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unfortunate one:
Hello everybody.  I am new here.  I am 27, married, and live in Salt Lake City.  10 days ago my Mom had my 17 year old brother taken into Discovery Academy.  Well, yesterday he and another boy escaped.  I guess the administrator's office door was broken by a different boy, so my brother went in the office, shut the broken door behind him, and walked right out the door in the office to the outside world.  He made his way to my house, and told me of all the REAL things that go on there: mold in the kitchen areas and prep areas, uncooked meat served and when the kids get sick they say its the flu going around, out of the 6 boys in his sleeping room 2 have bronchitis and 1 has nemonia and they refuse to take them to the doctor or give them any medicine, the staff calls all the boys "Homo" or "Fag" regularly, they refuse to let my brother read the Bible, the other boy who broke out with my brother broke his arm at an activity in there and they did take him to the doctor but 2 weeks later when his hand was blue because the cast was restricting the blood they refused to take him back and he ended up having to bash the cast against the fireplace stones to break the cast off for relief.

My brother is now back at D.A., and I'm freaking out because even though I sent my Mom links to this forum and links about lawsuits and complaints, she refuses to accept the truth, and becomes more brainwashed by the minute as to how good D.A. is.

I just need some relief.  There is absolutely NOTHING I can do, as my Mom is parent/guardian, and she refuses to hear/see the truth of D.A.  I don't know what to do, and am sick worrying about my brother's safety and well-being.  What can I do to get him out?  I showed up to D.A. today, unannounced, to tour the place to try to verify anything of what my brother described.  However, they of course denied me to see any of the facilities.  I'm worried as ever, if any one knows anything I can do, or has some comfort they can impart, it's MUCH needed and appreciated!!!

Anonymous:
There is only one way - emancipation.

Unfortunately you missed one chance. You should have got his signature, when he was out on the run.

There is a link from a referral organization about another case where the family got a girl out of a terrible lockdown.

Contact a lawyer. Get the papers drafted and find a way to get his signature. Then he has to go to court and the mother also. It is a chance and it is buying time. When he is 18 and hopefully still alive by this process of delaying the mis-treatment the problem solves itself.

It is not fun to file a suit against your own family, but we are talking about the life of your brother.

Good luck!

Anonymous:
However I came to think about some other options:

It is very recent that he have been kidnapped, so he still most have a lot of friends, who remember him at his old school. You may team up with them, because this evil spread with gossip among the parents. If one can evade the responsibility of parenting, soon other of his friends could follow his path.

What can they do?

First they can organize a preaceful protest. The facility is located near a public road, so it should be legal to protest outside the school in the weekends.

Beside protesting they can work on this draft to a poster, which they can distribuate in the school. No student in his local school should be without knowledge that a co-student have been locked up without trial.

If you choose to protest outside the facility, please remember the media. Write to newspapers and TV-stations. Explain to them that you are protesting against him being detained because:

1) He has not been convicted in court
2) His visitation rights is worse than if he had been placed in juvies.
3) His status is equal to the status of terrorists detained on the base in Cuba - he does not know for how long he is detained, he has not the basic rights of a prisoner, he does even know what his crime is.
4) Mention all the things that has been in the media about the facility. The rape etc.

It seems a lot to involve other people in a family matter, but the only thing these facilies fear are headlines.

psy:
bump

Ursus:
I'm going to expand out the IsacCorp links, for what it's worth...

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Employee Pleads Guilty to Attempted Rape at Discovery Academy
Daily Herald, Utah
October 9, 2002

SENTENCING: A mental health worker who had sex with a 16-year-old female patient was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail.

Orem resident Joseph J. Butler, 26, pleaded guilty July 25 to attempted rape, a second-degree felony, and making a written false statement, a class-A misdemeanor. A plea bargain reduced the original charge of first-degree felony rape.

Fourth District Judge Gary Stott ordered Butler taken into custody immediately. He said Butler could have work-release privileges after serving 180 days but also must enter the jail's sex offender therapy program and register with the state as a sex offender.

Butler had sex with the patient in the kitchen of the Discovery Academy, a private mental health clinic in Provo, said Sherry Ragan, chief of the criminal division in the Utah County Attorney's Office. The girl had gone to the kitchen for a drink.

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/53188/4/

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