Mindy M. Davis - 1979

Mindy M. Davis was only 15 years when she died while being forced to attend the Teen Challenge program. Too little care about what was transported to the campus ended in her death, which might have been prevented if the employees had decided to alert the authorities right away and sent her to the hospital.

But they didn't and the worse part is that they also did not learn from it. Years later a girl died because they did not react to an illness.

It must have been traumatic for the relatives of Mindy M. Davis. We can only hope that she found peace where she went

Sources

• A Girl Died at an Indiana Teen Challenge Program in 1979. Forty-seven Years Later, Nothing Has Changed. (Teen Challenge Exposed)
• A Girl Died at an Indiana Teen Challenge Program in 1979. Forty-seven Years Later, Nothing Has Changed. (Reddit r/troubledteens)

Peter A. Cooper - 1979

Back in 1979 a fire raided a boarding school up in Connecticut. The old wooden buildings which were properly from 1934 burned quickly and not all students made it out. Some were caught on the second-floor near a window and two of the students - Peter Cooper and Jonathan S. Lenoff - died while a third student suffered terrible burns.

A small memorial plate was set up so the death students could be remembered. For some reason it disappeared sometime after year 2000.

Of course something can be blamed on the building code which allowed a level of safety which turned out to be deadly but regardless of the reason for their death they should not be forgotten.

They lost their lives before they could outlive the potential they were sent to the school to find. Please restore the memorial!


References:

• Two students die in Madison blaze (The Morning Record and Journal - April 24 1979)
• 2 students killed in boys school fire (The New York Times)