Posted June 17, 2004 3:57 PM.
hattisburgamerican.com
Bethel accepts teenagers
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Two new girls arrived at Bethel Girls Academy this week, almost a month after 38 teenagers were removed from the facility by state officials.
?They arrived here on Tuesday and have been going through orientation,? said Herman Fountain Jr., director of the academy. ?We have been getting calls every day from parents who want to send their children here.?
Fountain said one of the girls is from Washington and the other is from Georgia.
On May 19, officials with the Mississippi Department of Human Service and the Mississippi Department of Health removed all 38 residents of the Bethel home, citing allegations of abuse, but the home was never ordered to close its doors.