Police Investigate Child's Death At Group Home
POSTED: 10:44 am EDT September 13, 2004
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Police in Charlotte are looking into the death of a 12-year-old girl who was restrained for being unruly and violent at a group home for troubled children.
A police report says the girl stopped breathing after an employee at the Covenant Group Home restrained her.
Police declined to comment on the case Sunday except to say it remained a death investigation.
While it remains unclear what caused the girl's death, neighbors say they've worried about the group home on Snow Creek Lane for years and have tried to convince state officials to shut it down.
The home had attracted police calls before, neighbors said.
Neighbors say they have tracked more than 40 police calls to the home between 2000 and 2002, ranging from suicide attempts to fights to missing kids.
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I read this today and it breaks my heart. I am so sad. This poor girl, and all the others like her out there. Some times it really gets to me. I just wish I could take them, the kids that the parents don't want and dump in these places. This doesn't have to happen! There are so many people who would give anything to have a little girl to love and take care of. And these assholes do this. I can just imagine how scared she was being restrained...
Marika
What is this new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine or public housing, regards as heinous any challenge to what is called the system of private enterprise, identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete. The concept of loyalty as conformity is a false one. It is narrow and restrictive, denies freedom of thought and conscience... What do men know of loyalty who make a mockery of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights?
http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/unitarians/commager.html' target='_new'>Henry Steele Commager, 1947
