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Child Care Facilities "On Watch"
Research Background of Residential Child Care Facilities
What Rights Do Children in Foster Care Have?
According to a Press Release from CAICA, employees of facilities that care for children are Mandated Reporters and cannot be held to a contract that many employees are required to sign, agreeing to be silent about what goes on in these facilities. "If you witnessed maltreatment of children or teens, mild or severe, it is your moral and legal obligation to report it - for the sake of the children. There is protection for those who report child abuse and neglect." Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse
Forgotten Children
We have "Zero Tolerance" for violent behaviors of children in the public school system, yet those same "Zero Tolerance" behaviors are perpetrated against children in the state foster care system by the workers who are hired to protect the children.
Hill Country Youth Ranch - Kerr County Texas -
July 29, 1997
- 34-year-old man was indicted this month on charges he sexually assaulted two boys and committed indecency with a third boy
July 29, 1997
Mark D. Shellenberger, 34, who lives in the Dallas area, was indicted by a Kerr County grand jury on July 3, accused in a nine-count indictment of sexually assaulting children between 1992 and 1995.
April 5, 2003
A civil trial involving a lawsuit brought against Hill Country Youth Ranch ended when a settlement was reached between the defendants and two brothers who claimed they were molested at the facility ten years ago.
Investigations/Citations
There are too many Citations to List on H4K:
5/22/2007 - Staff did not act to ensure the child's safety. The child was playing in front of his cabin and his hands were behind his back with toy handcuffs on their hands. House-parent threw a playground ball at the child which caused them to fall and sustain the injuries.
The child sustained injuries to their knee, and lacerations to their right face, nose and forehead as a result of incident. The injuries required emergency medical treatment including stitches.
8/8/2006 - Pending
Section 4000: II. Basic Care-Problem Management
Standard/Rule/Law Brief Description
II41001 Problem Management-Witness to Physical Punishment
II41002 Problem Management-Documentation of Physical Punishment
II41003 Problem Management-Documentation of Restrictions
II41004 Problem Management-Prohibition of Shaking or Slapping
II41005 Problem Management-Spanking of Children Under Age 5
Standards Evaluated
Section 5000: Child Care
Standard/Rule/Law Brief Description
I52105b Use of Protective Devices-Convenience for Caregivers {Editor Note: Protective Device is a Restraint Device... kids say it looks like the electric chair!}
I52105c Use of Protective Devices-Substitute for Treatment Programs
I52201 Policies and Procedures on Use of Supportive Devices
I52202 Use of Supportive Devices as Adjunct to Care
I52203 Use of Supportive Devices-Written Physician's Orders Required
I52204 Documentation of Use of Supportive Devices and Review of Use of Service Plans
I52205 Use of Supportive Devices-Removal of Device at Night
I52206 Prohibitions on Use of Supportive Devices
I52206a Use of Supportive Devices as Punishment
I52206b Use of Supportive Devices for Convenience of Staff
Kerr County Operations
Star Ranch, Kerrville Texas
December 5, 2005 - 12-year-old former Star Ranch resident who was washed away by rain-swollen waters in Johnson Creek on May 6 died
December 6, 2005 - Christening "Mikie" Garcia Restrained to Death
December 8, 2005 - Autopsy - Suffocated At Star Ranch in Kerrville
June 17, 2006 - State revokes Star Ranch's license
What is going on?
Star Ranch Services
Back In Business:
Violation Details
Operation Number: 254498
Operation Name: Star Ranch Residential Treatment Center
Date: 5/6/2006
Standard Number:‡ I24101a
Standard Description: General Staffing-Caring for Children
Technical Assistance Given: No
Narrative
Facility staff took 4 residents, three of which were hearing impaired, on a planned outing to creek that was swollen by two days of sever thunderstorms.
Narrative
Staff failed to properly supervise a resident resulting in that resident falling into a swollen creek. The child was sucked into a whirlpool that fed in to a culvert. The child was under water for approximately 20 minutes.
CADI aka Child and Adolescent Development Inc. -
August 18, 2004 - Houston Chronicle - Repeated Abuse of Children at CADI, Child & Adolescent Development Center, 2505 Southmore, Houston, Texas; rats, rape, "cooked-books", kids knocked into walls, kicked in the stomach, left without proper medical care, food poisoning, and MORE.
June 24, 2005 - CADI License Revoked
DayStar
- Investigations/Citations
Date: 10/9/2006
Standard Number:‡ I51001
Standard Description: General Child Care-Protection from Abuse Neglect
Technical Assistance Given: No
Citation Given: No
This standard was corrected at inspection because the staff member was terminated prior to inspection.
Staff member failed to provide adequate supervision of a 16 year old resident while bathing which resulted in extensive bruising to the child.
9/2006 - Several residents stated that a staff member hit them in the head with his fist.
4100 Problem Management No Physical Discipline
TFC261401 Abuse/Neglect for Facilities
With a history of abuse of children in foster care, DayStar continues to have issues with staff beating up on the children.
Two children have died at DayStar.
DayStar Doug Swanson, Dallas Morning News,
Waymaker, - Waymaker Closing, Waymaker Violation
Woodside Trails - Closed
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