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California law, causing the deaths of Nycholas and his mother, 16-year-old Alissa Parraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa and Nycholas \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948187/california-teen-mother-baby-murdered-gang-related-mass-shooting\">were murdered\u003c/a> in a violent shooting in the small, unincorporated community of Goshen, west of Visalia, on Jan. 16\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveillance video played at a press conference in February showed Alissa running down the driveway and dropping her son over a fence, before jumping over a chain-link gate in an attempt to escape. In the video, a man with a rifle is seen following them.[aside postID=news_11948187 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/043_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-1020x680.jpg']Deputies responding to a 911 call found Alissa’s and Nycholas’ bodies in the street. Both had been shot in the head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nycholas, who had been in foster care for most of his life, was returned to his mother just three days earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tulare County Child Welfare Services had taken custody of Nycholas shortly after he was born. Maupin, who lives in Modoc County, where Alissa previously lived, had visited his son and fiancée often in the months leading up to the shooting, according to the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said law enforcement believed the shooting to be a targeted, gang-related attack. His department was familiar with the house where Alissa was living and had recently executed a search warrant there, Boudreaux said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=11958076\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11958076\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958076\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older white man stands at a microphone pointing at a easel\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux provides information during a press conference about the shooting that left 6 people dead in Goshen. \u003ccite>(Joshua Yeager/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23907835-complaint-maupin-lawsuit\">a 48-page complaint (PDF)\u003c/a> filed in Tulare County on Aug. 4, Maupin’s attorneys allege Tulare County Child Welfare Services employees failed to assess the home where Alissa was living with her father’s family before placing Nycholas there “despite the presence of active gang members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If CWS and the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office had discharged their mandatory duties, this tragedy could have been averted,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tulare County, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office and Tulare County Child Welfare Services are named as defendants in the case, along with seven sheriff’s officers, three social workers and a CWS supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency and the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to requests for comment on the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four others were killed in the shooting, including Alissa’s great-uncle, Eladio Parraz, Jr., 52; grandmother, Jennifer Analla, 49; great-grandmother, Rosa Parraz, 72; and cousin, Marcos Parraz, 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maupin’s attorneys allege that months before the shooting a social worker assigned to Nycholas’ case had discovered through a background check that a member of the household had numerous felony convictions and charges but did not notify the juvenile court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were on notice for months and months that there were problematic individuals in that home and they just did nothing with the information,” said Maupin’s attorney, Wyatt Vespermann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nycholas’ paternal grandmother, Valerie Gensel, said her family had wanted partial custody of Nycholas. At a Jan. 13 juvenile court hearing, Nycholas was instead returned full-time to Alissa under county supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days later, they were both murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no justice. There’s nothing that can bring them back,” Gensel said. “It’s like taking your soul in and out of your body over and over, watching it. It breaks you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also alleges Tulare County sheriff’s deputies failed to report suspected child abuse or neglect to CWS 13 days before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958075\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=11958075\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11958075\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two teenagers, one girl and one boy, hold an infant\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Maupin, Alissa Parraz and their son Nycholas Parraz Maupin pose for a photo in May of 2022, when Shayne met his son for the first time. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Valerie Gensel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to a report reviewed by KQED, sheriff’s deputies looking for Alissa’s grandfather, Martin Peña Parraz, who had an active parole warrant, encountered his brother, Eladio Parraz Jr., in the driveway of the house on Jan. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Martin and his brother Eladio Parraz are documented Sureño gang members in Tulare County,” a deputy wrote in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A search of a trailer on the property belonging to Parraz Jr. turned up an illegal gun, ammunition, methamphetamine, pipes for smoking meth, body armor and 10 bags of marijuana, according to the report. Parraz Jr. was arrested and released on bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa and another minor were at the house at the time of the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement is required to report suspected child abuse or neglect under \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/info_bulletins/2020-dle-17.pdf?\">the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (PDF)\u003c/a>. Deputies did not contact Child Welfare Services because, according to Tulare County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Ashley Ritchie, the drugs and guns were found in the trailer and not in the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trailer, one of two on the property, was a “completely different residence from where Alissa was living,” Ritchie told KQED in a Feb. 17 email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had the drugs, guns been found inside the home at the time of the check, we would have contacted CWS. But they were not. They were found in the trailer, which was separated from the house and fenced off,” she wrote in another email on March 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maupin’s attorney, Wyatt Vespermann, said officers who did not contact CWS missed an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw a young mother with a baby crib in her bedroom, in a house with meth and methamphetamine pipes, body armor, AR rifles with no serial numbers on them, bullet holes in the wall — just a long list of red flags,” Vespermann said. “The law requires them to pick up the phone and let Child Protective Services know that this is what’s going on with Alissa and they just didn’t do it.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Attorney Wyatt Vespermann\"]‘There is a pattern and practice of indifference with respect to the lives of infants.’[/pullquote]Two suspected gunmen, 35-year-old Angel Joseph Uriarte and 25-year-old Noah David-Hamilton Beard, were arrested in February. They were charged with six counts of first degree murder with special circumstances, among other charges. Both pleaded not guilty. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit names seven other children whom Vespermann said have died, or nearly died, while in the care, custody or control of Tulare County Child Welfare Services within the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, 3-year-old Journey Gonzalez, suffered “near brain death” as an infant in 2020 after social workers failed to follow-up on reports that he showed signs of malnutrition while in the custody of his parents, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23907836-complaint-sanchez-lawsuit\">a 2021 lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> filed through his grandmother, Patrizia Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s parents did not believe in modern medicine and opted for feeding him fruits and vegetables over breast milk, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Tulare County \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-30/tulare-county-california-pays-baby-32-million-settlement\">settled the lawsuit for $32 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within weeks of the shooting in Goshen, Sanchez also reached out to Maupin’s mother, Valerie Gensel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was awful to speak to her and hear her cry,” Sanchez said. “I just wanted to tell her whatever she does, do not give up. I want to build up a group of victims to come together. I was just a listening ear with her. She was just distraught. It was awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi LLP, the Los Angeles law firm that represented Sanchez in the case, is now representing Maupin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a pattern and practice of indifference with respect to the lives of infants” in Tulare County, Vespermann said, adding that he has seen issues with California’s child welfare system through other cases in different counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a fragmented patchwork system,” he continued. “Each county is doing their own thing and for the most part, they’re doing it poorly. I don’t know why the system has been designed to be so disjointed and fragmented, but the results are very, very poor for these children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Alissa Parraz, and her son, Nycholas, were killed in a January mass shooting at a Tulare County home known to law enforcement for gang activity. Tulare County Child Welfare Services had placed the child in the home 3 days earlier. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1691806717,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1443},"headData":{"title":"Father Sues Tulare County for Wrongful Deaths of Infant Son, 16-Year-Old Fiancée, in Central Valley Massacre | KQED","description":"Alissa Parraz, and her son, Nycholas, were killed in a January mass shooting at a Tulare County home known to law enforcement for gang activity. Tulare County Child Welfare Services had placed the child in the home 3 days earlier. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11958070/father-sues-tulare-county-for-wrongful-deaths-of-infant-son-16-year-old-fiancee-in-central-valley-massacre","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The father of an infant murdered in a gang-related mass shooting in the Central Valley is suing the county that placed his son in the home just days before it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shayne Maupin, the father of 10-month-old Nycholas Parraz, alleges Tulare County social workers and sheriff’s deputies failed to fulfill their mandatory duties under California law, causing the deaths of Nycholas and his mother, 16-year-old Alissa Parraz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa and Nycholas \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948187/california-teen-mother-baby-murdered-gang-related-mass-shooting\">were murdered\u003c/a> in a violent shooting in the small, unincorporated community of Goshen, west of Visalia, on Jan. 16\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surveillance video played at a press conference in February showed Alissa running down the driveway and dropping her son over a fence, before jumping over a chain-link gate in an attempt to escape. In the video, a man with a rifle is seen following them.