Check this out!!!

[Anonymous]

San Bernardino County Sun


Suit hits private school
Father claims his teen daughter imprisoned
By IRMA LEMUS
Staff Writer


Saturday, February 19, 2005 - RUNNING SPRINGS - The father of a girl who attended a private school is suing its operators, alleging false imprisonment of his daughter, violation of her rights to liberty and privacy, and false advertisement among other complaints.

In the lawsuit served on Cedu School on Thursday, George Locker of New York says his and his 14-year-old daughter's rights were violated when school officials blocked contact between them.

The girl, then 13, attended Cedu's middle school program and lived on the campus near Lake Arrowhead from August 2003 to January 2004.

Monetary damages were not specified in the civil lawsuit, filed Sept. 20 in Los Angeles Superior Court.

"Cedu deceives parents,' Locker said during a telephone interview from his home. "It holds itself up as this wonderful place and it's not. It's a despicable place.'

Locker said his daughter's mail was read by Cedu employees, his weekly phone calls to his daughter were screened by school officials and he was not allowed to visit his daughter often.

School policy allows for one monthly parental visit but parents cannot visit the school unannounced, Locker said.

He added that his daughter was treated like a prisoner because her every move was controlled by school officials.

"She still has nightmares and becomes extremely sad when she remembers her time there," Locker said.

He said his daughter was placed at the school without his consent by his former wife.

George Condas, vice president of operations for Cedu, declined to comment, saying school officials cannot comment on ongoing lawsuits.

Cedu has campuses throughout the country. Its Web site advertises it as being an "emotional growth school.'

The school houses teenagers with problems, ranging from drug and alcohol addiction to depression. A year's tuition at Cedu can run up to $60,000. High-profile students have included Paris Hilton, who attended a Cedu school for two months in 1997.

Cedu received media attention last year when student Wayne Yuen ran away from the local campus. He is still missing and has been spotted in the San Diego area.

In addition, a girl told sheriff's detectives that two students repeatedly raped her during a six-month period while at the school. The case is being investigated.

Locker said Cedu School officials kept him from talking to his daughter.

"It's a horrible feeling,' Locker said, "It's like when you go down to the mall and you realize your child isn't there by your side, and you get that gut feeling, and all you want to do is find your child. That's how I felt for four and a half months.'
 
**** The daughter is me!!!

[Anonymous]

soon other newspapers will be interested

[Anonymous]

prisons are despicable places, have you ever been there? maybe you have, hopefully, in that case your dumbass couldn't vote, peace. think of all those that have given their lives in such a noble manner so that you and your rich parents can fuck up the world. open your eyes to the bigger picture.

[Anonymous]

oh ya also members of this site have called into question many, many times the motivations/reliability of parents. who is to say that this parent in question that is raising allegations is any different, he/she could just be out to make a quick buck. you can write me off if you want but maybe you guys should start to think for yourselves and stop blaming the albeit flawed system. and yes albeit is a word buy a dictionary.

[Antigen]

There are just so many quicker, easier ways to make money. No, I doubt seriously that any parent is going to the trouble of suing anyone for abusing their kid just for the money.

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
-- Dave Barry

[Anonymous]

Quicker, easier ways of making money than fraud? Like what, other than maybe selling crack, I can't think of any.

Oh, ya by the way dave barry is always right, huh?

I have met many a woman that would dive after flyball or a stray cock if it pays well, even if their own kid were at risk.

If you think cedu is so screwed up try pulling your head out of your ass and take a look at the world around you.

I think I have some hairy gum stuck to my pants, come suck it off for me I can't reach.

[Antigen]

Ask anybody who's actually ever tried to sue for any kind of abuse. It's not like ordering a pizza. It's a brutal process. You open yourself up to what is known as the discovery process. Take into account that the victims in these cases are kids w/ more than their fair share of credibility issues to begin w/ and you can begin to imagine what that might be like.

It sucks, quite frankly! I wouldn't recomend it to anyone unless they've carefully considered the process and all alternatives and still feel compelled to do it.

The cover story just doesn't wash, buddy. CEDU people talk out of both sides of their mouths. While they have the kids and parents under their control, they preach the party line that all bad things that happen to you are your fault and all good things that happen are due to your excellence at working the program.

Well CEDU is constantly being accused of abusing kids and defrauding their parents. But when it's their turn to get called out, they cry and whine and about the evil outsiders conspiring to take them down. :cry2:

Go cry on someone else's shoulder. If this guy and his daughter are willing to take CEDU to task, more power to them! It's not going to be easy, and I think they know that. But hopefully it'll do some good.

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.
--Thomas Paine

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[Anonymous]

ya, i'm crying boohoo. you are all a bunch of sissy whiners who can't deal with their own lives.

[Anonymous]

On 2005-03-02 23:26:00, Anonymous wrote:

"ya, i'm crying boohoo. you are all a bunch of sissy whiners who can't deal with their own lives."

and all you do is come here and whine about us.
you seriously need to get a life.

[Anonymous]

and you need to get an education

[Anonymous]

cedu was supposed to give me one.  so if you consider me uneducated, it's because cedu never delivered what they were paid for.  
how typical.

[Anonymous]

Lawsuits are a huge emotional, financial and time burden.  But sometimes there is no other way.  

Limits on phone calls, mail and visits at CEDU is unlawful in California.  Period.

Kids have to be permitted a visit to CEDU before enrollment.  Thus, use of escorts to enroll kids is prohibited.  Period.  

In February, CEDU was served with multiple violations by the state of California, Community Care Licensing Division,  (which licenses CEDU).  

CEDU will have to change its ways or CEDU's license will be revoked.

[Anonymous]

once again only you are responsible for you, take it upon yourself to educate yourself. for example, all the best instruction in the world cannot make you a better skier, or teacher, or scientist, artist, you have to push your own limits. do the best with what you have. even though we had a library how many of you actually read a book from it.

goddamn it there is no use, you are lost i hope that maybe someday some one in your lives inspires you to do better than what you think you can.

i would like to know what specific law mandates to requirements you stated in that post, because your parents signed them all away when they enrolled you. no wonder you were sent you are still a self entitled brat.

[Anonymous]

and you are a fool.

[Anonymous]

The whole point is that parents cannot sign away rights guaranteed to the child by the state.  Group Homes (CEDU is a group home) are highly regulated.  Go to the website for California Community Care Licensing, see the regulations for Group Homes, 22 CCR 84072 "Personal Rights".