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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Anonymous on June 16, 2006, 03:31:00 PM

Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 16, 2006, 03:31:00 PM
Just 7 years old, little Angellika Arndt is the latest victim in a long saga of preventable deaths at the hands of child care givers.

http://www.teenadvocatesusa.org/AngellikaArndt.html (http://www.teenadvocatesusa.org/AngellikaArndt.html)
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 17, 2006, 02:47:00 AM
http://caica.org/DEATHS%20Angie%20Main%20Page.htm (http://caica.org/DEATHS%20Angie%20Main%20Page.htm)
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 17, 2006, 03:02:00 AM
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On 2006-06-16 23:50:00, Three Springs Waygookin wrote:

"Another innocent lost to the beating drums of the advocate propganda mills.



How much money you sorry tossers gonna make off this little girl?




How much money did you make,"taking down" children in your job at the program?
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: BSarro on June 17, 2006, 01:07:00 PM
These Foster parents are so upset. It was not their natural child. Boy, do these people have issues.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Deborah on June 17, 2006, 01:53:00 PM
But escorts and program staff, who are also not the natural parents, do?

Appears that these fosters parents have one up on the idustry sadists, they genuinely care and were upset about the death of the child.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: AtomicAnt on June 17, 2006, 02:19:00 PM
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On 2006-06-17 10:07:00, BSarro wrote:

"These Foster parents are so upset. It was not their natural child. Boy, do these people have issues."


You really are a sick bastard. Any caring adult would be upset by this child's death. I'm upset by it. Foster parents would have grown to love this child. Of course they would be devastated by the loss.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 17, 2006, 02:24:00 PM
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On 2006-06-17 11:19:00, AtomicAnt wrote:


You really are a sick bastard. Any caring adult would be upset by this child's death. I'm upset by it. Foster parents would have grown to love this child. Of course they would be devastated by the loss."


 ::troll::  ::troll::  ::troll:: especially the obvious ones :roll:
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 17, 2006, 09:26:00 PM
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On 2006-06-17 05:51:00, Three Springs Waygookin wrote:

"624 dollars after taxes every two weeks.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time, and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

--Thomas Carlyle

"


I made more when I worked for Burger King... at least we got free food and could smoke out.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 17, 2006, 09:50:00 PM
Really. If you're going to be a professional child abuser, you can at least get paid what you're worth.

Oh wait, that's nothing... never mind.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 17, 2006, 10:46:00 PM
Let's not get to far off the topic the point he makes is how far you are going to take this issue of the child's death in regards to it increasing your bank balance.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 18, 2006, 05:58:00 PM
Quote
On 2006-06-17 05:51:00, Three Springs Waygookin wrote:

"624 dollars after taxes every two weeks.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time, and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

--Thomas Carlyle

"


go 3 springs! Dont let them intimidate you into silence
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 18, 2006, 06:31:00 PM
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On 2006-06-17 18:50:00, Anonymous wrote:

"Really. If you're going to be a professional child abuser, you can at least get paid what you're worth.



Oh wait, that's nothing... never mind."


Why are you focusing your hatred on 3 springs anon? Everyone in program did pretty evil things its a system that forces that on people. If you were there and you didnt lead some form of revolution you undoubtedly did as well

why are you focusing you hatred on 3 springs when hes coming out and describing what he saw and partook in? Why do you want to shut someone down who is coming foward with the abuse? Dont you see the catch 22 people in his position are in?

Either they keep silent & the abuse continues or they come foward and get attacked. Either people walk away from these facilites immediately and the full abuse is never known or they stay involved and speaking the truth puts them in deadly peril.

This is why so many people stay silent. It is exceptionally brave for 3 springs to come foward. Braver then if he had initially walked away since now he is vulnerable.

But you know this right? You are attacking him to keep him silent

Your not against child abuse you are against your facility being exposed for its child abuse
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 18, 2006, 06:44:00 PM
Wow, that's the first time I've been misidentified as a programmie.

