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Aspen Education Group: Any former students?
Pitbull Mom:
--- Quote from: ""spirithelps"" ---I've encountered a lot of what you're saying about keeping their nose clean, having worked at one facility and turned in a sexual and harassment abuse report by a few of the staff. I think they're getting ready to go public, thus the need to buy up more facilities and keep that profit margin high.
I can say that they put very little money into the program for the kids. Office staff drive brand new vehicles, and the program vehicles for the kids have 200,000+ miles on 'em, van side door that doesn't open, no brakes, and extremely loose steering. 100 degree weather and the kids sleep in lofts with windows that won't open (due to security), no fans, no air, just sweltering heat.
They use discipline that is against state law. They just had a duct tape incident that was swept under the carpet by the Sheriff's Office, Child Protective Services, and the State Licensor. This happened in Utah where the Mormons are all related, or have ties, to someone else . . . the sexual offender is a police informant, CPS lady is a blood relative of the Aspen facility Director, and the State Licensor lady's husband works for another Aspen facility in a different city. Very cozy working relationship, to say the least. They removed the victim from the offending institution to another one of theirs up north in Utah.
I've heard that the mother of the victim is still pushing for answers and so am I.
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Can you please provide me with specifics about the above incidents. I have been trying to track down this info you posted about the blood relative of Aspen working in the State Licensing Department. There is a licensing hearing going on right now regarding the death of a boy at Youth Care. this information is very pertitent to this case. I need any of the following information you can provide.
I need the date of the incident.
Case number for the police report/which county the report was filed in
the name of the CPS employee and the relative at Aspen.
If the mother of the victim wants to get in touch with me she can email it to at justiceforbrendan@hotmail.com
Thanks.
spirithelps:
After spending an hour, putting together a post with dates, names, etc. from my file, it all just disappeared. Posting this one quickly and from Word!
My witnessing of sexual abuse and receipt of employee harassment occurred on June 26, 2004. My formal complaint was filed with TAR on June 27, 2004. Max Stewart was the TAR Director at that time (he has since retired).
His female cousin (name unknown) was a boss in Panguitch Child Protective Services. She was the boss of Virgil D. Sickels who told me on Friday, July 30, 2004 that he would not give up on this one. His formal letter to me closed the case the following Monday, Aug. 2, 2004.
Every agency closed the case on Aug. 2, 2004: CPS, State Licensing and Sheriff.
I filed my complaint with the Garfield County Sheriff on July 3, 2004 (no official copy ever obtained by me). Our Escalante deputy, John Chambers, called me back and told me that he already had concerns due to a duct tape incident which happened the very night I turned in my complaint to TAR (which I also witnessed). I asked why I wasn’t interviewed by them as witness in their duct tape investigation and requested that they do so (they never did). (Deputy Chambers was shot and killed in Escalante, I believe, about a year later.)
I contacted State Licensing via email on July 3, 2004, and on July 6, got an email response from Suzanne Chavira of the St. George office that everything was AOK and good at TAR because they had let the 2 employees go who were involved in the duct tape incident. I laughed and asked who told you that. She said Max Stewart. I told her that the man involved (Tom Alvey) still worked there (and he still does to this very day) and that the woman involved had already given her notice before the incident and was already in the process of moving out of state.
I found out that Max had not abided by state law and notified State Licensing of my sexual abuse complaint against the Roundy Manager, Wayne Stinson. (complaints against managers must be reported by the facility to the state)
On August 7, 2004, through local, native Mormon residents, I was told that:
State Licensing Suzanne Chavira’s husband also worked at an Aspen facility in St. George.
CPS boss of Virgil Sickels is Max Stewart’s cousin.
The TAR sexual abuser manager Wayne Stinson was previously a Salt Lake City cop, dismissed for behavior and attitude problems. In Escalante, he worked for the local Sheriff Dept. as an undercover informant (residents always wondered why he was constantly driving up and down all of Escalante’s streets).
I’m happy to scan documentation into a pdf and will email to those of you whom I’ve had ongoing relationships in this forum and know. I don’t trust others and will not mail to anyone I don’t know. Sorry, but I don’t trust Mormons, the power of “The Churchâ€
spirithelps:
Deputy John Chambers was not shot and killed, that was a previous one.
The employee Tom Alvey, who was involved in the duct tape incident and who still works at TAR today, tried to run me off the road 3 times after I filed my complaint.
Each time he was driving a TAR truck with 3 or more male students inside. On the first 2 occasions, I drove off the side of the road to avoid a collision. On the third, I held my ground and our side mirrors barely missed each other. That was the last time he tried to do it.
What I thought was even stranger was that my then husband didn't think this was bad behavior on Tom's part at all, even though we all could have been killed or maimed in 45 MPH headon wreck.
After my complaint, TAR transferred one of the locally known sexual abusers included in my complaint to a different facility (no longer at the remote place with only other male staff, never enough female staff for this semi-wild first stop facility, never enough females to meet state requirements), and he quit rather than working with the regular staff, at the regular facility.
Toni
Deborah:
--- Quote ---I’m happy to scan documentation into a pdf and will email to those of you whom I’ve had ongoing relationships in this forum and know. I don’t trust others and will not mail to anyone I don’t know. Sorry, but I don’t trust Mormons, the power of “The Churchâ€
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spirithelps:
Max Stewart, Turn-About Ranch Director at the time, investigated my complaint by individually drilling female students. Other TAR employees who were there at the time told me that Max talked with some of them for over an hour and that all of the girls were crying extensively when he was done.
I worked the evening shift and came in at 5:30 pm and none of the girls who I personally supervised in the past would have anything to do with me. They looked me in the eye, then diverted their eyes, one got "sick" during supper and had to be moved into a private room, and others got up and moved away from me at the supper table.
Max never did inform the TAR, professionally licensed counselors of my complaint and allegations. By state law, he could not have interviewed them one-on-one, by himself as only a male counselor (plus his professional counseling license was not current with the state).
During his "investigation", he did not remove the female students that he questioned from the abusers influence and care.
Max never talked to me personally about my complaint. After his investigation, he gave a "TAR employee token" to my husband with the instructions to tell me that everything was OK and not to worry! Ah, this is how the Mormons work too . . . the wives are supposed to do what the husbands say!
Toni
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