Teen Escort service members charged with assault

[Kiwi]

http://http://news10now.com/content/all_news/?ArID=14770&SecID=83

By: Kristin Smith, News 10 Now Web Staff

Members of an escort service that transfers troubled teens to a North Country school for juveniles are accused of assaulting a child it was transporting.

Police say the 17-year-old boy's parents, from Red Hook, were disappointed when their son's grades slipped over recent months.

They say he had no prior record, but his parents decided to send him to the Academy at Ivy Ridge in Ogdensburg. They take in troubled teens.

The boy?s parents decided to get an escort service to drive him there.

?They had made arrangements with the people from Teen Escort to get him in the middle of the night when he was groggy, when he wouldn't really understand what was going on and probably wouldn't put up much resistance,? said James Hunt, New York State Police Department.

Police say the parents paid about two thousand dollars to have the Utah-based company take their child to the school, but Hunt says Teen Escort seems to be operating in gray areas of the law.
 
According to police, on March 22nd, 38-year-old Timothy Hurd and 24-year-old Leonard Faulstick handcuffed the teen, forced him into a vehicle, and started to drive.

Police say the three were on the thruway in the town of Canajoharie when the boy apparently reached over the front seat of the vehicle and pulled on the steering wheel, causing the car to crash into a guardrail.

Troopers took an accident report and let them go.

Police say the men then re-handcuffed the teen behind his back and beat him.

?We're not certain at this point in time just who in New York is regulating this industry. Whether in the schools, whether it's the Department of Education, whether it's the Department of Social Services, the police, the Attorney General?s Office, we don't know who's regulating this activity,? he said.

Hunt says Hurd and Faulstick are charged with unlawful imprisonment in the second degree and assault in the third degree.

Both are scheduled to appear in the Town of Canajoharie Court on April 2nd.

The boy is now back at home with his parents.

Hunt says Teen Escort is under investigation for poor regulation. Ivy Ridge is also under investigation due to claims of child abuse at the school.

The FBI is investigating. [ This Message was edited by: Kiwi on 2004-03-29 12:34 ]

[Anonymous]

Thank you Kiwi!!

[Troubled Turd]

They only assault those kids because they're acting out. WTF is the matter with you? Obviously the little miscreants needed to be subdued. What were they supposed to do? These kids will stoop to anything if it means that they can get back on DRUGS.  :flame:

[Anonymous]

Imagine the trauma this poor kid was subjected to as a result of his parents aiding and abetting in the abduction of their own child.  Nice going there, folks.  Think they might be entitled to a "refund" for services NOT rendered?  

 :roll:

[Anonymous]

Poor Kid?? Didn't he try to kill the driver in an attempt to escape?  What would you do if sometime tried to kill you?  Yes, anger got in the way of clear thinking...too bad.

[Antigen]

On 2004-03-29 11:32:00, Anonymous wrote:

What would you do if sometime tried to kill you?

Abandon the attempt to kidnap them and let them go. Of course, I wouldn't initiate an attempt to kidnap somebody, so I'll probably never be faced w/ such a problem.

If All it takes is an infinite number of monkeys with type writers, then how come there's no Shakespeare coming out of AOL?
-- Anonymous

[Troubled Turd]

And no doubt your kids will end up on drugs.

[Anonymous]

Oh please, the kid was being kidnapped.  How was he supposed to act?  Shame on the parents for hiring these people in the first place.  They could and should have transported their own child. Hopefully, this incident will wake up parents to the fact that *escorting" (sic) kids is no minor matter.

 :wave:

[Froderik]

Good story.  :tup:

[Anonymous]

ISAC ROCKS!!!! They're the best. Talk to them FIRST.

[Anonymous]

On 2004-03-29 11:32:00, Anonymous wrote:

"Poor Kid?? Didn't he try to kill the driver in an attempt to escape?  What would you do if sometime tried to kill you?  Yes, anger got in the way of clear thinking...too bad.   "

In an attempt to escape *from being kidnapped*---that's a normal human response.

My sympathy is *not* with the paid kidnappers.

Throw the book at the bastards.

[Troubled Turd]

But hell, all they wanted to do was help that youngin..  ::

[Anonymous]

Do you think the parents called for an escort because their son was out of their physical control and in order to get him to the school they had to do this.  Do you think it was an easy decision?  The kid proved to be too much for the escort.  Had the parents already shared with the escort service their son was likely to react this way?  If the parents didn't share this, then they would be at fault in some way.  Most of the teens don't react this way and in such a violent manner.  I doubt if this kid was that violent the Academy would have accepted him.  It really is up to the parents to be honest about the violence.  It is a WWASPS policy to not accept violent youth.  

Now, if someone tried to kill me for doing my job, and not having been there, I'm not sure I would have reacted any differently.  Being angry and scared at the same time got both of them into a dangerous situation.

[Troubled Turd]

Damn right!! The little bastard had it COMIN'!

Whip 'em! Whip their fuckin' little ASSES!  :flame:

[Anonymous]

On 2004-03-30 11:12:00, Turd Of Wisdumb wrote:

"Damn right!! The little bastard had it COMIN'!



Whip 'em! Whip their fuckin' little ASSES!  :flame: "

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