I was making a general statement. TSW is more than capable of looking out for himself. He's already getting hammered much worse than that in another thread, anyway.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Curious & Willing to on June 22, 2006, 07:35:00 PM
This topic is SICK, a 7 year old. Geez :flame:
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 22, 2006, 11:59:00 PM
And the most recent in a long line of restraint deaths by this industry that gets by on little more than excuses, stupidity, and desperation.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 23, 2006, 12:18:00 AM
Who's trying to intimidate TSW into silence? He made the stupid statement about advocates making money. They merely posted the article about this child.
TSW has posted he seems to believe face-slapping and belt-whipping was OK discipline; and most people disgree and view such discipline as abusive.
Hitting children is wrong.
Advocates posting current news is not a money-making event. So why TSW's constant digs?
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2006, 05:52:00 PM
According to the latest news report, Angellika Arndt was restrained to death because she was "Gargling" milk.  Plus, according to an AP report, she was restrained a total of 9 times.

http://teenadvocatesusa.org/AngellikaArndt.html (http://teenadvocatesusa.org/AngellikaArndt.html)

 :sad:
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2006, 06:04:00 PM
Another child dies from face-down restraint
On May 26, 2006, 7-year old Angellika Arndt was
restrained by counselors at the Rice Lake Day
Treatment Center. The medical examiner ruled
the girl died from complications of chest
compression asphyxia report said.

UPDATE: Angellika died a day after being restrained by employees at Rice Lake, Wisconsin. She attended the program five days a week and during that time she was placed in a so-called "control hold" because she was "gargling milk", according to a report by state health officials. One mom asked, "Where is the utrage?"

http://caica.org/DEATHS%20Angie%20Main%20Page.htm (http://caica.org/DEATHS%20Angie%20Main%20Page.htm)

There's a list of kids who died in restraints:
http://caica.org/RESTRAINTS%20Death%20List.htm (http://caica.org/RESTRAINTS%20Death%20List.htm)

Read Countdown to Justice - there's a good point made there that if a parent restrained their child for two hours for gargling milk and the child died, they'd end up in jail. These people need to be held to the same standard as the parents.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2006, 06:06:00 PM
Countdown to Justice (forgot to put the link)
http://caica.org/NEWS%20DEATHS%20MARTIN ... 20days.htm (http://caica.org/NEWS%20DEATHS%20MARTIN%20138%20days.htm)
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2006, 10:37:00 PM
God I can't believe how out of control this shit is.  WTF is WRONG with people???  They get away with doing it to teens because its easy to write them off as defiant, rebellious etc., but this is insane.

Gargling milk. :flame:  :flame:  :flame:  :flame:  :flame:  :flame:  :flame:  :flame:  :flame:  :flame:  :flame:  :flame:
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2006, 11:43:00 PM
The Medical Examiner ruled this little girl's death a homicide; yet the District Attorney can't decide until mid July whether or not to charge anyone with murder? What the hell is wrong here?
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 02:26:00 AM
Anyone else find this rather strange?

Teenadvocates started this thread, and then immediately the SAME POSTING is done by CAICA.

Then Teenadvocates posted the information about "garling milk" and I'll be darn if CAICA didn't immediately POST THE EXACT SAME information.

What the heck is IZZY doing? Proving again that she just can't have one original thought in her pea brain?
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Nihilanthic on June 25, 2006, 04:04:00 AM
making a buck for herself and sue scheff because joyce pissed her off?

 :roll: fuck if I know, thats my best guess.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 01:21:00 PM
A couple of things. I look at all the sites out there and I can tell you that Izzie certainly doesn't need to go to teen advocate's site - she does just fine on her own.

Have you lost your minds, tit for tat on a thread about a little girl who died? Save it for people who care - do this on yor own time becasue others are tired of your jealosy here.

about this article. Nah, Izzy had it up just after it happend, had a nice  page just for the little girl, an dhas had it on the front page for a while. So get over it.

ANd who the fuck cares so long as the story gets out:? Just grow up here it is unblievably annoying to have to listen to your crap.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 01:34:00 PM
:tup:
Stop it already.
The information needs to be on as many websites as possible, and no one owns the information. It's public. Ya think Barbe hasn't taken info from Fornits? Further, if another site posted a death first, ya think Barbe wouldn't post it as well? Your ridiculous campaign is getting old.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 01:37:00 PM
Bullshit Anon - "Izzie" is an admitted PURE supporter. She lists them on her helpful resources webpage and PURE lists CAICA on theirs. Self-explanatory, I'd say, but then again, some people believe ONLY what their lying eyes tell them.

