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Anonymous:
I don't know if it was in the media or not. A student told me about it
Deborah:
Google DA and see what you find. You've probably seen these.
Ms. Bryant, a single parent, had given up custody of her son to his uncle after the young man began having difficulties in school.
She had raised her son and his older sister mostly as a single parent. Her husband died when her son was 5 years old and her daughter was 7.
She guided her children through the early years, and her photo album shows mostly happy times: the son doing wheelies on his bike, the daughter excelling in tennis, both children in baseball and skiing poses.
Her son began struggling academically, and after being diagnosed with what she termed a ?mild? learning disability, he was transferred into a program for special needs students during his middle school years. She pulled him out of the program because ?he did not belong there.?
As the years went on, her son began skipping school, getting suspended, sleeping late, not showing up for tutoring sessions and hanging with the wrong crowd.
Her brother had been asking for custody of the boy for a couple of years, and in April 2005, she relented, believing, she said, that her son would be placed in a school closer to home and that she would have full visitation rights.
It took her 30 days to learn the whereabouts of her son. She has seen him only twice since, and has not heard from him in the past four months.
The boy?s therapist at the Discovery Academy has recommended that he be separated from the influences that created the behavior and academic problems, and he is allowed visits from family members only by arrangement as a reward.
http://cafety.org/index.php?option=com_ ... &Itemid=87
http://www.isaccorp.org/discoveryacadem ... 29.06.html
Staff Pleads Guilty to Attempted Rape of a Student
http://www.isaccorp.org/documentsam.asp#da
LMJ630:
--- Quote from: ""Deborah"" ---Google DA and see what you find. You've probably seen these.
Ms. Bryant, a single parent, had given up custody of her son to his uncle after the young man began having difficulties in school.
She had raised her son and his older sister mostly as a single parent. Her husband died when her son was 5 years old and her daughter was 7.
She guided her children through the early years, and her photo album shows mostly happy times: the son doing wheelies on his bike, the daughter excelling in tennis, both children in baseball and skiing poses.
Her son began struggling academically, and after being diagnosed with what she termed a ?mild? learning disability, he was transferred into a program for special needs students during his middle school years. She pulled him out of the program because ?he did not belong there.?
As the years went on, her son began skipping school, getting suspended, sleeping late, not showing up for tutoring sessions and hanging with the wrong crowd.
Her brother had been asking for custody of the boy for a couple of years, and in April 2005, she relented, believing, she said, that her son would be placed in a school closer to home and that she would have full visitation rights.
It took her 30 days to learn the whereabouts of her son. She has seen him only twice since, and has not heard from him in the past four months.
The boy?s therapist at the Discovery Academy has recommended that he be separated from the influences that created the behavior and academic problems, and he is allowed visits from family members only by arrangement as a reward.
http://cafety.org/index.php?option=com_ ... &Itemid=87
http://www.isaccorp.org/discoveryacadem ... 29.06.html
Staff Pleads Guilty to Attempted Rape of a Student
http://www.isaccorp.org/documentsam.asp#da
--- End quote ---
Deborah - I did find these. Thank you for taking the time! :)
Anonymous:
Mother sues school, says son was assaulted
By Laura Hancock
Deseret Morning News
PROVO ? A mother of a former student of a boarding school for troubled youth is suing the school, claiming her son was sexually assaulted by other students.
The mother, from Aliso Viejo, Calif., seeks at least $200,000 in damages against the Discovery Academy, 105 N. 500 West, in Provo, and the parents of students identified as John and Jane Does 1-10, according to the suit filed Aug. 14 in 4th District Court.
Gregory Sanders, the attorney representing the school, said he barely was served with lawsuit papers, but he contested the allegations.
"I'm saying an assault didn't happen," he said. "What the position of the Discovery Academy is, it was horseplay among several youth and there was no sexual assault."
The boy was a minor on May 8, 2005, when two students jumped on him and physically restrained him while another student abused him with a broomstick, the suit states.
The boy was supposed to be under 24-hour supervision. The staff person responsible for monitoring him was outside the room talking on a cell phone, the suit states.
The boy did not tell school officials about the assault for two days and after school officials learned about it, they called his mother and took the boy to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center for an exam and treatment, the suit says.
After the boy returned to the school, he was placed in the same area with the students he claims assaulted him. The students asked him to not cooperate with prosecutors, the suit says.
The incident is being investigated by police, the suit says, but the Deseret Morning News was unable to confirm Friday whether Provo police were working on the case.
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mel0731:
If you have any information, please post as soon as you can. My former husband is preparing his case to send my son here and I am needing information to demonstratet that this would be a bad decision. Thank you for you help....
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