We would like to make an entry because sometime the conditions the teenagers are forced to live under is cruel. The Mountain Park Academy Murder was a tragic result of a toxic environment. Maybe the same can be said about the incident below.
Investigators: Deltona group home teens planned to kill staff workerBy Patricio G. Balona, The Daytona Beach News Journal, March 28, 2012Three teenage girls living in a group home are accused of threatening to kill a staff worker for taking away their telephone privileges, Volusia County sheriff's investigators said.
Bailey Vandyne, 24, who could not be reached Tuesday, told deputies the girls - two 15 years old and one 13 -- confronted her about 9 p.m. Monday at
the Choices Group Home, 2537 Courtland Blvd., after a day at the beach.
Vandyne, a staff worker at the home, was preparing to make dinner when the chaos broke out, arrest reports show.
The disturbance, which led to the discovery of the plan to kill Vandyne, started after the girls got mad at her for taking away their telephone privileges, sheriff's investigators said.
The girls became agitated and started overturning furniture and one armed herself with a garden trowel with a 6-inch blade, deputies said. Vandyne locked herself in a bedroom.
A fourth teenager who did not get involved reported the trio said they were "going to beat (Vandyne) to death when she walked out of her office" or to get her "when she comes in our room to do our checkups tonight," arrest reports show.
The teens - Christina Beckner and Quandaleesha Johnson, both 15; and Marliesia Ortiz, 13 -- were charged with conspiracy to commit murder. Beckner and Ortiz also were charged with criminal mischief, and Johnson was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, said sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught.
The News-Journal is naming the girls because of the severity of the charges.
The teenager who told deputies about the plot to kill Vandyne said the girls wanted Vandyne to come out of her room so one could jump on her and snap her neck. And if that did not kill Vandyne, then another teen would stab her with the trowel, reports state.
After Vandyne locked herself in her bedroom, the girls started acting out, screaming loudly and throwing objects against the door, trying to coax Vandyne to come out, according to reports.
After deputies arrived, the teens were interviewed, and hurled profanities at the deputies and Vandyne, saying she made up the story, investigators said.
After inconsistencies in their stories and continued interrogation, the 13-year-old said Vandyne deserved a "payback," while one of the 15-year-olds said they came up with the plan to "get back" at Vandyne.
The teenagers said they planned to kill Vandayne and also threatened to kill the fourth teenager if she refused to drive them to a nearby park, where they planned to bury Vandyne, investigators said.
The teens were taken to the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Daytona Beach, Haught said.
Vandyne is a staff worker at the group home, said Karin Flositz, Chief of Quality Assurance and Contractual Services for Community Partnership for Children in Daytona Beach.
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Another headline: Why are these minors named? They are not convicted yet and everyone seem to think that the actions of the court will be a rubber-stamp.
THREE TEENS CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDERVolusia County Sheriff Office, The Daily News, March 27, 2012Angry at their treatment, three teenage girls living in a group home in Deltona are facing some extremely serious criminal charges after they were accused Monday night of plotting to kill their house parent. The plot wasn’t put into action, and the intended victim wasn’t harmed.
Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the group home on Courtland Boulevard in response to a 911 call at 9:26 p.m. A total of four teenage girls live at the home, but one wasn’t involved in the plot. The other three --
Christina Beckner and
Quandaleesha Johnson, both 15, and 13-year-old
Marliesia Ortiz -- were reported to be out of control, turning over furniture and throwing things around the house. And one of the girls, Johnson, was twirling a small garden shovel. The 24-year-old house parent, in fear for her safety, locked herself in her room. The girls, apparently angry at the house rules and for being disciplined by having their phone privileges revoked, started screaming and throwing objects at the bedroom door in an effort to coax the house parent out of the room. According to investigators, the three had hatched a scheme to lure the victim out of her room and then jump on her back and snap her neck. If that didn’t kill her, they were going to stab her with the blade on the garden shovel and then dump her body in a park.
The girl who wasn’t involved overheard the plot and revealed it to deputies. During interviews with deputies, two of the girls were uncooperative and kept changing their stories. But eventually, details of the plan came out during questioning. One of the girls said she wanted to get back at the house parent because she didn’t think it was fair that she had the authority to make up the house rules. Deputies charged all three girls with conspiracy to commit murder. Additionally, Beckner and Ortiz were charged with criminal mischief and Johnson was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. All three were transported to the Volusia Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Daytona Beach.