 :wink: (wink, wink, nod, nod)
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 01:38:00 PM
Oh, by the way, why doesn't Barbe ever post about WWASP? Anybody else ever notice that?
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 01:50:00 PM
TAUSA is not a watchdog group but provides links to ISAC, FICA, CAFETY and others that do that kind of admirable work which is more than you can say for CAICA.

HOLY THE CHILDREN has been online since TAUSA started and is not a DEATH LIST.  It's a memorial.

Good article on E-Referral Services you might be interested in Anon.  

http://www.teenadvocaesusa.org/Troubled ... ustry.html (http://www.teenadvocaesusa.org/TroubledTeenIndustry.html)

 :wave:
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 01:53:00 PM
http://www.teenadvocatesusa.org/Trouble ... ustry.html (http://www.teenadvocatesusa.org/TroubledTeenIndustry.html)
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 02:19:00 PM
you don't make sense here,  barbe has a list of deaths on her site. besides, the list of deaths may just be a good way to wake people up. Don't you get it? It's not supposed to be all touchy=feely. the idea is to get the point across that kids are dying, at leaset that's what i get out of it. (the one on CAICA, I mean ) You can tell lots of work went into it with articles and reports. I use the list a lot for research so for me it's been good.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 03:03:00 PM
Yea, don't get all "touchy-feely" about someone's dead child. That might be too much to ask.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Joyce Harris on June 25, 2006, 03:27:00 PM
Niles, I don't know why I supposedly "pissed off Isabelle at CAICA."
I emailed Isabelle and asked her to post Cheryl Sudweeks's criminal trial date on HER Whitmore thread on CAICA (which was posted at the time), and she agreed.
Isabelle asked me for copies of the Whitmore civil and criminal court records to post on CAIICA.
I voiced my dislike of Isabelle posting minor children's names on court documents on CAICA.
Isbelled gave me a list of names of people who SHE SAID also posted minor children's names. I contacted EACH OF THESE PEOPLE--and each said that they DID NOT POST MINOR CHILDREN's names without the parent's permission or direction.
AT THIS POINT, when I corrected Isabelle: she publicly accused me of harrassment, and SHE LIED and said that I requested that she remove Whitmore from her website.
That is a lie.
Isabelle said she was was removing Whitmore from CAICA...I did not ask her to remove it.
I think this is very unfair to the victims in the criminal and the civil cases; and I think it is a great injustice to any parents who may be considering placing their children at Whitmore Academy in such potential danger.
If this "pissed Isabelle off," then so be it.
No one asked me to contact Isabelle at CAICA...I was simply asking to have a court date posted.
Isabelle is aware that the parents at Whitmore Academy were referred to that facility by Sue Sceff of PURE, because I told her.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 03:38:00 PM
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On 2006-06-25 12:27:00, Joyce Harris wrote:

"Niles, I don't know why I supposedly "pissed off Isabelle at CAICA."

I emailed Isabelle and asked her to post Cheryl Sudweeks's criminal trial date on HER Whitmore thread on CAICA (which was posted at the time), and she agreed.

Isabelle asked me for copies of the Whitmore civil and criminal court records to post on CAIICA.

I voiced my dislike of Isabelle posting minor children's names on court documents on CAICA.

Isbelled gave me a list of names of people who SHE SAID also posted minor children's names. I contacted EACH OF THESE PEOPLE--and each said that they DID NOT POST MINOR CHILDREN's names without the parent's permission or direction.

AT THIS POINT, when I corrected Isabelle: she publicly accused me of harrassment, and SHE LIED and said that I requested that she remove Whitmore from her website.

That is a lie.

Isabelle said she was was removing Whitmore from CAICA...I did not ask her to remove it.

I think this is very unfair to the victims in the criminal and the civil cases; and I think it is a great injustice to any parents who may be considering placing their children at Whitmore Academy in such potential danger.

If this "pissed Isabelle off," then so be it.

