Does anybody know if Sudweeks' letter admitting to hazing four students is available to the public?
TAKE ACTION NOW TO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR WHITMORE ACADEMY SURVIVORS:
ISAC has learned that Cheryl Sudweeks, owner of Whitmore Academy in Utah, has beenoffered a plea deal by Juab County Attorney, Jared Eldridge. Sudweeks is scheduled to stand trial next month on 7 counts of child abuse and hazing. Child welfare investigators said they substantiated eightinstances of physical abuse, educational neglect, medical neglect andenvironmental neglect. According to the plea deal, Cheryl Sudweeks will only
have to:
1) Obey all laws.
2) Write a letter to Eldridge stating she attempted to haze 4 students and will not open another program in Juab County.3) Pay any damages awarded in the current civil case against Sudweeks and
Whitmore Academy.
4) Stay away from any program or school dealing with teenagers.
After one year her record will be expunged.
It is exactly THIS kind of lax "prosecution" that allows abusive program
owners to simply relocate and carry on with business as usual.
ISAC encourages everyone to contact Jared Eldridge and Judge Lynn Davis and
voice your outrage to this ridiculous bargain that would allow a confessed
child abuser to have no criminal record at all.
Jared Eldridge
Juab County Attorney
160 North Main Street
Nephi, Utah 84648
(435) 623-3460
Fax: (435) 623-8919
Email:
www.isaccorp.org/documentsnz.asp#whitmore