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11948187","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/043_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Deputies responding to a 911 call found Alissa’s and Nycholas’ bodies in the street. Both had been shot in the head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nycholas, who had been in foster care for most of his life, was returned to his mother just three days earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tulare County Child Welfare Services had taken custody of Nycholas shortly after he was born. Maupin, who lives in Modoc County, where Alissa previously lived, had visited his son and fiancée often in the months leading up to the shooting, according to the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said law enforcement believed the shooting to be a targeted, gang-related attack. His department was familiar with the house where Alissa was living and had recently executed a search warrant there, Boudreaux said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=11958076\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11958076\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958076\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut.jpg\" alt=\"an older white man stands at a microphone pointing at a easel\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64477_003_KVPRJoshuaYeager_DSC_2402-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux provides information during a press conference about the shooting that left 6 people dead in Goshen. \u003ccite>(Joshua Yeager/KVPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23907835-complaint-maupin-lawsuit\">a 48-page complaint (PDF)\u003c/a> filed in Tulare County on Aug. 4, Maupin’s attorneys allege Tulare County Child Welfare Services employees failed to assess the home where Alissa was living with her father’s family before placing Nycholas there “despite the presence of active gang members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If CWS and the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office had discharged their mandatory duties, this tragedy could have been averted,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tulare County, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office and Tulare County Child Welfare Services are named as defendants in the case, along with seven sheriff’s officers, three social workers and a CWS supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency and the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to requests for comment on the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four others were killed in the shooting, including Alissa’s great-uncle, Eladio Parraz, Jr., 52; grandmother, Jennifer Analla, 49; great-grandmother, Rosa Parraz, 72; and cousin, Marcos Parraz, 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maupin’s attorneys allege that months before the shooting a social worker assigned to Nycholas’ case had discovered through a background check that a member of the household had numerous felony convictions and charges but did not notify the juvenile court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were on notice for months and months that there were problematic individuals in that home and they just did nothing with the information,” said Maupin’s attorney, Wyatt Vespermann.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nycholas’ paternal grandmother, Valerie Gensel, said her family had wanted partial custody of Nycholas. At a Jan. 13 juvenile court hearing, Nycholas was instead returned full-time to Alissa under county supervision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three days later, they were both murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no justice. There’s nothing that can bring them back,” Gensel said. “It’s like taking your soul in and out of your body over and over, watching it. It breaks you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit also alleges Tulare County sheriff’s deputies failed to report suspected child abuse or neglect to CWS 13 days before the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958075\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=11958075\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11958075\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958075\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two teenagers, one girl and one boy, hold an infant\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS64897_047_KQED_AlturasCalifornia_03172023-qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shayne Maupin, Alissa Parraz and their son Nycholas Parraz Maupin pose for a photo in May of 2022, when Shayne met his son for the first time. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Valerie Gensel)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to a report reviewed by KQED, sheriff’s deputies looking for Alissa’s grandfather, Martin Peña Parraz, who had an active parole warrant, encountered his brother, Eladio Parraz Jr., in the driveway of the house on Jan. 3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Martin and his brother Eladio Parraz are documented Sureño gang members in Tulare County,” a deputy wrote in the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A search of a trailer on the property belonging to Parraz Jr. turned up an illegal gun, ammunition, methamphetamine, pipes for smoking meth, body armor and 10 bags of marijuana, according to the report. Parraz Jr. was arrested and released on bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alissa and another minor were at the house at the time of the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement is required to report suspected child abuse or neglect under \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/info_bulletins/2020-dle-17.pdf?\">the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (PDF)\u003c/a>. Deputies did not contact Child Welfare Services because, according to Tulare County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Ashley Ritchie, the drugs and guns were found in the trailer and not in the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trailer, one of two on the property, was a “completely different residence from where Alissa was living,” Ritchie told KQED in a Feb. 17 email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Had the drugs, guns been found inside the home at the time of the check, we would have contacted CWS. But they were not. They were found in the trailer, which was separated from the house and fenced off,” she wrote in another email on March 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maupin’s attorney, Wyatt Vespermann, said officers who did not contact CWS missed an opportunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They saw a young mother with a baby crib in her bedroom, in a house with meth and methamphetamine pipes, body armor, AR rifles with no serial numbers on them, bullet holes in the wall — just a long list of red flags,” Vespermann said. “The law requires them to pick up the phone and let Child Protective Services know that this is what’s going on with Alissa and they just didn’t do it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There is a pattern and practice of indifference with respect to the lives of infants.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Attorney Wyatt Vespermann","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two suspected gunmen, 35-year-old Angel Joseph Uriarte and 25-year-old Noah David-Hamilton Beard, were arrested in February. They were charged with six counts of first degree murder with special circumstances, among other charges. Both pleaded not guilty. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit names seven other children whom Vespermann said have died, or nearly died, while in the care, custody or control of Tulare County Child Welfare Services within the past three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, 3-year-old Journey Gonzalez, suffered “near brain death” as an infant in 2020 after social workers failed to follow-up on reports that he showed signs of malnutrition while in the custody of his parents, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23907836-complaint-sanchez-lawsuit\">a 2021 lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> filed through his grandmother, Patrizia Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez’s parents did not believe in modern medicine and opted for feeding him fruits and vegetables over breast milk, according to court records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Tulare County \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-30/tulare-county-california-pays-baby-32-million-settlement\">settled the lawsuit for $32 million\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within weeks of the shooting in Goshen, Sanchez also reached out to Maupin’s mother, Valerie Gensel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was awful to speak to her and hear her cry,” Sanchez said. “I just wanted to tell her whatever she does, do not give up. I want to build up a group of victims to come together. I was just a listening ear with her. She was just distraught. It was awful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi LLP, the Los Angeles law firm that represented Sanchez in the case, is now representing Maupin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a pattern and practice of indifference with respect to the lives of infants” in Tulare County, Vespermann said, adding that he has seen issues with California’s child welfare system through other cases in different counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a fragmented patchwork system,” he continued. “Each county is doing their own thing and for the most part, they’re doing it poorly. I don’t know why the system has been designed to be so disjointed and fragmented, but the results are very, very poor for these children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11958070/father-sues-tulare-county-for-wrongful-deaths-of-infant-son-16-year-old-fiancee-in-central-valley-massacre","authors":["11490"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_5559","news_21721","news_29941"],"featImg":"news_11954613","label":"news"},"news_11885782":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11885782","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11885782","score":null,"sort":[1629845710000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"this-is-who-he-is-mara-reinhardt-reveals-extent-of-alleged-family-abuse-by-prominent-sf-politico-nate-ballard","title":"‘This Is Who He Is’: Mara Reinhardt Reveals Extent of Alleged Family Abuse by Prominent SF Politico Nate Ballard","publishDate":1629845710,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of alleged violent domestic abuse toward women and children and disturbing language.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]ver since former spokesperson-for-hire Nate Ballard's arrest in October last year, for allegedly assaulting his wife and attempting to smother his child with a pillow in an incident at a Napa resort, the public relations expert has done what he does best:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's talked to media. He's talked to the public. He's talked to his allies in San Francisco government. In every case, Ballard — who served as a top aide to Gov. Gavin Newsom while Newsom was mayor of San Francisco — has characterized the event as a misunderstanding brought on by grief and alcohol use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as the legal saga comes to a close nearly a year later, Ballard's wife Mara Reinhardt finally told her side of the harrowing tale in public: She says Ballard abused her and their children for years, subjecting them to psychological torment. Ballard was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Former-Newsom-aide-sentenced-to-probation-in-16398787.php\">sentenced to probation Thursday\u003c/a> after striking a plea deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mara Reinhardt\"]'I lost my way in our relationship and allowed Nate to do unspeakable things to me. I know that Nate, who earns a substantial living as a [PR] expert, is a master spin doctor and would have the court, the public, and probation believe this was a one-time event. I'd feel less shame, less regret, less erosion of myself if it were.'