Open season on Florida State funded/mandated child abuse

[Antigen]

Sex abuse claims in suit refer to boot camp death
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
... Gievers said in a phone interview Tuesday afternoon that the death
of boot camp detainee Martin Lee Anderson, 14, in January, and documented
sexual abuse cases ...
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/ ... 328538.htm

Education access is governor's goal
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA
... Of course, the case of the developmentally delayed youngster placed
in the care of a rapist last year and the case of Martin Lee Anderson
are prime examples. ...
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... 30308/1022

Boot-camp case stirs students
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA
College students from throughout Tallahassee remembered Martin Lee Anderson
during a forum Wednesday and renewed calls for justice in the case of
the 14-year ...
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... 30320/1010

Boot-camp case stirs students
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA
College students from throughout Tallahassee remembered Martin Lee Anderson
during a forum Wednesday and renewed calls for justice in the case of
the 14-year ...
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... 30320/1010

Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic, and have no place in a Republic. The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.
--Abridged quote-Benjamin Rush, M.D., a signer of the Declaration of Independence

[Deborah]

Posted on Thu, Apr. 20, 2006

JUVENILE JUSTICE
Law exempts camps from DCF probes
An exemption in Florida law allowed boot camps to investigate child abuse claims without reporting them to the DCF.
BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14383092.htm

[Anonymous]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/

Palm Beach Post Editorial

Thursday, January 11, 2007


New team, new hope for at-risk, troubled teens

I strongly agree that Gov. Crist's appointment of Walter McNeil to lead the state's Department of Juvenile Justice is an excellent choice ("A better cop for DJJ?," editorial, Jan. 6). Chief McNeil supports more prevention and treatment to help troubled teens become productive adults, an approach that our not-for-profit Eckerd Youth Alternatives has employed to help more than 70,000 at-risk and troubled youth since 1968.

We can hope that the revenue required to run a top-notch juvenile justice program finally will be allocated by the new Legislature. Public opinion polls have shown consistently that taxpayers support spending money on juvenile justice programs so they don't have to pay for more prisons, yet DJJ has been chronically under-financed since it was created in 1994.

I hope this new dynamic - Gov. Crist, the 2007 Legislature and Secretary McNeil - will be the start of a better day for troubled teens in Florida and EYA. EYA looks forward to working with this new team.

NANCY ECKERD HART

Clearwater

Editor's note: Nancy Eckerd Hart is a board member of Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc., which runs a program in Palm Beach County.

[Anonymous]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/

Palm Beach Post Editorial

Thursday, January 11, 2007


New team, new hope for at-risk, troubled teens

I strongly agree that Gov. Crist's appointment of Walter McNeil to lead the state's Department of Juvenile Justice is an excellent choice ("A better cop for DJJ?," editorial, Jan. 6). Chief McNeil supports more prevention and treatment to help troubled teens become productive adults, an approach that our not-for-profit Eckerd Youth Alternatives has employed to help more than 70,000 at-risk and troubled youth since 1968.

We can hope that the revenue required to run a top-notch juvenile justice program finally will be allocated by the new Legislature. Public opinion polls have shown consistently that taxpayers support spending money on juvenile justice programs so they don't have to pay for more prisons, yet DJJ has been chronically under-financed since it was created in 1994.

I hope this new dynamic - Gov. Crist, the 2007 Legislature and Secretary McNeil - will be the start of a better day for troubled teens in Florida and EYA. EYA looks forward to working with this new team.

NANCY ECKERD HART

Clearwater

Editor's note: Nancy Eckerd Hart is a board member of Eckerd Youth Alternatives Inc., which runs a program in Palm Beach County.

[Anonymous]

MySpace contact results in man's arrest

Eckerd Youth Alternatives E-How-Kee Camp, a camp in Brooksville for troubled youngsters.

By TONY MARRERO

[email protected]

Apr 25, 2006

BROOKSVILLE ? A 24-year-old Spring Hill man has been charged with sexual battery after he met a 14-year old girl on a popular Internet site, then had sex with her, according to an arrest affidavit from the Hernando County Sheriff?s Office.

James M. Tarduno, 3137 Wiltshire Ave., was arrested Tuesday and faces charges of lewd and lascivious battery on a child 12 years of age or older, but younger than 16.

The victim told investigators that she met Tarduno on MySpace.com, a popular social Internet site frequented by young people.

The two corresponded for a month online and through text messages on cell phones, then made arrangements to meet for sex, according to the report.

Tarduno met the victim at her house last Friday and they walked to Tarduno?s home, where they had sexual contact in the driveway, the report said. They also had sex in Tarduno?s station wagon, police said.

Tarduno later admitted to the sexual offense when contacted by investigators.

Tarduno was taken to Hernando County Jail, where he was being held on $20,000 bond.

According to the report, Tarduno worked in security at Eckerd Youth Alternatives E-How-Kee Camp, a camp in Brooksville for troubled youngsters.

Tarduno started as a night watchman at the camp earlier this year and had no direct contact with youngsters there, said Lou Anne Banks, a spokeswoman for Eckerd Youth Alternatives, when reached Tuesday afternoon.

Banks said Tarduno passed law enforcement background checks at the time of his application. She said Tarduno ?no longer works with us as of this morning.?

Reporter Tony Marrero can be contacted at (352) 544-5286.

[http://www.hernandotoday.com/news/MGBZ4X0ZGME.html]