Posted on 12/22/2022 12:30:49 PM PST by Morgana
A teenaged girl died unexpectedly Tuesday at Diamond Ranch Academy, a southern Utah youth residential treatment center, state officials confirmed Wednesday evening.
Joe Dougherty, a spokesperson for the Utah Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed the department’s Office of Licensing received notification of the girl’s death and are actively investigating in coordination with police officials.
“Our deepest condolences are with their loved ones as they grieve this sudden loss,” he said Wednesday evening. “We’re grateful for everyone who tried to save this youth’s life.”
Diamond Ranch Academy is a 108-bed teen treatment program in Hurricane that describes itself on its website as a “premiere youth residential treatment center with elite private boarding school opportunities.”
Hurricane police officials said in a statement that officers were called to the campus just before 5 p.m. on Tuesday to a report that a 17-year-old girl had collapsed after reporting feeling sick, according to FOX 13.
Diamond Ranch Academy told St. George News in a statement: “We are saddened by the sudden passing of one of our amazing students. Our hearts go out to her family and friends and the staff who worked with her and loved her.”
She is the second girl to die in a Utah teen treatment program this year. Another teenager died in January at Maple Lake Academy, a teen treatment program in Spanish Fork, after regulators say she did not receive adequate medical care despite her worsening symptoms and her parents’ repeated requests that she be taken to a doctor. Licensing officials initially tried to revoke Maple Lake Academy’s license, but backed down in August.
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“teen treatment center” sounds like code for something else. What is it?
Private boarding school for mental illness and addiction treatment.
Stories like this just break my heart. Her parents probably had a very hard time getting their beautiful daughter to agree to go to treatment and had some hope for recovery when they got her admitted. This this horrible news just a couple of days before Christmas. How sad.
It’s unfortunate but true that people smuggle dope into treatment centers and she might have gotten one of the fentanyl-laced pills that have flooded our country. People in treatment / rehab centers often learn worse habits from other patients instead of focusing on getting their problem under control.
Hurricane news.
That’s exactly what happened to my 30 yr old nephew in Cleveland.
That is so sad. I’m sorry to hear that.
Very expensive.
The “Unexpectedly” disease strikes again.
Thanks, T-c.
Y’know, as long as I lived there, I had no idea there even WAS such a place in Hurricane. St George and Santa Clara/Ivins, yes, but not Hurricane.
I’ll have to ask about it, now, and go take a look when I get back.
What a sad thing to have happen. Parents always have such high hopes for their kids.
And just what is the unexpectedly disease?!
That’s not how it works. The parents are told to wait until it’s time to wake up and go for the child to find out. Have a bag packed for the child, head to the airport and fly to the destination airport. The facility has people meet you at the arrival area and they take your kid. Surely that’s scarring as hell for the kid, and parents.
A friend of mine did this last summer with their kid. It was a place in Utah also. Basically they were roughing it outdoors for a few months. Digging latrines every night, making their own meals and at least 15 miles of hiking every day.
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She is the second girl to die in a Utah teen treatment program this year. Another teenager died in January at Maple Lake Academy, a teen treatment program in Spanish Fork, after regulators say she did not receive adequate medical care despite her worsening symptoms and her parents’ repeated requests that she be taken to a doctor. Licensing officials initially tried to revoke Maple Lake Academy’s license, but backed down in August.
Fascinating, but again a licensing agency was told stfu by politicians who get donations or just straight payola from the company owning the facility.
How did the treatment work? Seriously. Many of us who have had to deal with a vile, raging, violent ‘you can’t make me’ teen simply enjoy the sheer schadenfreude of shipping their sorry ass to what amounts to a combination of Paris Island and the Gulag somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The question is does this put the fear of god into the sorry little jerks that our corrupt society has spent years inculcating them with their vile and degenerate attitudes?
Facilities and treatment programs are as varied as people. Some are like you describe. Others are very posh country-club get-aways. I have no idea where the Utah facility lies on that broad spectrum.
I agree, it is very sad.
It's an inpatient detox facility for teen dope addicts. Usually they end up there as the result of a judge giving them a choice of going there or going to jail. I have a cousin with a daughter who has been in and out of them since she was 14 (she's now 19). She's almost bankrupted them trying to pay for drying her out, I doubt it'll ever completely work. For the moment she seems to be clean but if I got a call tomorrow saying they'd found her dead in a meth house I wouldn't be surprised.
Mormon neighbors of ours sent their daughter to one of these ranches many years ago. Mormon run, and they are ranches where the kids don’t have access to phones or laptops, work hard, therapy, etc. I think she ran away from one, and put back into another one.
She finally did get clean. Joined the army as a medic, served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now married with two kids.
There are “Transport” services around the US that come and get your kids for you. They come to your house and pull your child from his/her bed at 3 am and say to the kid “you can do this the easy way or the hard way”. The child is traumatized to say the least because he/she thinks they are being kidnapped. What is worse the parents stand there and say “we love you honey da da da da da”. Some are handcuffed like that Agape Boarding school story I posted about.
Read about it here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4091280/posts
If the child says “I’m being kidnapped” at the airport that only delays the situation, but does not stop them from being taken to these abusive schools.
I can tell you probably what went down at this school with this child.
A situation like this, which has happened in the past with these places.
The child was sick and said so to staff but they did not believe her. The child got worse but they did not believe her and gave her minimal if any medical attention. She got worse and they said she was “faking it” and to get back to the program. By the time they realize she’s in serious medical distress they do CPR and call 911 but it’s too late. Then they pretend to care to the police and media.
this has happened more than I care to think about. No one believes the kids because they are “troubled teens”. Well this teen is dead tonight and someone’s ass should be in big trouble.
Another thing I want to add about these schools? They have rules like parents can’t contact the students for several months after entering the program then after that phone calls and mail is monitored. BIG RED FLAG! No that is your child and if you want to go to that place at 2am any day of the week and see your child you should be able too. Last I checked it is also a federal offense to tamper with US mail.
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