No one asked me to contact Isabelle at CAICA...I was simply asking to have a court date posted.

Isabelle is aware that the parents at Whitmore Academy were referred to that facility by Sue Sceff of PURE, because I told her."


Check the Fornits archives for a statement by Cathy Sutton (Michelle Sutton Memorial Fund) on this very topic.  Seems she also had a similiar situation with Isabelle/CAICA and PURE.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 03:45:00 PM
Seems IZZY will lie to and about anyone.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Nihilanthic on June 25, 2006, 03:55:00 PM
Quote
On 2006-06-25 12:27:00, Joyce Harris wrote:

"Niles, I don't know why I supposedly "pissed off Isabelle at CAICA."

I emailed Isabelle and asked her to post Cheryl Sudweeks's criminal trial date on HER Whitmore thread on CAICA (which was posted at the time), and she agreed.

Isabelle asked me for copies of the Whitmore civil and criminal court records to post on CAIICA.

I voiced my dislike of Isabelle posting minor children's names on court documents on CAICA.

Isbelled gave me a list of names of people who SHE SAID also posted minor children's names. I contacted EACH OF THESE PEOPLE--and each said that they DID NOT POST MINOR CHILDREN's names without the parent's permission or direction.

AT THIS POINT, when I corrected Isabelle: she publicly accused me of harrassment, and SHE LIED and said that I requested that she remove Whitmore from her website.

That is a lie.

Isabelle said she was was removing Whitmore from CAICA...I did not ask her to remove it.

I think this is very unfair to the victims in the criminal and the civil cases; and I think it is a great injustice to any parents who may be considering placing their children at Whitmore Academy in such potential danger.

If this "pissed Isabelle off," then so be it.

No one asked me to contact Isabelle at CAICA...I was simply asking to have a court date posted.

Isabelle is aware that the parents at Whitmore Academy were referred to that facility by Sue Sceff of PURE, because I told her."


Joyce, I was not blaming you for Izzy's retarded behavior. Lots of people get angry if you call them on thier bullshit.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 25, 2006, 03:56:00 PM
Quote
On 2006-06-25 12:38:00, Anonymous wrote:

"
Quote

On 2006-06-25 12:27:00, Joyce Harris wrote:


"Niles, I don't know why I supposedly "pissed off Isabelle at CAICA."


I emailed Isabelle and asked her to post Cheryl Sudweeks's criminal trial date on HER Whitmore thread on CAICA (which was posted at the time), and she agreed.


Isabelle asked me for copies of the Whitmore civil and criminal court records to post on CAIICA.


I voiced my dislike of Isabelle posting minor children's names on court documents on CAICA.


Isbelled gave me a list of names of people who SHE SAID also posted minor children's names. I contacted EACH OF THESE PEOPLE--and each said that they DID NOT POST MINOR CHILDREN's names without the parent's permission or direction.


AT THIS POINT, when I corrected Isabelle: she publicly accused me of harrassment, and SHE LIED and said that I requested that she remove Whitmore from her website.


That is a lie.


Isabelle said she was was removing Whitmore from CAICA...I did not ask her to remove it.


I think this is very unfair to the victims in the criminal and the civil cases; and I think it is a great injustice to any parents who may be considering placing their children at Whitmore Academy in such potential danger.


If this "pissed Isabelle off," then so be it.


No one asked me to contact Isabelle at CAICA...I was simply asking to have a court date posted.


Isabelle is aware that the parents at Whitmore Academy were referred to that facility by Sue Sceff of PURE, because I told her."




Check the Fornits archives for a statement by Cathy Sutton (Michelle Sutton Memorial Fund) on this very topic.  Seems she also had a similiar situation with Isabelle/CAICA and PURE. "


http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... 01&forum=9 (http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?topic=15601&forum=9)

Isabelle posted a private email without permission, on her CAICA's CORNER webpage.

I don't think Cathy Sutton is affiliated in any way with CAICA as a result of that and the PURE connection, at least that's my memory of the situation.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 26, 2006, 12:24:00 AM
No child should be restrained like little Angie was.  My God, she was 100% defenseless then and now with the D.A. debating whether to bring charges in a homicide. Gargling milk should not be a death sentence for anyone, much less a 7 year old girl.

