Scott Greening Dependency Center in Joplin, MO

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http://http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456184,00.html

Ex-Supervisor at Teen Rehab Center Allegedly Raped Patient

Friday, November 21, 2008

JOPLIN, Mo. —  A woman who briefly supervised teens at a southwest Missouri drug and alcohol treatment center is charged with statutory rape for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old boy at the center.

Police say they're investigating similar allegations concerning Jana Carter, 45, and three other teens who lived at the male-only dormitory at Scott Greening Dependency Center in Joplin. Two of the boys are 16 and the third is 14. No charges had been filed in those allegations as of Friday.

A probable cause statement filed in Jasper County Circuit Court alleges that Carter had consensual sexual contact with the 16-year-old at least twice last month at the center. Their alleged encounters occurred while Carter, a residential supervisor at the time, was working her shift.

Joplin police spokesman Cpl. Chuck Niess told The Associated Press on Friday that Carter is now in custody. Niess said she turned herself in Thursday in McDonald County, south of Jasper County, and was to be transferred to a jail in Jasper County.

Larry Black, director of the Scott Greening Dependency Center, was out of the office Friday and could not be reached by the AP. But he told The Joplin Globe that Carter was hired about a month before the alleged incidents happened. According to court records, she had sexual contact with the 16-year-old from Oct. 10 to Oct. 19.

Black said Carter no longer works at the center. He said nothing came up when the center screened Carter like it does all employees it hires.

"She came in very clean in terms of references and background checks," Black said.

The center is privately owned and specializes in drug and alcohol abuse treatment for teens. It is run with both state and private funding, taking private clients and ones referred by area school districts and the Missouri Department of Juvenile Services.

Besides the all-male residential facility, the center also has a central office in Joplin and a separate dormitory for females.

The center that houses the males generally has 14 to 16 teens who sleep two to a room.

Black said the residence has no video surveillance. He said an employee told him about the allegations against Carter, and the center started investigating on Oct. 24.

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Scott Greening Dependency Center

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March 22, 2010 Goodman woman pleads guilty in teen center sex-abuse case
By Jeff [email protected]
A former night supervisor at a residential center for troubled teens has pleaded guilty to one of five sex-abuse charges she was facing with respect to three boys in the program.
Jana E. Carter, 46, of Goodman, changed her plea to guilty in Jasper County Circuit Court on a single count of second-degree statutory sodomy. She has been facing three counts of second-degree statutory sodomy and two counts of second-degree statutory rape concerning alleged acts with boys who were staying at the Scott Greening Dependency Center at 818 W. Fourth St. in Joplin, when she worked there in 2008.
The plea change was part of an agreement with the Jasper County prosecutor’s office that would dismiss the other counts and limit the prison time Carter might be required to serve at no more than five years.
Circuit Judge David Dally heard the plea change Friday and ordered the completion of a sentencing-assessment report on the defendant.
Carter was accused of having oral sex with two 16-year-old boys and a 14-year-old boy at the residential center, and of having sexual intercourse with two of the boys. All the incidents allegedly took place during October 2008, about a month after Carter began working there as a night supervisor.
The center serves teens with alcohol and drug problems.
The boys testified at preliminary hearings last year that Carter would enter their bedrooms at night and engage in sexual activity with them. The incidents remained a secret until two of the boys were caught sneaking out of the house at night, according to the boys’ testimony at the hearings.
The center’s director gathered all the boys of the home a few days later and asked them to write down everything they had done wrong while in the program. One of the boys reported alleged contact with Carter, and they all began talking about it. The youngest of the three boys testified that all but one or two of the eight or nine boys staying at the home reported having similar sexual contact with Carter.