Katherine Rice - 2008

Katherine Rice became only 16 years of age.

Somehow she got hold of methadone inside a treatment facility. What the methadone did at that place and how it entered the facility known as Kidspeace remains unanswered. Kidspeace is the totally wrong name for such a place.

Her death was the third death at this KidsPeace group home located in the North Whitehall Township.

Why wasn't the place investigated before? Why was there no change in the methods used at the facility?

Even the death of Rice did not end the methods used at the facility.

December 2011 there was an assault on an employee. May 2012 there was a fight at the facility.

The management seems useless caring about the patients.

It is not known that she did so she ended up there, but no crime can be so horrible that she should be exposed to neglect.

We can only hope that she has found peace where she is now.


Sources:

• Girl who OD'd at KidsPeace dies (The Morning Call)
• Teen who OD'd at KidsPeace dies (Topix.com)
• Woman allegedly choked another at KidsPeace in North Whitehall Township (Lehigh Valley)
• North Whitehall: Assault reported at Kids Peace (The Morning Call)
• Victims 2005-9 (Fornits Wiki)

Ashlie Cheyanne Bunch - 2008

15 year old Ashlie Bunch had her problems in this world.

Still as it is written in the Seattle times: "Most of the time, Ashlie Bunch seemed to be a normal teenager, enjoying friends, soccer and family trips."

At some point her family sought help for her. Unfortunately DSHS did choose the McGraw Residential Center for her. It turned out to be a fatal mistake.

One day she was found hanging from a cabinet. She had used a shoelace; employees had given despite knowledge given to them about her suicidal mind.

It was as much neglect as it could be. The family sued just to make an example because regardless of how money the suit could produce incidents like this must never happen again.

Ashlie Bunch's young life ended when it was just begun because she was failed by the facility and their employees. It was a senseless tragedy.

May she rest in peace.

Sources:

• Seattle home for suicidal children sued over death (The Seattle Times)
• Ashlie Cheyanne Bunch (Stop DSHS)

Faith Finley - 2008

Faith Finley died at the Parmadale Family Services center as result of being restrained when she became upset after a staff member took the CD-player, she used to calm herself with.

They used a restraint method known to be dangerous but it was only outlawed once a corpse made it impossible to overlook the fact that it should have been outlawed at least 10 years before.

Faith Finley didn't need to die if the authorities had reacted to tons of research made into restraint methods but she did because some at-risk teenagers in general have to die before anyone care to deal with improvements.

When will it change? The court came to the conclusion that it is an accident. How can it be an accident when every single so-called profesional in the business know that every restraint of a child is a potential lifethreatening situation for the child?

We can only hope that she didn't die in vain and the legislation will protect other children from dying because her family didn't get the justice they were entitled to after suffering such a terrible loss.

May she rest in peace.

Sources:

• Summit to remove children (By Rick Armon and Katie Byard, Ohio.com, December 16, 2008)
• 3 Aquitted In Ohio Teen's Restraint Death (A thread on the Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora)
• Cynthia King, Lazarita Menendez and Ebony Ray - Cleveland, OH (The Bad Seeds of Special Education)
• 3 acquitted in Ohio teen's restraint death (The Guardian, February 9 2010)