[/pullquote]Reinhardt's victim impact statement, which she read aloud in Napa County Superior Court last week, came after a long list of prominent, politically connected San Franciscans — including the head of a domestic violence shelter and a former city police chief — had continued to back Ballard in a separate but related family court proceeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reinhardt, who filed for divorce shortly after the Napa incident and who agreed to the plea deal — which calls for Ballard to stay away from their two young children for six years — says he is too dangerous to be near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who know me, you know that being up here today is one of the most frightening things I have ever done,\" Reinhardt told the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lost my way in our relationship and allowed Nate to do unspeakable things to me,\" she said. \"I know that Nate, who earns a substantial living as a public relations expert, is a master spin doctor and would have the court, the public, and probation believe this was a one-time event. I'd feel less shame, less regret, less erosion of myself if it were.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a purpose in finally speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am here for our safety and for our protection from Nathan Ballard,\" Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her version of events is dramatically different from Ballard's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard — the former press secretary for Newsom while he was mayor, a former San Francisco deputy city attorney and a former city police union spokesperson — has for months told his side of the story, featuring apologies and explanations that a long-running struggle with alcohol use disorder swayed his behavior. He even, at one point, claimed he fell asleep on his child, countering his wife's accusation that he grabbed a pillow and used his entire body's weight to smother their daughter's face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The allegations made against me by Mara are mostly false, and the remainder are grossly exaggerated,\" Ballard told KQED on Tuesday, in a written statement. \"I never harmed my daughter, and I never would have agreed to any settlement that required me to say that I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I refuse to be sidelined by regrets,\" Ballard added. \"We all fall down sometimes. It is getting back up that matters most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His talk garnered goodwill from allies — including former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, former San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell and the executive director of domestic violence help organization La Casa de las Madres, Kathy Black — who sang his praises in a legal fashion, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">filing attestations to his good character in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They repeatedly told the court they could not imagine him doing the things his wife claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All throughout, Reinhardt, 37, mostly kept her point of view between herself and law enforcement authorities. Reinhardt is a Pilates instructor — and, by her own admission, doesn't have the same skill with words as Ballard, who has made a living spinning stories to his clients' advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt broke her silence by recounting her version of events in the public statement she read aloud in court last Thursday. KQED obtained a transcript of her account, which was submitted to the court but is not a publicly available document. KQED verified the transcription's veracity with Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2,600-word statement, Reinhardt alleged Ballard isolated her from friends and family for years and had physically harmed their children before, to the point where they cower in fear when they see any black Tesla on the street, the same car he drives. Their daughter still wakes in the night confused and crying, and often says she cannot breathe at bedtime, Reinhardt said, indicating ongoing trauma from the pillow-smothering incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement also alleges Ballard, who has made a career representing businesses like the NFL and the Golden State Warriors, made an anti-Black racist comment in the course of trying to control the clients he'd allow Reinhardt to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt declined to comment to KQED, instead opting to let her testimony stand for itself. The names of their children, ages 3 and 5, have been redacted by KQED from her testimony and will not be used, for their protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#statement\">Read Reinhardt's full victim impact statement.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mara Reinhardt recorded herself re-reading her victim impact statement, and shared that recording with KQED. KQED has bleeped out the moments where Reinhardt mentions her children's names. \u003cstrong>Warning: This recording contains graphic descriptions of alleged violent domestic abuse and disturbing language.\u003c/strong> Listen:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/mara-reinhardt-reads-her-victim-impact-statement/embed?style=artwork\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Mara Reinhardt Reads Her Victim Impact Statement\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Skip to: Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not the first time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ballard's defense against Reinhardt's accusations boils down to this: He says the pillow-smothering incident was isolated, due to his alcohol use disorder and exacerbated by the death of his father, and that he is now in a recovery program to heal himself. He denies he assaulted his daughter. He submitted letters from various recovery program staff and logs of his time in such programs, and swore he would one day be a new man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public and to the Napa County court, Ballard has repeatedly denied his wife's version of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will say I am not proud of the way I conducted myself that evening. Mara and I both drank too much,\" Ballard told the court in filings. \"That said, I adamantly deny hurting [my daughter] that evening or at any previous time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am actively engaged in a daily program of recovery,\" he told KQED on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in her statement, Reinhardt said the Oct. 17, 2020, incident was a clear attack, and that it wasn't the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His dark moods were not \"an aberration, as he would have everyone believe,\" she said. His attacks, \"had nothing to do with his father or with alcohol.\" Reinhardt said Ballard would behave this way even when sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is who he is,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mara Reinhardt\"]'He told me I was a disgusting c*** and that training [pro athletes] would ruin his image. That people would think his wife is disgusting. He said that Black people are thugs and that they will rape me.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard allegedly cut Reinhardt off from friends and family. She said he \"isolated\" her, showing up unannounced when she was with friends or her sister and would \"stay until I left.\" At public events he would not allow her to go beyond his sight. Even when she went to the bathroom he would follow her and wait outside the door, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt said Ballard also isolated her in regard to her career and their finances, having all financial correspondence sent to his office so she could not see it. She said he also dictated the clients she coached and forbade her to train professional athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He told me I was a disgusting cunt and that training them would ruin his image,\" she wrote. \"That people would think his wife is disgusting. He said that Black people are thugs and that they will rape me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Ballard's career in public life involves attending parties with politicos, making face time with the wealthy and powerful. His website lists the Golden State Warriors, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.levisstadium.com/2016/02/super-bowl-50-becomes-most-watched-program-in-tv-history/\">Super Bowl 50 event hosted by the late Mayor Ed Lee\u003c/a>, and former Sen. John Kerry as past clients. He served on a board for \u003ca href=\"https://therepproject.org/\">The Representation Project\u003c/a>, started by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. As recently as last week he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Some-California-prison-workers-ordered-to-get-16401824.php\">quoted in a news story\u003c/a> on behalf of one of his clients, the California Correctional Peace Officer's Association, the union that represents state prison officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at San Francisco's frequent galas, balls and various shindigs that he made the connections that kept his name on the lips of the state's power players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt was told by Ballard she would need to attend these events regularly or \"suffer the consequences,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would have to go and sing his praises only to come home [and] have him be angry and abusive,\" she said. \"He would try to make me [have] sex and if I refused, I was scared he would punish me or my kids. I would lock myself in their room to hide from Nate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life with Ballard was unpredictable, she told the court. She lived in fear of Nate's moods and \"wrath.\" He would also make comments about their daughter that Reinhardt described as \"disgusting and creepy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The men are going to love her,\" Reinhardt recounted Ballard saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left their home countless times fearing for her safety, and the safety of her children. She became numb to him, she said, and stayed in their marriage for fear of what he would do to their children if she ever were to leave. When their now 5-year-old daughter was 6 months old, Reinhardt said Ballard told her that if she left him, \"he would kill me and kill [our daughter].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From that moment, I felt trapped,\" she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11807639 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827-1038x576.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Narcissistic, sociopathic fury'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Until Ballard's sentencing last week, Reinhardt had never publicly spoken about the alleged assault of Oct. 17, 2020, nor of Ballard's public defense of his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt and her children were staying at the Carneros Resort and Spa in Napa, and Ballard arrived a bit later the same day. \"He showed up with a look in his eye that I had seen many times before,\" Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expected his behavior to escalate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt spent the afternoon and evening trying to calm Ballard down. He called her \"a cunt, a bitch, a whore as his words and body language became more vile, aggressive, erratic, and scary,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Reinhardt said, \"this was not an argument that got out of hand.