TAUSA has links to view little Angie's photo album and light a candle in her memory.  She was a precious little girl and it's nice her family is sharing their memories of her because otherwise all people would know is the story of her death, not her life, short as it was.

Utter and completely senseless tragedy!  Like all restraint-related deaths.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 26, 2006, 12:27:00 AM
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On 2006-06-25 21:24:00, Anonymous wrote:

"No child should be restrained like little Angie was.  My God, she was 100% defenseless then and now with the D.A. debating whether to bring charges in a homicide. Gargling milk should not be a death sentence for anyone, much less a 7 year old girl.



TAUSA has links to view little Angie's photo album and light a candle in her memory.  She was a precious little girl and it's nice her family is sharing their memories of her because otherwise all people would know is the story of her death, not her life, short as it was.



Utter and completely senseless tragedy!  Like all restraint-related deaths.





sorry, here's the link:

http://teenadvocatesusa.org/AngellikaArndt.html (http://teenadvocatesusa.org/AngellikaArndt.html)

Voices For Angie
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on June 26, 2006, 04:59:00 PM
:wave:
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on November 30, 2006, 05:07:27 PM
November 30, 2006

DA says criminal charges will be filed in girl's death

A homicide charge is expected to be filed in the next week against Northwest Guidance and Counseling Clinic for the death of 7-year old Angellika Arndt.

A misdemeanor negligent patient abuse charge will also be filed against Bradley Ridout, 29, of 20 E. Evans St., Rice Lake, said Barron County District Attorney Angela Holmstrom this Wednesday morning.

The maximum penalty for a homicide conviction against the corporation would be a $100,000 fine. The maximum penalty for the negligent abuse conviction is up to a $10,000 fine and/or up to 9 months? imprisonment.

The clinic operated the now- defunct Rice Lake Day Treatment Center, where Angellika was a client.

On May 25, Angellika was in a control hold administered by Ridout at the center when she became unconscious.

Angellika was airlifted to Children?s Hospital in Minneapolis, where she died the following day. The medical examiner ruled her death was caused by complications of chest compression asphyxiation leading to cardiopulmonary arrest while restrained by another person.

The clinic, headquartered in Frederic, provides intensive intervention and preventative mental health services for youths.

Holmstrom said assistant attorney general William Hanrahan plans to file the homicide charge against the clinic.

Clinic board president Denison Tucker recently informed the state?s Department of Health and Family Services that the clinic would not re-open the Rice Lake center following its state-imposed 6-month suspension.

The state suspended its funding following an investigation after Angellika?s death that led to multiple violations, including the proper use of control holds, at the center.

In a letter to the state dated Nov. 10, Tucker wrote, ?The public scrutiny, although understandable, would place the program under an onerous set of public expectations for perfection.?

In a letter to Tucker dated Nov. 14, DHFS director Otis Woods informed Tucker that a state-imposed plan of corrections must be followed at its 12 other sites.

?We continue to be concerned with the number of control holds within the NWGCC system,? Woods wrote.  

http://www.chronotype.com/newarticle.as ... leID=11243 (http://www.chronotype.com/newarticle.asp?T=L&ArticleID=11243)
http://angellika-arndt.memory-of.com/ (http://angellika-arndt.memory-of.com/)
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on November 30, 2006, 05:24:06 PM
How the fuck can they leave any of this clinic's branches open after this? Why didn't Otis Woods start systematically shutting it down, period, and let the vaccuum get filled by people who aren't sick fucks? Who wants to bet that the regulations he's going to impose on the 12 other branches are going to accomplish diddly jack shit?

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In a letter to the state dated Nov. 10, Tucker wrote, ?The public scrutiny, although understandable, would place the program under an onerous set of public expectations for perfection.?


Die, Denison Tucker. Fucking die. Stick a loaded shotgun under your chin, pump it, and squeeze the trigger with your big toe. The only thing the public expects is for mental health clinics not to kill seven-year-old girls for gargling milk, you piece of shit.

