Posted on 03/12/2004 1:03:36 PM PST by EUPHORIC
Listeners of John and Ken in L.A. know this but not much else is being said anywhere else.
Inland Regional Center has contracted with Phoenix Programs of Concord, CA to operate a residential care facility in a house smack dab in the middle of a nice residential neighborhood in Phelan CA. Problem is the 4 "patients" that IRC wants to place there are all mentally retarded SEX OFFENDERS who avoided jail time by pleading insanity at trial!
Even worse is the people being hired to give "one on one care" are barely experienced low wage people being hired off the street with ads in local newspapers! According to one pretty 25 year old girl who quit the moment she found out the nature of her charges new employees are not even being told what the 4 "patients" are in the program for!
Locals banded together in protest once the true nature of the home was discovered and are staging 24/7 protests around the property to prevent its opening. Locals would like as much help as possible in fighting this outrage and can be contacted HERE.
Contact info for the guilty parties is available on that website and also at the IRC site HERE.
Listed to John and Ken on KFI 640 at 3:00 pm for details and please note that John and Ken will be joining the protest by doing a show at the site on Tuesday 3/16 if IRC has not backed down by then.
Just an interesting foot note: I looked at that house in early December of '03 and almost rented it myself!
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