\" Instead, it was one of his familiar and unprovoked rages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard has previously said he fell asleep on top of his daughter, a claim he supports with a comment his daughter made to a Napa County detective that she thought she heard him snoring. Reinhardt countered that this story emerged only because she actively tried to shield her daughter from the truth by telling her that the attack was an instance of Ballard becoming sick with COVID, and that they stayed locked in a bedroom to \"keep away from his germs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what I told her to protect her and explain a big scary thing,\" she said. \"It's not because it was anywhere close to what she truly knew had happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Reinhardt said, what happened was this: Ballard, shouting and in a rage, shoved Reinhardt into a glass door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no doubt in my mind that in the final charge towards me, as he had his hands in the air aimed at my neck, that Nate would have killed me that night,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn't finished. Next, Ballard, whom Reinhardt described as a strong, 200-plus-pound man, \"fortified by a narcissistic, sociopathic fury and an unprovoked, blind irrational rage I knew all too well,\" attacked their daughter, shouting and hurling profanities, calling their daughter a \"cunt and a bitch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt saw her daughter lying in bed, her arms flailing, as Ballard held a large pillow on top of her. He leaned on the pillow with his full weight, Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I didn't know was whether I would be able to pull him off of [my daughter] before she stopped breathing,\" Reinhardt said. \"He could have killed her and had I not been there, there is no doubt in my mind that he would have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt said she used all of her strength to push Ballard off their daughter. They escaped to another bedroom where the other child, then 3 years old, was sleeping, and locked the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the arrival of police brought an end to that particular nightmare, the public relations barrage would soon begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nate Ballard\"]'If Mara had taken the stand and made these allegations under oath, we would have destroyed her credibility with mountains of documentary evidence and contradictory statements. But destroying Mara’s credibility would have done little to restore my reputation, so I chose to settle the case and move on.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SF politicos stand up for Ballard\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20190514173239/https://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/inside-men\">A profile of Ballard in \"San Francisco\" magazine's \"Power Issue\"\u003c/a> from December 2016 described him as a \"preeminent media whisperer\" who represents a \"veritable Yellow Pages of powerful clients.\" He's frequently quoted by the press as an insider with intimate knowledge of Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he represented when Newsom was mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his actions in October took a toll. In court documents, Ballard claims his $10 million public relations agency \"collapsed overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His clients? They \"fled,\" he told the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his agency's collapse didn't stop him from tapping some of those friends in high places to help him. More than 40 friends (and some family) wrote mitigation letters in his defense, asking the family court for leniency. That proceeding was separate from the ongoing Napa County criminal court case, but was related as it dealt with the custody of their children, and was legally intertwined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On a personal level, I would say I know him very well and Nate has shown me that he is a good and decent human being,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">wrote Kathy Black\u003c/a>, the more-than-20-year executive director of La Casa de las Madres, a domestic violence support group in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">The organization\u003c/a> provides a 24-hour hotline to domestic abuse survivors, domestic abuse prevention education, and long-term support services. The organization's stated mission is to \"stand for a safer San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her defense of Ballard, Black wrote that \"over that [sic] last two decades, Nate has become a trusted friend, strategist, and ally to La Casa,\" adding, \"While I cannot speak to this case and its very serious allegations, I just do not believe that it is in Nate's nature to hurt anyone — period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr also wrote in defense of Ballard, saying, \"In our many conversations about life, relationships, and family, what couldn't be any clearer is his love for his kids. He is a devoted father.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard has previously represented the police officers' union as a spokesperson, defending Suhr's police force in the public sphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr added, \"I will not comment on Nate's current criminal case in your county as I know nothing more about it other that [sic] what I've read in the papers. I can and will say I don't believe for a minute that it is in Nate to ever hurt anyone; and it is inconceivable to me that he could ever hurt a child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate,\" Suhr wrote, \"is a good man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard's mitigation letters include other movers and shakers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11140354/s-f-police-union-announces-breakdown-in-use-of-force-negotiations\">Martin Halloran\u003c/a>, past president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mark-Farrell-says-brief-tenure-as-SF-mayor-will-12541019.php\">Mark Farrell\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/local/sunday-best/breaking-barriers-for-prieto-its-all-about-hard-work/\">Ramona Prieto\u003c/a>, retired California Highway Patrol deputy commissioner\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/former-supervisor-michela-alioto-pier-district-2\">Michela Alioto-Pier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-garvey-76033956/\">Erin Garvey\u003c/a>, senior director of operations communications at PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-fire.org/people/tom-oconnor\">Tom O'Connor\u003c/a>, past president of San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://therepproject.org/our-board/joanna-rees/\">Joanna Rees\u003c/a>, managing partner at market creation company West and board member of The Representation Project\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins, was a partner in a Danville law firm for 18 years and said she often represented wealthy and well-connected clients. Still, she told KQED, the level of support Ballard garnered from influential people, considering the allegations against him, was \"unusual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letters stink of cronyism and everything that is wrong with the 'rich white boy' politics of San Francisco,\" Bevins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the verdict against Ballard, Napa County Deputy District Attorney Kecia Lind said it's common for high-profile abusers to use their prestige in the community to their advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The abuser uses their prominence to intimidate and further control their victims,\" Lind said. \"[T]hreatening to use their power to continue the abuse and assassination of character of the victims are features used to deflect personal responsibility and accountability for their wrongdoing. The Napa County District Attorney’s Office amplifies the voices of survivors, and this brave survivor refuses to be cowed by continued bullying or minimization of criminal behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard told KQED on Tuesday he could have \"destroyed\" Reinhardt's credibility if he had not chosen to settle the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Mara had taken the stand and made these allegations under oath, we would have destroyed her credibility with mountains of documentary evidence and contradictory statements,\" Ballard wrote. \"But destroying Mara’s credibility would have done little to restore my reputation, so I chose to settle the case and move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing prominent people in power defend her former husband strikes fear in Reinhardt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate always makes sure that everyone knows that he is highly connected to powerful people: The Governor, The Vice President, various Congressmen and Women, Senators, Mayors, SF Police Chief, District Attorneys, many more people of influence in both the political and private world,\" Reinhardt said in her statement. \"He was written up as one of the 10 most powerful people in San Francisco. He never let me forget it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, in order for Reinhardt to secure an agreement from Ballard to not see their children for six years, she agreed to withdraw a domestic violence restraining order she had filed after the assault, and to take the unusual step of sealing the declaration attached to the order's petition. Without the information from that declaration being in the public sphere, Ballard has more ability to control the narrative — a tactic Reinhardt says she knows all too well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement to withdraw the restraining order and seal Reinhardt's declaration was \"totally motivated\" by Ballard's own desire to protect his image, Bevins alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Long after we leave here today,\" Reinhardt said, \"I know that Nate will spend his life trying to spin yet another story, to destroy me, the children, and most likely anyone associated with this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two years, the family law court may consider allowing Ballard to have contact with his two young children again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"statement\">\u003c/a>Read Mara Reinhardt's full victim impact statement, which she read aloud in Napa County Superior Court on Aug. 19:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/21048306-victim-impact-statement-redacted/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\" title=\"victim-impact-statement-redacted (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" width=\"800\" height=\"905\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 100%; height: 800px; height: calc(100vh - 100px);\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have you been or are you being harmed by domestic violence? Find help via these resources, in the Bay Area and beyond:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://centerfordomesticpeace.org/\">Center for Domestic Peace\u003c/a>: Call their 24/7 English-Spanish hotline at (415) 924-6616. Shelter requests are handled via this number, as are appointments for legal advocacy services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.roclinic.org/\">Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic\u003c/a>: CROC provides free legal services to domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking survivors: (415) 969-6711.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://fvlc.org/\">Family Violence Law Center\u003c/a>: Call (800) 947-8301 for legal services as well as 24-hour crisis intervention and support.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">La Casa de las Madres\u003c/a>: For support, resources and safety planning, call their 24/7 hotline at (877) 503-1850. You can also contact them via text at (415) 200-3575.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thehotline.org/\">The National Domestic Violence Hotline\u003c/a>: Call (800) 799-7233, or (800) 799-7233 for TTY, or if you’re unable to speak safely, go online or text LOVEIS to 22522.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.standffov.org/\">STAND! For Families Free of Violence, Contra Costa County\u003c/a>: STAND's toll-free crisis line remains active 24 hours a day at (888) 215-5555.