16 year old Danny Lewis died during an outing while supervised by VisionQuest.
The place the counselors did choose for a bath became deadly for Danny Lewis when he became tangled in moss and drowned.
Sources:
Victims in 1980s,
Californian, Utahn drown, The Rochester Sentinel - April 4, 1990
Showing posts with label drowning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drowning. Show all posts
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
John Vincent Garrison - 1990
18 year old John Vincent Garrison ended up at VisionQuest instead of serving his time in the local juvenile detention facility. No information can tell us today whether it was a choice made by the court in order to treat some kind of disorder instead of just doing time. But the decision to choose this kind of alternative sentence turned out to be deadly.
According to the media we have learned that the parents believed that the treatment of this young man by the staff members led him to believe that his life was in danger. He took the decision to escape from the program in an attempt to save his life and he drowned during this attempt.
His parents sued the program. It has not been possible to determine whether they won in court.
Source:
Deaths in the 1990s - Fornits Wiki database
VisionQuest sued over teen's death, Lodi News-Sentinel - 3 Jun 1991
According to the media we have learned that the parents believed that the treatment of this young man by the staff members led him to believe that his life was in danger. He took the decision to escape from the program in an attempt to save his life and he drowned during this attempt.
His parents sued the program. It has not been possible to determine whether they won in court.
Source:
Deaths in the 1990s - Fornits Wiki database
VisionQuest sued over teen's death, Lodi News-Sentinel - 3 Jun 1991
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Robert Doyle Erwin - 1980
Together with 6 other teenagers and some staff members from Visionquest, Robert Doyle Erwin died in the Gulf of California, when the boat he was sent on went down with all hands lost.
Was it sound to sent such a untrained crew out in such dangerous waters? Maybe! But still today you find many companies in different countries sending so-called at-risk teenagers out sailing in foreign waters.
In May 2008 the authorities in Spain found a Danish boy wandering around on a normally deserted island. Further investigation revealed that he had been marooned for some days so he could think about his behavior onboard the ship. Responsible behavior on the part of the staff? Some might at least state that it is questionable.
For the family of Robert Doyle Erwin the downing in the Gulf of California was a tragedy they had to share with 6 other families. Hopefully this tragedy will never be repeated.
References:
Victims - 1980's (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora Wiki)
Teen's sailing tour ends in storm disaster, Star-News - 28 Nov 1980
Un menor es abandonado en un islote en Fuerteventura como castigo por portarse mal, diario direct, May 22 - 2008 (In Spanish)
Was it sound to sent such a untrained crew out in such dangerous waters? Maybe! But still today you find many companies in different countries sending so-called at-risk teenagers out sailing in foreign waters.
In May 2008 the authorities in Spain found a Danish boy wandering around on a normally deserted island. Further investigation revealed that he had been marooned for some days so he could think about his behavior onboard the ship. Responsible behavior on the part of the staff? Some might at least state that it is questionable.
For the family of Robert Doyle Erwin the downing in the Gulf of California was a tragedy they had to share with 6 other families. Hopefully this tragedy will never be repeated.
References:
Victims - 1980's (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora Wiki)
Teen's sailing tour ends in storm disaster, Star-News - 28 Nov 1980
Un menor es abandonado en un islote en Fuerteventura como castigo por portarse mal, diario direct, May 22 - 2008 (In Spanish)
Friday, October 8, 2010
Kasey Ryan Warner - 2005
When 13 year old Kasey Ryan Warner downed in a bathtop with only 10 inches of water it was clear for all involved that it was time for guidelines so such a tragedy could not occur again.
For once the politicians did what you could expect from them. They did sit down and wrote a new set of guidelines. Kasey Warner should not have died in vain.
But an article published a year later reveals that the owner of the facility Kasey Warner died in - a certain Viaquest - did not take these new guidelines serious.
The state started to shut some of the group homes down much to the protest of the owner, but what would have been the alternative? Letting it pass and end up with another downed teenager?
References:
Victims 2005 - 2009 (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora Wiki)
State Cuts Deal To Close Group Homes (Coral and Opal blog, July 27, 2006)
State deal will close five group homes (THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH, July 27, 2006)
For once the politicians did what you could expect from them. They did sit down and wrote a new set of guidelines. Kasey Warner should not have died in vain.
But an article published a year later reveals that the owner of the facility Kasey Warner died in - a certain Viaquest - did not take these new guidelines serious.
The state started to shut some of the group homes down much to the protest of the owner, but what would have been the alternative? Letting it pass and end up with another downed teenager?
References:
Victims 2005 - 2009 (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora Wiki)
State Cuts Deal To Close Group Homes (Coral and Opal blog, July 27, 2006)
State deal will close five group homes (THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH, July 27, 2006)
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Leon Anger - 1984
Time covers almost all tracks when it comes to hiding up a tragedy.
Records show that Leon Anger died at Vision Quest a large firm working to "rebilitate" minors and he was one of the minors who died in the so-called care of Vision Quest.
Another site shortly state:
Leon Anger, Vanango County Pennsylvania, seventeen years old, September 16 1984, runaway/drowning
We don't know if he did run away from the program or it was a cover up.
If we look at the disappearances from CEDU during that period later police investigation has proved that the child murderer had access to CEDU-campuses when the children started to disappear.
Back then there was no Megan-law. There was no legislation so people knew where child offenders were living or more important where they worked.
References:
Victims in the 1980s (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora Wiki)
Why are these children dying? (I was just a child....)
Records show that Leon Anger died at Vision Quest a large firm working to "rebilitate" minors and he was one of the minors who died in the so-called care of Vision Quest.
Another site shortly state:
Leon Anger, Vanango County Pennsylvania, seventeen years old, September 16 1984, runaway/drowning
We don't know if he did run away from the program or it was a cover up.
If we look at the disappearances from CEDU during that period later police investigation has proved that the child murderer had access to CEDU-campuses when the children started to disappear.
Back then there was no Megan-law. There was no legislation so people knew where child offenders were living or more important where they worked.
References:
Victims in the 1980s (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora Wiki)
Why are these children dying? (I was just a child....)
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