On 2005-04-30 19:16:00, D?
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"just picked up my boy from Darrington Acadamy.....he saw us came out crying....and we left I just got back and ....i feel much better ....and he to
thanks peeps for giving me some feedback here !!! "
Will you please call Georgia Department of Family and Children's Services (DFACS) and tell them what happened to your son there, and follow it up with a letter for their files?
It's really important, for the sake of other children, to start building a paper trail track record on these facilities as soon as possible. Darrington is in Blue Ridge, which is in Fannin County, if I'm correct.
If they aren't sure if a law was broken, you may want to tell them you've since found out an organization their key people are strongly associated with, WWASPS, has a record of a lot of allegations of abuse and usually says the kids are lying, and that you would like your experience to go in their file so that when they get an abuse complaint (and I personally believe there will be complaints) they will have your contact information and your account in helping to corroborate the background details of the complaint from your own experience.
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Fannin County Department of Family and Children Services
990 E. Main, Suite 10
Blue Ridge, GA, 30513
(706) 632-2296
Brenda Crawford
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If you feel Darrington's services were misrepresented to you, will you please also send a letter saying so, with a copy of your DFACS letter attached, to the attorney general of the state of Georgia?
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Office of the Attorney General of Georgia
Thurbert E. Baker
40 Capital Square, SW
Atlanta, GA 30334
404-656-3300
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I'm a voter in Georgia and I don't want WWASPS seminars and the other harm they do, in my opinion, allegedly (ahem) allegedly, going on in my home state.
I know you're in the middle of a family crisis right now, but it could really help other kids for DFCS and the GA Attorney General's office to know you were dissatisfied with Darrington, and why.
Darrington just opened up here, and it is important that they not be able to create the illusion of a track record with lots and lots of satisfied parents and no problems. It's important that dissatisfied parents start letting the local authorities know what their experience was, even if you don't think any laws were broken, from the very beginning.
That way, when someone else complains, and maybe they will have experienced something that breaks the laws, and their reports of their experience substantially tallies with your reports of your experience and you're child's experience, then the facility has a much harder time *credibly* saying that the other kid and his parents are lying.
It's a bit like building a case against someone for sexual harrassment or child molestation (strictly for example--not alleging this about Darrington)---establishing a pattern is important, whether the laws were provably, actionably breached in your "pattern" witnesses' cases or not. Establishing the pattern bolsters the case when you actually get the complaint you can take into court.
It's very important that even if you don't think you have a provable case, you contact DFCS and the AG's office. Tell them that from what you now know of the organization, you expect it will be only a matter of time before they will have a case, and that you want to make yourself and your son available to them to help in establishing the pattern for *that* case when and if (but I believe when) it arises down the road.
Thank you in advance, so much, for doing this.
It just breaks my heart that these people have set up shop here in Georgia.
Timoclea