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.womaninc.org/\">WOMAN, Inc. (Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent)\u003c/a>: Offers 24/7 support line services, remote counseling via Zoom, Google Hangouts and phone calls in English and Spanish at (877) 384-3578.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a harrowing victim impact statement she read in court, Reinhardt said the abuse she and her children suffered from Ballard — who's been defended by his powerful political connections — was far from an isolated incident.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1629850070,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/21048306-victim-impact-statement-redacted/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":90,"wordCount":3558},"headData":{"title":"‘This Is Who He Is’: Mara Reinhardt Reveals Extent of Alleged Family Abuse by Prominent SF Politico Nate Ballard | KQED","description":"In a harrowing victim impact statement she read in court, Reinhardt said the abuse she and her children suffered from Ballard — who's been defended by his powerful political connections — was far from an isolated incident.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11885782 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11885782","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/08/24/this-is-who-he-is-mara-reinhardt-reveals-extent-of-alleged-family-abuse-by-prominent-sf-politico-nate-ballard/","disqusTitle":"‘This Is Who He Is’: Mara Reinhardt Reveals Extent of Alleged Family Abuse by Prominent SF Politico Nate Ballard","path":"/news/11885782/this-is-who-he-is-mara-reinhardt-reveals-extent-of-alleged-family-abuse-by-prominent-sf-politico-nate-ballard","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions of alleged violent domestic abuse toward women and children and disturbing language.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">E\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ver since former spokesperson-for-hire Nate Ballard's arrest in October last year, for allegedly assaulting his wife and attempting to smother his child with a pillow in an incident at a Napa resort, the public relations expert has done what he does best:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's talked to media. He's talked to the public. He's talked to his allies in San Francisco government. In every case, Ballard — who served as a top aide to Gov. Gavin Newsom while Newsom was mayor of San Francisco — has characterized the event as a misunderstanding brought on by grief and alcohol use disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as the legal saga comes to a close nearly a year later, Ballard's wife Mara Reinhardt finally told her side of the harrowing tale in public: She says Ballard abused her and their children for years, subjecting them to psychological torment. Ballard was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Former-Newsom-aide-sentenced-to-probation-in-16398787.php\">sentenced to probation Thursday\u003c/a> after striking a plea deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I lost my way in our relationship and allowed Nate to do unspeakable things to me. I know that Nate, who earns a substantial living as a [PR] expert, is a master spin doctor and would have the court, the public, and probation believe this was a one-time event. I'd feel less shame, less regret, less erosion of myself if it were.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Mara Reinhardt","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Reinhardt's victim impact statement, which she read aloud in Napa County Superior Court last week, came after a long list of prominent, politically connected San Franciscans — including the head of a domestic violence shelter and a former city police chief — had continued to back Ballard in a separate but related family court proceeding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Reinhardt, who filed for divorce shortly after the Napa incident and who agreed to the plea deal — which calls for Ballard to stay away from their two young children for six years — says he is too dangerous to be near them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For those who know me, you know that being up here today is one of the most frightening things I have ever done,\" Reinhardt told the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lost my way in our relationship and allowed Nate to do unspeakable things to me,\" she said. \"I know that Nate, who earns a substantial living as a public relations expert, is a master spin doctor and would have the court, the public, and probation believe this was a one-time event. I'd feel less shame, less regret, less erosion of myself if it were.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had a purpose in finally speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am here for our safety and for our protection from Nathan Ballard,\" Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her version of events is dramatically different from Ballard's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard — the former press secretary for Newsom while he was mayor, a former San Francisco deputy city attorney and a former city police union spokesperson — has for months told his side of the story, featuring apologies and explanations that a long-running struggle with alcohol use disorder swayed his behavior. He even, at one point, claimed he fell asleep on his child, countering his wife's accusation that he grabbed a pillow and used his entire body's weight to smother their daughter's face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The allegations made against me by Mara are mostly false, and the remainder are grossly exaggerated,\" Ballard told KQED on Tuesday, in a written statement. \"I never harmed my daughter, and I never would have agreed to any settlement that required me to say that I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I refuse to be sidelined by regrets,\" Ballard added. \"We all fall down sometimes. It is getting back up that matters most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His talk garnered goodwill from allies — including former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, former San Francisco Mayor Mark Farrell and the executive director of domestic violence help organization La Casa de las Madres, Kathy Black — who sang his praises in a legal fashion, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">filing attestations to his good character in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They repeatedly told the court they could not imagine him doing the things his wife claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All throughout, Reinhardt, 37, mostly kept her point of view between herself and law enforcement authorities. Reinhardt is a Pilates instructor — and, by her own admission, doesn't have the same skill with words as Ballard, who has made a living spinning stories to his clients' advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt broke her silence by recounting her version of events in the public statement she read aloud in court last Thursday. KQED obtained a transcript of her account, which was submitted to the court but is not a publicly available document. KQED verified the transcription's veracity with Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2,600-word statement, Reinhardt alleged Ballard isolated her from friends and family for years and had physically harmed their children before, to the point where they cower in fear when they see any black Tesla on the street, the same car he drives. Their daughter still wakes in the night confused and crying, and often says she cannot breathe at bedtime, Reinhardt said, indicating ongoing trauma from the pillow-smothering incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement also alleges Ballard, who has made a career representing businesses like the NFL and the Golden State Warriors, made an anti-Black racist comment in the course of trying to control the clients he'd allow Reinhardt to take.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt declined to comment to KQED, instead opting to let her testimony stand for itself. The names of their children, ages 3 and 5, have been redacted by KQED from her testimony and will not be used, for their protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#statement\">Read Reinhardt's full victim impact statement.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mara Reinhardt recorded herself re-reading her victim impact statement, and shared that recording with KQED. KQED has bleeped out the moments where Reinhardt mentions her children's names. \u003cstrong>Warning: This recording contains graphic descriptions of alleged violent domestic abuse and disturbing language.\u003c/strong> Listen:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/mara-reinhardt-reads-her-victim-impact-statement/embed?style=artwork\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Mara Reinhardt Reads Her Victim Impact Statement\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#resources\">Skip to: Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Not the first time\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Ballard's defense against Reinhardt's accusations boils down to this: He says the pillow-smothering incident was isolated, due to his alcohol use disorder and exacerbated by the death of his father, and that he is now in a recovery program to heal himself. He denies he assaulted his daughter. He submitted letters from various recovery program staff and logs of his time in such programs, and swore he would one day be a new man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In public and to the Napa County court, Ballard has repeatedly denied his wife's version of events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will say I am not proud of the way I conducted myself that evening. Mara and I both drank too much,\" Ballard told the court in filings. \"That said, I adamantly deny hurting [my daughter] that evening or at any previous time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am actively engaged in a daily program of recovery,\" he told KQED on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in her statement, Reinhardt said the Oct. 17, 2020, incident was a clear attack, and that it wasn't the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His dark moods were not \"an aberration, as he would have everyone believe,\" she said. His attacks, \"had nothing to do with his father or with alcohol.\" Reinhardt said Ballard would behave this way even when sober.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is who he is,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'He told me I was a disgusting c*** and that training [pro athletes] would ruin his image. That people would think his wife is disgusting. He said that Black people are thugs and that they will rape me.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Mara Reinhardt","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard allegedly cut Reinhardt off from friends and family. She said he \"isolated\" her, showing up unannounced when she was with friends or her sister and would \"stay until I left.\" At public events he would not allow her to go beyond his sight. Even when she went to the bathroom he would follow her and wait outside the door, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt said Ballard also isolated her in regard to her career and their finances, having all financial correspondence sent to his office so she could not see it. She said he also dictated the clients she coached and forbade her to train professional athletes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He told me I was a disgusting cunt and that training them would ruin his image,\" she wrote. \"That people would think his wife is disgusting. He said that Black people are thugs and that they will rape me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of Ballard's career in public life involves attending parties with politicos, making face time with the wealthy and powerful. His website lists the Golden State Warriors, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.levisstadium.com/2016/02/super-bowl-50-becomes-most-watched-program-in-tv-history/\">Super Bowl 50 event hosted by the late Mayor Ed Lee\u003c/a>, and former Sen. John Kerry as past clients. He served on a board for \u003ca href=\"https://therepproject.org/\">The Representation Project\u003c/a>, started by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. As recently as last week he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Some-California-prison-workers-ordered-to-get-16401824.php\">quoted in a news story\u003c/a> on behalf of one of his clients, the California Correctional Peace Officer's Association, the union that represents state prison officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at San Francisco's frequent galas, balls and various shindigs that he made the connections that kept his name on the lips of the state's power players.