Posted on 02/03/2023 11:22:15 AM PST by Morgana
A Native American teenager who died while attending a Utah boarding school for at-risk youth had been sick in the weeks beforehand, but staff members had been trained to assume students would lie about being ill and did not try to bring her to the hospital until the day she died, former staff members said in interviews.
Taylor Goodridge, 17, collapsed at Diamond Ranch Academy in Hurricane, Utah, on Dec. 20. While an official cause of death has not yet been determined, her family said in a lawsuit that they believe she died of sepsis, a life-threatening condition that arises from a body’s response to infection.
The Utah Department of Health and Human Services placed Diamond Ranch Academy’s license on “conditional status,” allowing it to remain open while the agency and the Hurricane Police Department investigate Taylor’s death. The Health and Human Services Department said the academy is “actively collaborating with investigators.”
Dean Goodridge, Taylor’s father, sued Diamond Ranch Academy in federal court on Dec. 30, alleging that the school knew his daughter was severely ill but told her to “suck it up” and take aspirin.
An attorney for Diamond Ranch said the facility has “substantial disagreement with many aspects” of the lawsuit and allegations by former staff members, but could not respond in detail because of federal privacy law governing education and medical records.
One thing we have agreement on, it’s a tragic circumstance,” said Bill Frazier, the school’s attorney. “Any time you have a 17-year-old die, it’s horrendous and we’re crestfallen by it.”
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but they are now crestfallen
Former staff means they weren’t there.
Well I feel better now knowing that. That poor girl, not so much.
There are several of these in UT and AZ. All seem to focus on slow torture as a means of "instilling discipline" in the victims students.....
The parents share at least some of the responsibility for sending the kiddo to the school. I'm adult enough to know the kids are mostly an out-of-control wreck by the time they arrive, having been allowed to run feral most of their lives.
Do these schools have a particular religious orientation?
Kind of a reverse ‘girl who cried wolf.’ This will cost them.
😂 😂
Never heard it put that way before.
I learned a long time ago, not all kids that “go wild” have bad parents, yes many do.... but some kids just go against the grain no matter what those around them do.
Know a family they have 9 kids, 8 are wonderful salt of the earth, and 1 is just a hellion....
Same parents, same environment....
“Do these schools have a particular religious orientation?”
This one does not. This one however is kinda famous in that Paris Jackson, the daughter of Michael Jackson was sent there after she tried to commit suicide. Miss Jackson said she was abused as well.
“I learned a long time ago, not all kids that “go wild” have bad parents, yes many do.... but some kids just go against the grain no matter what those around them do.
Know a family they have 9 kids, 8 are wonderful salt of the earth, and 1 is just a hellion....
Same parents, same environment....”
Funny you should say that! I’ve posted here about a family from Arkansas who have 19 kids and one is not only a hellion but now he’s in a Texas prison for sex offenders.
Crestfallen means losing face, losing pride, not feeling grief or remorse. Probably poor word choice by someone not knowing the meaning.
It’s a shame she died. She wasn’t, from the article, given proper medical care and attention. Nothing was right about this ordeal…nothing!
“The parents share at least some of the responsibility for sending the kiddo to the school. I’m adult enough to know the kids are mostly an out-of-control wreck by the time they arrive, having been allowed to run feral most of their lives. “
Ever heard the term “throw away kids”? The majority of the kids sent to schools like these are those type of kids. Not to say she was but a lot are. They are “throw away” or “rehomed”.
Parents don’t know, don’t care or are just tired of being parents.
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