Oh yeah I fucking love the sentence they're going to be handing Bradley Ridout, assuming the jury has any brains in their heads and the judge can't up the maximum. Ten thousand bucks and nine months for killing her. Good job, assholes, why not just pull out the WristSlapper Deluxe and call it a day? Even the guards who killed that kid in Florida got aggravated manslaughter. This is at least second-degree murder.

I'm not going to mince words. I hope one of Angie's family members waits until his day in court and fucking Jack Ruby's him right there. SURPRISE! Then they can give him a slap on the wrist instead.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on December 01, 2006, 09:29:35 PM
December 1, 2006

Restraint death charges filed
Counseling center, staffer accused of negligence in death of girl, 7, in Rice Lake, Wis.

BY KEVIN HARTER
Pioneer Press

Six months after 7-year-old Angellika "Angie" Arndt died after being restrained at a Rice Lake, Wis., counseling center, prosecutors filed negligence charges Thursday against the facility and a staff member.

Northwest Counseling and Guidance Clinic, the Frederic-based corporation that owns and operates the Rice Lake center, was charged in Barron County Circuit Court with negligent abuse of a resident, a felony. Staff member Bradley A. Ridout was charged with negligent abuse of a patient causing bodily harm, a misdemeanor.

Prosecutors allege a number of failures by the firm, such as faulty training and not consulting medical records. Prosecutors accuse Ridout of improperly restraining Angie.

"From the time of her admission to the time of her death, there had been numerous acts and omissions by employees of the facility that had compromised Angie's safety," John Knappmiller, chief investigator for the Wisconsin Department of Justice, said in charging papers.

Angie died May 26, the day after she was held down at the center until she was blue and listless, according to court documents. The girl, who had attended the clinic's day treatment center five days a week for a month for behavioral problems, had been restrained on nine separate occasions, according to a state investigative report.

"This was not an accident or mishap," Rick Pelishek, the Rice Lake-based regional director of Disability Rights Wisconsin, said after learning of Thursday's charges.

"I think it is an important first step in holding the organization accountable for their actions, and correcting the problems that have existed for years," he said. Disability Rights Wisconsin is a nonprofit watchdog group that earlier recommended the Rice Lake center be closed.

Ridout, 29, of Rice Lake, could not be reached for comment.

Jill Chafee, the clinic's executive director, said Thursday she has been on maternity leave and declined to comment on the suit. Clinic president Denison Tucker did not return a phone call.

Angie, an active girl who liked dolls, dresses and country music, was born in Milwaukee. Her parents relinquished their rights to her as a toddler and she became a ward of the state. She had been in and out of foster care before Donna and Daniel Pavlik took her into their Ladysmith home in early 2005.

The couple said they never restrained her and believed they were making progress with the girl, who, according to a state report, had been diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder, mood disorder and attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder.

Donna Pavlik declined to comment on the charges.

The Rice Lake clinic had its license suspended by the state and was closed after Angie's death. According to the charges filed Thursday, it failed to follow a treatment plan for Angie and used improperly taught and administered restraint on the 56-pound girl.

According to the charges:

? When the Rice Lake center admitted Angie, staff failed to review her medical and psychological records.

? Essential staff failed to consult a prepared treatment plan for Angie before treating her.

? Insufficient guidance was provided staff in the proper implementation of the facility's highly ambiguous written restraint policy.

? Inconsistent policy inadequately defined what circumstances required restraint.

? The "emergency" restraint policy became justification for almost daily physical restraint of Angie.


"The staff member that was responsible for the training of all staff in proper restraint techniques, Mr. Tim McIntyre, had, himself, never actually received any appropriate training," the charging papers said. "Rather, the methods that McIntyre taught were self-devised and substandard, including his use of the face-down-on-the-floor-hold used on Angie on the day of her death."

Ridout, charged because he was the last employee to apply the "restraint technique" used by the center, was called to assist another employee already restraining Angie. He covered her upper torso with his own, and held the head of the crying, thrashing girl, according to court documents. After about 30 minutes she became calm, and Ridout believed she had fallen asleep, the criminal complaint said.

He then noticed she was "bluish" and "non-responsive." After attempts to revive her failed, an ambulance was called and she was taken to a Rice Lake hospital and from there airlifted to Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, where she was pronounced dead.