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt was told by Ballard she would need to attend these events regularly or \"suffer the consequences,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would have to go and sing his praises only to come home [and] have him be angry and abusive,\" she said. \"He would try to make me [have] sex and if I refused, I was scared he would punish me or my kids. I would lock myself in their room to hide from Nate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Life with Ballard was unpredictable, she told the court. She lived in fear of Nate's moods and \"wrath.\" He would also make comments about their daughter that Reinhardt described as \"disgusting and creepy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The men are going to love her,\" Reinhardt recounted Ballard saying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left their home countless times fearing for her safety, and the safety of her children. She became numb to him, she said, and stayed in their marriage for fear of what he would do to their children if she ever were to leave. When their now 5-year-old daughter was 6 months old, Reinhardt said Ballard told her that if she left him, \"he would kill me and kill [our daughter].\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From that moment, I felt trapped,\" she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11807639","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/004_KQED_DomesticAbuse_StagedPhoto_03232020_9827-1038x576.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>'Narcissistic, sociopathic fury'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Until Ballard's sentencing last week, Reinhardt had never publicly spoken about the alleged assault of Oct. 17, 2020, nor of Ballard's public defense of his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt and her children were staying at the Carneros Resort and Spa in Napa, and Ballard arrived a bit later the same day. \"He showed up with a look in his eye that I had seen many times before,\" Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She expected his behavior to escalate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt spent the afternoon and evening trying to calm Ballard down. He called her \"a cunt, a bitch, a whore as his words and body language became more vile, aggressive, erratic, and scary,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Reinhardt said, \"this was not an argument that got out of hand.\" Instead, it was one of his familiar and unprovoked rages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard has previously said he fell asleep on top of his daughter, a claim he supports with a comment his daughter made to a Napa County detective that she thought she heard him snoring. Reinhardt countered that this story emerged only because she actively tried to shield her daughter from the truth by telling her that the attack was an instance of Ballard becoming sick with COVID, and that they stayed locked in a bedroom to \"keep away from his germs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is what I told her to protect her and explain a big scary thing,\" she said. \"It's not because it was anywhere close to what she truly knew had happened.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Reinhardt said, what happened was this: Ballard, shouting and in a rage, shoved Reinhardt into a glass door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no doubt in my mind that in the final charge towards me, as he had his hands in the air aimed at my neck, that Nate would have killed me that night,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wasn't finished. Next, Ballard, whom Reinhardt described as a strong, 200-plus-pound man, \"fortified by a narcissistic, sociopathic fury and an unprovoked, blind irrational rage I knew all too well,\" attacked their daughter, shouting and hurling profanities, calling their daughter a \"cunt and a bitch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt saw her daughter lying in bed, her arms flailing, as Ballard held a large pillow on top of her. He leaned on the pillow with his full weight, Reinhardt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I didn't know was whether I would be able to pull him off of [my daughter] before she stopped breathing,\" Reinhardt said. \"He could have killed her and had I not been there, there is no doubt in my mind that he would have.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt said she used all of her strength to push Ballard off their daughter. They escaped to another bedroom where the other child, then 3 years old, was sleeping, and locked the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the arrival of police brought an end to that particular nightmare, the public relations barrage would soon begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If Mara had taken the stand and made these allegations under oath, we would have destroyed her credibility with mountains of documentary evidence and contradictory statements. But destroying Mara’s credibility would have done little to restore my reputation, so I chose to settle the case and move on.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Nate Ballard","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SF politicos stand up for Ballard\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://web.archive.org/web/20190514173239/https://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/inside-men\">A profile of Ballard in \"San Francisco\" magazine's \"Power Issue\"\u003c/a> from December 2016 described him as a \"preeminent media whisperer\" who represents a \"veritable Yellow Pages of powerful clients.\" He's frequently quoted by the press as an insider with intimate knowledge of Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he represented when Newsom was mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet his actions in October took a toll. In court documents, Ballard claims his $10 million public relations agency \"collapsed overnight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His clients? They \"fled,\" he told the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his agency's collapse didn't stop him from tapping some of those friends in high places to help him. More than 40 friends (and some family) wrote mitigation letters in his defense, asking the family court for leniency. That proceeding was separate from the ongoing Napa County criminal court case, but was related as it dealt with the custody of their children, and was legally intertwined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"On a personal level, I would say I know him very well and Nate has shown me that he is a good and decent human being,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21048384-nathan-ballard-mitigation-letters-march-1-redacted?responsive=1&title=1\">wrote Kathy Black\u003c/a>, the more-than-20-year executive director of La Casa de las Madres, a domestic violence support group in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">The organization\u003c/a> provides a 24-hour hotline to domestic abuse survivors, domestic abuse prevention education, and long-term support services. The organization's stated mission is to \"stand for a safer San Francisco.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her defense of Ballard, Black wrote that \"over that [sic] last two decades, Nate has become a trusted friend, strategist, and ally to La Casa,\" adding, \"While I cannot speak to this case and its very serious allegations, I just do not believe that it is in Nate's nature to hurt anyone — period.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr also wrote in defense of Ballard, saying, \"In our many conversations about life, relationships, and family, what couldn't be any clearer is his love for his kids. He is a devoted father.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard has previously represented the police officers' union as a spokesperson, defending Suhr's police force in the public sphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suhr added, \"I will not comment on Nate's current criminal case in your county as I know nothing more about it other that [sic] what I've read in the papers. I can and will say I don't believe for a minute that it is in Nate to ever hurt anyone; and it is inconceivable to me that he could ever hurt a child.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate,\" Suhr wrote, \"is a good man.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard's mitigation letters include other movers and shakers:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11140354/s-f-police-union-announces-breakdown-in-use-of-force-negotiations\">Martin Halloran\u003c/a>, past president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mark-Farrell-says-brief-tenure-as-SF-mayor-will-12541019.php\">Mark Farrell\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/local/sunday-best/breaking-barriers-for-prieto-its-all-about-hard-work/\">Ramona Prieto\u003c/a>, retired California Highway Patrol deputy commissioner\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Former San Francisco Supervisor \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/former-supervisor-michela-alioto-pier-district-2\">Michela Alioto-Pier\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-garvey-76033956/\">Erin Garvey\u003c/a>, senior director of operations communications at PG&E\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sf-fire.org/people/tom-oconnor\">Tom O'Connor\u003c/a>, past president of San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://therepproject.org/our-board/joanna-rees/\">Joanna Rees\u003c/a>, managing partner at market creation company West and board member of The Representation Project\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Reinhardt's attorney, Amanda Bevins, was a partner in a Danville law firm for 18 years and said she often represented wealthy and well-connected clients. Still, she told KQED, the level of support Ballard garnered from influential people, considering the allegations against him, was \"unusual.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The letters stink of cronyism and everything that is wrong with the 'rich white boy' politics of San Francisco,\" Bevins said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the verdict against Ballard, Napa County Deputy District Attorney Kecia Lind said it's common for high-profile abusers to use their prestige in the community to their advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The abuser uses their prominence to intimidate and further control their victims,\" Lind said. \"[T]hreatening to use their power to continue the abuse and assassination of character of the victims are features used to deflect personal responsibility and accountability for their wrongdoing. The Napa County District Attorney’s Office amplifies the voices of survivors, and this brave survivor refuses to be cowed by continued bullying or minimization of criminal behavior.