Posted on 03/22/2022 11:45:17 PM PDT by Morgana
LAKELAND, Fla. - A school that marketed itself as being a place for troubled teens in Lakeland has closed.
The death of 17-year-old Naomi Wood at Lakeland Girls Academy, on May 19, 2020, was made public last year after an investigation showed she had complained about stomach pains in the weeks before.
The investigation revealed Wood asked to see a doctor, but was refused and was instead offered over the counter medication, soup, and prayer.
"Staff members made the child get up for meals and fed her soup, as that is their protocol when children are sick. They also prayed for her to get better," documents from the Department of Children and Families' investigation said. "Facility staff did not seek any medical attention for the child until she was found in her room unresponsive."
The head of Florida’s child protective team wrote that Naomi’s death was, "consistent with delay in seeking care and medical neglect."
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Now do you believe me? This is what I’m talking about. Does a kid have to die before you listen?
I am glad to see the parents are suing. She was 17 years old, not a little kid. I wonder how much this school charged. No doubt all the “residents” had to have medical insurance or Medicaid. Hard hearts, it seems.
Covid Insanity in 2020?
I often read about these sort of schools which are for troubled kids (basically reform schools you pay for) having some kind of tragedy.
I don’t remember the name of the school, but it was for the rich and troubled kids of famous actors like, Griffin O’Neal, where there are all sorts of abuses going on, and maybe several deaths.
I’m sorry. Griffin O’Neal, is Ryan O’Neal’s son.
Cause of death is never disclosed. More crap journalism or something else?
I looked for the cause of death, too. It seems as if it’s relevant information. Not there.
You are missing the point!
This story is not designed to get you to worry about the kid...it was designed to get you to dislike the school and its practices.
Ever see a 1950s era science fiction movie? The adults NEVER EVER believe the kids or teenagers...
63,000,000 hasn't made a dent yet.
“Staff members made the child get up for meals and fed her soup, as that is their protocol when children are sick. They also prayed for her to get better,”
“And, before you know it...that grapefruit-sized cancerous stomach tumor will be GONE! GONE I tell ya! Can I get an amen? Hallelujah brother!”
This school is owned by a company called “Teen Challenge” and they operate schools like this all across the United States.
Every time something like this happens and one of their schools are closed in one town/state? They just reopen somewhere else. Same shit all over again till another teen is seriously injured or killed.
Point well taken Elsie.
At least there is one thing you can say about me, I do care about them AFTER they are born. Remember this next time a pro chocier ever brings it up.
My point was that abuse is rife in both religious and secular institutions. The problem isn’t religion, it is people with authority.
I never said it wasn’t however we as Christians should do better. Do you want to be in the gutter with the secular ones? Tell these so called Christian ones to upgrade or quit.
By focusing on religious based institutions exclusively you give fodder to those who have an axe to grind.
If you are worried about abuse, exposing it in all institutions servicing teenagers would seem to be a more effective, comprehensive strategy. Otherwise the religious community will write you off as someone who has a bee in their bonnet regarding Christians and the secular leftists will just use it as justification for their uninformed prejudices.
No they give themselves fodder for those who have an axe to grind every time they mess up.
I’m just trying to call attention to it so we as christians may clean house before it’s too late. Now if you can’t see that then there is nothing more I can say.
Either we do it or it will become like Canada here with these private schools.
Thanks- I checked out the link and found out the early history extends back to the 1950s street preaching in New York culminating into the “Cross and the Switchblade” book/movie to the present day with this man now in charge, based in Missouri with 200 centers (couldn’t find a list of the locations or who is on their Board of Directors.)
https://churchgrowthmagazine.com/a-perfect-storm-the-aftermath-of-covid-19/
He sounds like a concerned Christian to the viewing public, but we’re now in the Age of the 501c3 Corporate Churches who obey Govt. Edicts so as not to jeopardize fundraising etc.
Near as I can tell this is more collusion saying the death was “natural cause” in an facility treating teens and adults for alcohol/substance abuse and secondarily for the abuse these poor souls suffered. Compassion and understanding took a big backseat. I agree with you, Morgana, that Christians need to be better than this. Spiritual warfare is taking a huge toll.
Oh, I certainly care. I’ve called the authorities in a couple of cases where children were almost certainly being abused — and I was not a mandatory reporter, either. I was also probably banned from Twitter for trying to protect children from abuse.
Maybe you are too close to the situation to be sufficiently objective, but you have no grounds to be accusatory towards other people here — people you don’t know at all — merely because they don’t see the overall situation just as you do.
You mentioned Teen Challenge here, too. I was familiar with its story myself, that its founder was Pastor David Wilkerson. They might actually do good work under ever more difficult circumstances these days, with the culture getting ever darker and more evil and hostile to God. I’ve also personally known in my life a couple of very troubled teenagers. One by himself or herself can cause a lot of havoc. And these days, there is so much more to confuse and mislead troubled teens, making it all the harder to reach them. The adult world itself has significantly lost its moral compass.
So any organization set up to help teens therefore has an extremely difficult challenge in trying to do so. And it might be compared somewhat to prison, though it’s nowhere near extreme and dangerous as that — so prison isn’t the safest place in the world, but the life that an active criminal would have outside the prison is even more dangerous, as well as being a danger to others. Many if not most of the teens in these homes are also in danger by their own misguided, disturbed, and immature conduct, as well as being a likely danger to others — if not due to potentially being violent, then due to poor decision making, going with the wrong crowd, and being a bad influence on other kids.
Finally, I’ve mentioned here on this site recently that I’ve experienced being homeless. While I was homeless, I stayed for a time at two different women’s shelters that were very comparable in many ways, especially in size and organization. One was run by a religious organization, and the other by a secular non-profit. The religious shelter definitely had its “business” side, but ultimately there was no comparison between the two. The religious place was vastly superior, including in the conduct of the women staying there because the atmosphere was different. The secular shelter truly was a business through and through, but also a government institution like public schools since that’s where most of its funding came from. In the secular place, I think I must have heard “MF” and the B-word (for female dogs) hundreds if not a thousand times a day, and I witnessed numerous fights and physical incidents, and was threatened myself. None of that happened in the religious place although the same types of people were there. The secular shelter had a similar culture to that of an underperforming public school, while the religious shelter still had quite a bit of spiritual vision and a culture of religious service and mission among the staff, who overall didn’t look down on women staying at the shelter. The secular shelter, however, was about careers and jobs, and the staff, starting from the top, mostly did look down on the residents.
The problem is that most these kids do death defying stunts on a regular basis. They lie and scheme which is why the parents send them to these places. It is “ the boy who cried wolf” and sometimes there is a wolf. I am not defending the school, but over the long haul people who act like assed have bad life outcome odds
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