here is an article that ran in the St Petersburg Independent on 6/3/1974, shortly after I graduated. Notble is that this was, for a while, the 'pro-seed' newspaper in town.
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GIRL FORCED TO THE SEED
by Paul Zach, staff writer.
A 16 year old girl was dragged screaming and kicking from a St. Petersburg school recently and taken to The Seed, a drug rehabilitation center here.
The girl was forced into a car by two "volunteer" parents from The Seed, accompanied by the girl's mother, and taken to the drug progam's warehouse near Tyrone Square Mall during classes.
The girl's mother told the Evening Independent she had given consent for her daughter to be taken to The Seed, but later changed her mind about keeping here there after witnessing the way her daughter had been treated and how she reacted.
The principal of St. Petersburg Catholic High School where the incident occured, Mrs. Mary Wells, said she has taken action protesting the incident, but would not reveal what it was.
Mrs. Wells confirmed "force" was used, but said she did not know if reports that the girl had been beaten in the schoolyard were true.
She said the action had been "investigated and documented" and noted diaproved (sic) of any kind of forceable conduct on moral grounds.
the girl involved told an Evening Independent reporter that she was beaten by the man after being pushed into the car. She displayed black-and-blue marks on her legs which she said resulted from the incident.
The girl's mother said the man was only trying to keep the girl from escaping. "otherwise she would have run away", she said. The mother would not reveal the names of the two seed parents.
The mother said the two parents had convinced her to put her daughter in the Seed telling her , If you don't, she will die".
"They told me she was taking all kinds of drugs, Marijuana, PCP, THC, cocaine, mescaline, LSD, everything but heroin.", she said.
The mother, a widow, said she agreed to go with the two Seed parents to take her daughter from school, because she was afraid her daughter would "die" if she didn't.
The girl was called from class by her mother under the premise she had to go to the doctor. When the girl saw the Seed parents, she said she knew something was up and tried to run.
the resulting scuffle in which the girl screamed and kicked as she was dragged to the car was witnessed by teacher and students in the schoolyard.
A spokesman at the St. Petersburg branch of the Seed who gave her name only as "Libby" said today she could not comment on the incident. The director of the program, Art Barker, was unavailable for comment this morning.