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ballard told KQED on Tuesday he could have \"destroyed\" Reinhardt's credibility if he had not chosen to settle the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Mara had taken the stand and made these allegations under oath, we would have destroyed her credibility with mountains of documentary evidence and contradictory statements,\" Ballard wrote. \"But destroying Mara’s credibility would have done little to restore my reputation, so I chose to settle the case and move on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing prominent people in power defend her former husband strikes fear in Reinhardt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Nate always makes sure that everyone knows that he is highly connected to powerful people: The Governor, The Vice President, various Congressmen and Women, Senators, Mayors, SF Police Chief, District Attorneys, many more people of influence in both the political and private world,\" Reinhardt said in her statement. \"He was written up as one of the 10 most powerful people in San Francisco. He never let me forget it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, in order for Reinhardt to secure an agreement from Ballard to not see their children for six years, she agreed to withdraw a domestic violence restraining order she had filed after the assault, and to take the unusual step of sealing the declaration attached to the order's petition. Without the information from that declaration being in the public sphere, Ballard has more ability to control the narrative — a tactic Reinhardt says she knows all too well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement to withdraw the restraining order and seal Reinhardt's declaration was \"totally motivated\" by Ballard's own desire to protect his image, Bevins alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Long after we leave here today,\" Reinhardt said, \"I know that Nate will spend his life trying to spin yet another story, to destroy me, the children, and most likely anyone associated with this case.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In two years, the family law court may consider allowing Ballard to have contact with his two young children again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"statement\">\u003c/a>Read Mara Reinhardt's full victim impact statement, which she read aloud in Napa County Superior Court on Aug. 19:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/21048306-victim-impact-statement-redacted/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\" title=\"victim-impact-statement-redacted (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" width=\"800\" height=\"905\" style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 100%; height: 800px; height: calc(100vh - 100px);\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources for survivors of domestic violence\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Have you been or are you being harmed by domestic violence? Find help via these resources, in the Bay Area and beyond:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://centerfordomesticpeace.org/\">Center for Domestic Peace\u003c/a>: Call their 24/7 English-Spanish hotline at (415) 924-6616. Shelter requests are handled via this number, as are appointments for legal advocacy services.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.roclinic.org/\">Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic\u003c/a>: CROC provides free legal services to domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking survivors: (415) 969-6711.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://fvlc.org/\">Family Violence Law Center\u003c/a>: Call (800) 947-8301 for legal services as well as 24-hour crisis intervention and support.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lacasa.org/\">La Casa de las Madres\u003c/a>: For support, resources and safety planning, call their 24/7 hotline at (877) 503-1850. You can also contact them via text at (415) 200-3575.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thehotline.org/\">The National Domestic Violence Hotline\u003c/a>: Call (800) 799-7233, or (800) 799-7233 for TTY, or if you’re unable to speak safely, go online or text LOVEIS to 22522.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.standffov.org/\">STAND! For Families Free of Violence, Contra Costa County\u003c/a>: STAND's toll-free crisis line remains active 24 hours a day at (888) 215-5555.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.womaninc.org/\">WOMAN, Inc. (Women Organized to Make Abuse Nonexistent)\u003c/a>: Offers 24/7 support line services, remote counseling via Zoom, Google Hangouts and phone calls in English and Spanish at (877) 384-3578.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11885782/this-is-who-he-is-mara-reinhardt-reveals-extent-of-alleged-family-abuse-by-prominent-sf-politico-nate-ballard","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_5559","news_18283","news_17759","news_27626","news_29820","news_29819","news_29818","news_17968","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11886130","label":"news"},"news_11815627":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11815627","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11815627","score":null,"sort":[1588773609000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"social-workers-alarmed-by-steep-drop-in-bay-area-child-abuse-hotline-calls-during-pandemic","title":"Bay Area Counties Report Steep Drop in Calls to Child Abuse Hotlines During Pandemic","publishDate":1588773609,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Bay Area counties are reporting a steep drop in calls to their child abuse hotlines since stay-at-home orders took effect, a trend concerning to child welfare advocates who fear many instances of abuse are currently going unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Marin counties have all reported a 50% to 60% drop in calls and referrals in April compared to last year, according to county records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"righ\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Bree Marchman, director of Marin County Health and Human Services Child Welfare Division\"]'We know that child abuse and neglect continue to occur. The fact that our referral numbers are so low suggests that we just aren't hearing about the issues happening.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that child abuse and neglect continue to occur,\" said Bree Marchman, director of Marin County Health and Human Services Child Welfare Division. \"The fact that our referral numbers are so low suggests that we just aren't hearing about the issues happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social service agencies are usually alerted to potential child abuse instances through mandated reporters, like teachers, who are required under state law to call if they have reason to believe a child is being abused. But that's far less likely to happen with kids out of school and families forced to shelter in place due to the coronavirus, Marchman said. She noted that abuse and neglect are more likely to occur during times of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the fact that we’re hearing fewer calls coming in really says to us people aren’t seeing what’s happening,\" Marchman said. \"That makes sense because school teachers, school personnel are the most common reporters to our hotline and now that schools are not in session, they don’t have those natural opportunities to hear from kids that some things aren't going right at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Prevention and Support\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The best way to stop abuse is to get help before things get worse, said Kristin Mateer, executive director of East Bay Children’s Law Offices. Most outreach programs and family resource centers have temporarily moved online and are checking in with families via phone, email and video conference, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"child-abuse\"]\"Parents can call when they’re overwhelmed or stressed out. There are people trained to make referrals to all sorts of services,\" Mateer said. \"The really important part is to get people the help they need before a child would become our client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children who are victims of abuse or neglect often suffer from declining mental health, Mateer said, especially when they can’t access in-person resources and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the issues that falls under abuse and neglect are children with mental issues whose parents can’t meet their needs and aren’t getting them the help they need,” Mateer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bay Area Social Service Hotlines\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://safeandsound.org/covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safe and Sound\u003c/a>: A child abuse prevention program providing 24-hour support to parents and families: 415-441-5437.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://familypaths.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Family Paths\u003c/a>: A stress helpline for parents in need of support: 1-800-829-3777.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crisissupport.org/programs/crisis-line/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crisis Support Services of Alameda County\u003c/a>: To support children suffering from mental health issues and who may be experiencing suicidal thoughts: 1-800-309-2131. There is also a national hotline: 1-800-273-8255.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.standffov.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STAND! For Families Free of Violence\u003c/a>: A 24-hour, toll-free crisis line: 1-888-215-5555.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.first5sf.org/family-resource-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First 5 San Francisco Family Resource Centers\u003c/a>: A network of 26 sites around San Francisco that offer parental support, information and referrals. Many services can currently be access online or by phone, and some sites are offering food and diaper security during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With schools and other youth facilities closed due to COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, calls to Bay Area child abuse hotlines have plummeted.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1588791011,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":621},"headData":{"title":"Bay Area Counties Report Steep Drop in Calls to Child Abuse Hotlines During Pandemic | KQED","description":"Calls to child abuse hotlines have plummeted since shelter in place took effect, but advocates say abuse increases during times of crisis.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11815627 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11815627","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/05/06/social-workers-alarmed-by-steep-drop-in-bay-area-child-abuse-hotline-calls-during-pandemic/","disqusTitle":"Bay Area Counties Report Steep Drop in Calls to Child Abuse Hotlines During Pandemic","path":"/news/11815627/social-workers-alarmed-by-steep-drop-in-bay-area-child-abuse-hotline-calls-during-pandemic","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area counties are reporting a steep drop in calls to their child abuse hotlines since stay-at-home orders took effect, a trend concerning to child welfare advocates who fear many instances of abuse are currently going unreported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Marin counties have all reported a 50% to 60% drop in calls and referrals in April compared to last year, according to county records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We know that child abuse and neglect continue to occur. The fact that our referral numbers are so low suggests that we just aren't hearing about the issues happening.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"righ","size":"medium","citation":"Bree Marchman, director of Marin County Health and Human Services Child Welfare Division","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know that child abuse and neglect continue to occur,\" said Bree Marchman, director of Marin County Health and Human Services Child Welfare Division. \"The fact that our referral numbers are so low suggests that we just aren't hearing about the issues happening.