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Anonymous:
Troubled Teen Home Investigated for Abuse
Nov. 30, 2004
Samantha Hayes Reporting
It's often a last resort for some parents. But a facility for troubled teens is under investigation tonight after strong allegations from one boy.
Carol Sisco, Child and Family Services: ?Our licensing office notified them that we intend to revoke their license.?
The state's decision to pull the license follows a teenage boy's claims he was verbally and physically abused. KSL talked with many of the same children interviewed by child and family services in their investigation, children who have come from all over the country to get help.
Mark and Cheryl Sudweeks own and operate the boarding school for 27 teenagers and a separate residential treatment facility for 12 boys.
Mark Sudweeks, Owner Whitmore Academy: ?It?s not working at home and we feel we have a solution that can help kids turn their lives around.?
A teenage boy who was in the therapy group accused Whitmore Academy of abuse.
Carol Sisco: ?Allegations are of verbal abuse, physical abuse, lack of supervision, bad sanitation, sub-standard food.?
Victoria Degarmo, Counselor: ?There is no verbal abuse. What goes on here is nothing that doesn?t go on in a family home.?
The state and local police interviewed the teenagers in both programs to find out if the accusations were true.
Carol Sisco: ?We are still looking at it and we have the health department looking at it too.?
But the treatment facility's license is already being revoked.
Chris Gentile, Enrolled at Whitmore Academy: ?One of the things I love about this place is that I used to have the worst relationship with my parents and now I feel like I can tell them anything.?
Hannah Ruisi, Enrolled at Whitmore Academy: ?They helped me believe in myself and discover who I was.?
The boarding school is not regulated by the state, and children in that program live in Whitmore Mansion. But Sudweeks says they interact with those in the treatment facility; that is another concern for state investigators. The teenage boy who made the allegations was pulled our of Whitmore Academy.
During the investigation, three others were removed by their parents.
Anonymous:
Victoria Degarmo, Counselor: ?There is no verbal abuse. What goes on here is nothing that doesn?t go on in a family home.?
Victoria Degarmo, Counselor: ?There is no verbal abuse. What goes on here is nothing that doesn?t go on in a family home.?
Victoria Degarmo, Counselor: ?There is no verbal abuse. What goes on here is nothing that doesn?t go on in a family home.?
Victoria Degarmo, Counselor: ?There is no verbal abuse. What goes on here is nothing that doesn?t go on in a family home.?
Victoria Degarmo, Counselor: ?There is no verbal abuse. What goes on here is nothing that doesn?t go on in a family home.?
Victoria Degarmo, Counselor: ?There is no verbal abuse. What goes on here is nothing that doesn?t go on in a family home.?
LOL......TALK TO TORI..........YA....SHE'LL SET YOU RIGHT..........SHE WAS THERE IN NOVEMBER 04................JUST WHAT GOES ON.......................NOBODY BEAT UP JOEY.......HE BIT THE HAND THAT FEEDS HIM..............HIS PARENTS SUPPORT THE SUDWEEKS.................LOL
Anonymous:
Come on, skinny dipping is pretty lame compared to what your daughters and GRAND DAUGHTERS have done...
Joyce Harris:
We are not talking about what DAUGHTERS and GRANDAUGHTERS have done or not done.
The issue here is a grown woman--Cheryl Sudweeks who is SUPPOSE to be in charge of a group of trouble teenagers swimming naked with these teens.
This is a woman who says she practices the MORMON religion...and I do not think this CHURCH would approve of one of its MEMBERS who serves in the "role of a teacher, and head of a school" swimming in the nude with the students of this school.
It is one thing for Cheryl Sudweeks to "dance around in her little SACRED UNDERGARMENTS in front of these teenage boys and girls," but to swim naked with them is a bit too much!
And it is a bit too much for this so-called CHRISTIAN woman to discuss her inadequate sex life with her pitiful husband with these teenagers, too.
Cheryl Sudweeks' behavior is unacceptable, if not criminal.
Gmom:
OUR DAUGHTERS AND GRANDDAUGHTERS WERE CHILDREN in the so-called PROFESSION CARE fo the Sudweeks in
so-called SCHOOL, which offered so-call THERAPY.
What teacher, counselor, principal, or therapist
do you know who swims naked with the kids enrolled in their school or under their care?
When an adult in that situation appears naked for any reason in front of minors in their care, it is plain and simple -- AGAINST THE LAW!! No question or discussion about it. USE YOUR HEADS -- THINK!!!!!!
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