The Hennepin County medical examiner ruled her death a homicide caused by "complications of chest compression asphyxiation" leading to "cardiopulmonary arrest while restrained by another person."

A criminal investigation into her death was launched by Rice Lake police, Barron County prosecutors and the state Justice Department. Assistant Attorney General William E. Hanrahan filed the charge against the company, while Barron County District Attorney Angela L. Holmstrom charged Ridout.

The corporation faces up to a $100,000 fine if convicted and Ridout a $10,000 fine and nine months in prison.

Corporate officials, who include its board of directors, and Ridout are scheduled to make their first court appearance at 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Tucker, the clinic's president, last week notified the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services that the Rice Lake facility would remain closed after the state said it had not made the changes needed to reopen. The clinic is one of 12 operated by Northwest.

Two clinics in Hudson and New Richmond, which have a similar name ? Northwest Counseling Services ? are not part of Northwest Counseling and Guidance.

Jennifer Bjorhus contributed to this report.

Kevin Harter can be reached at kharter@pioneer press.com or 800-950-9080, ext. 2149.


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Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on December 01, 2006, 09:48:27 PM
Forgot to extend my apologies to MGDP for being the bearer of such fucked up news as this latest update.  Not sure what the answer is but clearly killing kids in the name of "therapy" should be criminalized not excused (ignorance is not an excuse people!!!).  I'm also fucking sick and tired of defenseless victims being blamed for their own suffocation deaths until (A) autopsy results prove otherwise (B) the killing is caught on video surveillance.  


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Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: psy on December 02, 2006, 12:23:33 AM
Quote from: ""Guest""
Forgot to extend my apologies to MGDP for being the bearer of such fucked up news as this latest update.  Not sure what the answer is but clearly killing kids in the name of "therapy" should be criminalized not excused (ignorance is not an excuse people!!!).  I'm also fucking sick and tired of defenseless victims being blamed for their own suffocation deaths until (A) autopsy results prove otherwise (B) the killing is caught on video surveillance.  


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Given that people do die in program, how often is a camera there?  How many times might have things been brushed under the rug as "natural causes" by dodgy...

WHAT THE FUCK.  A FINE.  A GODDAMNED FINE!!!!! and a MISDEMEANOR!!!

You know what. I actually agree with milk's extreme P.O.V. in this case.  I hope somebody does Jack Ruby the fucker.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Kreflo on December 02, 2006, 05:39:29 AM
Yeah, but even if he doesn't we all know those big Barry White lookin Mollyfluggas in the lockup don't particularly care for child killers. A Jack  Ruby is a fairly attractive option compared to sodomy with a baseball bat.
Title: Angellika Arndt , 7 R.I.P.
Post by: Anonymous on December 02, 2006, 02:45:20 PM
Another bipolar kid destroyed because some evil bastards don't bother to tell the difference between rotten behavior caused by being rotten and rotten behavior caused by inadequately treated mental illness.

"mood disorder"---ie, the kid had pediatric bipolar disorder with a pshrink who hasn't got the memo yet that it exists. They wouldn't have called it that if the kid was plain vanilla depressed.

And yeah, that's about the typical age of onset for pediatric bipolar disorder---5, 7, somewhere in there. My daughter came down sick with it at 7. I came down sick with it at 5.

For some reason I just can't fathom, most people are total dumbshits about bipolar kids and just can't believe the kid can't control his behavior and that it really is a need for medication or a change in medication---until you get the meds right and the kid's personality goes back to exactly what it was before the kid got sick.

Then they'll believe you that the kid is behaving rottenly because the kid is sick.

Until then, bipolar disorder is all some excuse invented by the kid, the pshrink, or the parents to get the kid out of being punished for not behaving---that is: not ceasing to bounce off the walls, not stopping crying, not ceasing to be irritable, not staying awake in class, not laying down for nap time, not getting assignments or homework done.

In short, the kid, shame on his obnoxious butt, is just using the BS diagnosis of bipolar disorder to make excuses for inconveniencing the adults and others around her---by displaying the symptoms of bipolar disorder.

And so they killed another one of us and tried to blame the murder victim.

Bastards.

Poor little girl.

Julie