Teen Challenge was holding a Finnish native hostage

[Oscar]

In the nordic countries the free access to alcohol has secured peace, low crimerate and lower drug use than in other countries.

But some parents won't allow their children to join the society in a way the citizens in the nordic countries normally do, so the abduct their children to other countries where they are suffer under the conditions. Today we have about 100 Danish children in various countries. Our foreign department is working to get them home, but laws are different so it is not easy.

Normally the US is not among the countries who hold children from the nordic countries hostage, but I found an article about two teenagers who tried to escape a Teen Challenge facility in Pennsylvania. From Two run away from New Hope Academy

Pennsylvania State Police, Tunkhannock Barracks, issued a statewide advisory Tuesday morning for police departments to be on the lookout for a white 16-year-old male, 5'11", 155 lbs. with blond hair and hazel eyes and a white 16-year-old male, 6'0", 165 lbs. with brown hair and blue eyes who is a native of Finland and speaks broken English.

We at Spft will fight every single incident where a native of the Nordic countries are held against his or her will in a foreign country. We have made an agreement to exchange information with organizations fighting exchange of students we can learn of cases where teenagers from the nordic countries are lured to the States believing that the they would be exchange student for a year.

[Ursus]

Hmm. I sure do hope they are not still at New Hope. That news bit was from 2005!  

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Two run away from New Hope Academy

BY NATHAN MILNER

Editor's note: the two boys were apprehended late Tuesday by police in New York State, according to the Pennsylvania State Police.

CLINTON TWP. - Two juveniles ran away from New Hope Academy, Savage Road, Clinton Twp., sometime between 11:55 p.m. Monday, and 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Pennsylvania State Police, Tunkhannock Barracks, issued a statewide advisory Tuesday morning for police departments to be on the lookout for a white 16-year-old male, 5'11", 155 lbs. with blond hair and hazel eyes and a white 16-year-old male, 6'0", 165 lbs. with brown hair and blue eyes who is a native of Finland and speaks broken English. The state police did not know where the juveniles might be headed. Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to contact the state police at 836-2141. New Hope Academy is a ministry of Teen Challenge Training Center, Inc. of Rehrersburg and is described by the Teen Challenge Web site as a center for "...boys whose lives have been affected by life-controlling issues like anger, rebellion and addiction."

Posted Jul 20 2005, 12:00 AM  by csadmin


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