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social service agencies are usually alerted to potential child abuse instances through mandated reporters, like teachers, who are required under state law to call if they have reason to believe a child is being abused. But that's far less likely to happen with kids out of school and families forced to shelter in place due to the coronavirus, Marchman said. She noted that abuse and neglect are more likely to occur during times of crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So the fact that we’re hearing fewer calls coming in really says to us people aren’t seeing what’s happening,\" Marchman said. \"That makes sense because school teachers, school personnel are the most common reporters to our hotline and now that schools are not in session, they don’t have those natural opportunities to hear from kids that some things aren't going right at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Prevention and Support\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The best way to stop abuse is to get help before things get worse, said Kristin Mateer, executive director of East Bay Children’s Law Offices. Most outreach programs and family resource centers have temporarily moved online and are checking in with families via phone, email and video conference, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"child-abuse"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"Parents can call when they’re overwhelmed or stressed out. There are people trained to make referrals to all sorts of services,\" Mateer said. \"The really important part is to get people the help they need before a child would become our client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children who are victims of abuse or neglect often suffer from declining mental health, Mateer said, especially when they can’t access in-person resources and support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the issues that falls under abuse and neglect are children with mental issues whose parents can’t meet their needs and aren’t getting them the help they need,” Mateer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Bay Area Social Service Hotlines\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://safeandsound.org/covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Safe and Sound\u003c/a>: A child abuse prevention program providing 24-hour support to parents and families: 415-441-5437.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://familypaths.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Family Paths\u003c/a>: A stress helpline for parents in need of support: 1-800-829-3777.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crisissupport.org/programs/crisis-line/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crisis Support Services of Alameda County\u003c/a>: To support children suffering from mental health issues and who may be experiencing suicidal thoughts: 1-800-309-2131. There is also a national hotline: 1-800-273-8255.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.standffov.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">STAND! For Families Free of Violence\u003c/a>: A 24-hour, toll-free crisis line: 1-888-215-5555.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.first5sf.org/family-resource-centers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First 5 San Francisco Family Resource Centers\u003c/a>: A network of 26 sites around San Francisco that offer parental support, information and referrals. Many services can currently be access online or by phone, and some sites are offering food and diaper security during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11815627/social-workers-alarmed-by-steep-drop-in-bay-area-child-abuse-hotline-calls-during-pandemic","authors":["11657"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_5559","news_2043","news_27350","news_27504","news_27638","news_27879"],"featImg":"news_11816460","label":"news"},"news_11807392":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11807392","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11807392","score":null,"sort":[1584621155000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"what-happens-when-courthouses-where-abuse-cases-are-heard-shut-down","title":"What Happens When Courthouses That Hear Abuse Cases Shut Down?","publishDate":1584621155,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>It was a scene of confusion and despair early Tuesday morning in front of one of the nation’s largest children’s courthouses in Los Angeles as parents, some with children and babies in tow, stood helplessly outside the closed building. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The notice on the courthouse door says that the court is closed for three days and doesn't really provide a lot of information about what to do,” said Leslie Heimov, executive director of the Children's Law Center of California, who was informed of the temporary closure the night before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heimov and her staff attorneys provide legal representation to children in the child welfare system in Los Angeles and Sacramento. On Tuesday, Heimov found herself explaining the closure to a confused parent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were all told to come to court, so they're showing up, some of them taking public transportation, some with their babies with them,” she said. “Not surprisingly [it’s] a lot of very distressed folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Edmund D. Edelman Children's Courthouse in Los Angeles County's Monterey Park hears cases that relate to allegations of abuse or neglect of a child. Parents with a scheduled hearing check in at 8:30 a.m. Many show up early to wait throughout the day for their cases to be called. Some are there to regain custody of their children, and others are there to show their progress on a court-mandated plan before reunification can occur. Some parents might also learn at that courthouse that their parental rights have been terminated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the courthouse is closed due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus, along with others across California, including in \u003ca href=\"https://www.saccourt.ca.gov/general/coronavirus.aspx\">Sacramento\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanmateocourt.org/juvenileCovid19.pdf\">San Mateo\u003c/a> and other Bay Area counties. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children get their own attorney in all dependency court proceedings primarily to ensure that the child’s welfare is paramount. Heimov worried that the precautionary court closures might have other harmful impacts to the children that she and her staff attorneys represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we worry about is the child's emotional well-being,” Heimov said. “Are they scared? Is there something they need? Do they maybe have a medical condition that we don't know about and we need to make sure they get the proper medications? Have they been separated from their siblings?” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heimov said she understands the seriousness of the current public health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we take our civic duty to flatten the curve extremely seriously, we also recognize that there are some situations where there are equally as important concerns for the welfare of a child or of the family that need to be addressed timely and can't be put on hold indefinitely,” Heimov said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Superior Court confirmed through an administrative order that the courts will remain closed until April 16 except for time-sensitive and essential functions. For child abuse or neglect cases, this means that only the most urgent will get a hearing, especially if it involves the imminent safety of a child. All other routine court functions will be delayed for 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This worries Janine Townsend, a grandmother from Perris, California, who relies on a court order for guaranteed visitation with her grandson. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm hoping we get a visit on Friday,” Townsend said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her grandson was removed from his parents and placed with a foster family. The foster mother hasn’t been compliant with her visits, Townsend said. She is worried that it may be a long time before she can see him again. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying this can go on for months,” Townsend said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobby Cagle, who heads the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, the nation’s largest child welfare agency, said visits with family members will continue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case that a physical visit cannot occur, department social workers are encouraging families to do virtual visits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing things like telephone calls, FaceTime, Skype,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='left' citation=\"Bobby Cagle, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services\"]'We know that families are worried about their children. The children [also] need to hear from their families so that they can be calmed in the situation as well.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle advised family members to call their social worker if they are told by a foster parent that a visit cannot happen. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they feel like they're not getting what they need from the caseworker, they can always call a supervisor,” Cagle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle acknowledged the extra anxiety of the current shelter-in-place orders might have for families. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that families are worried about their children,” Cagle said. “The children [also] need to hear from their families so that they can be calmed in the situation as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monthly home visits by a social worker to all children in foster care will also continue, Cagle said, and where possible, video conferencing will be used. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle said he's also worried about a dramatic drop in the number of calls received by the department hotline number, which gets between 500 to 1,000 calls per day reporting alleged child abuse or neglect. The decrease occurred since public schools closed on Monday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools are one of the three primary drivers of the volume of calls that come into our hotline,” Cagle said. “What we have seen is a 30% to 50% decrease in the amount of calls ... over the last couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are often the ones that notice when a child might be the victim of abuse, and they call the hotline. Now, children are confined at home, which also worries domestic violence advocates. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often staying home is not the safest plan because the abuser, the person hurting them, knows where they live or they live together,” said Carmen MacDonald, director of legal services at the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the home is the place that you're experiencing domestic violence and now you've been told to stay at home, I'm very concerned that survivors are going to be less safe and the children are impacted who are witnessing domestic violence, and now children are home full time,” McDonald said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Carmen MacDonald, Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice\"]'If the home is the place that you're experiencing domestic violence and now you've been told to stay at home, I'm very concerned that survivors are going to be less safe and the children are impacted who are witnessing domestic violence, and now children are home full time.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to domestic violence, schools also play a critical role in helping women get out of dangerous situations, she said. But with the closures, “the child's not going to school to tell their teacher what's happening at home.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Superior Court announced that all restraining orders due to expire would automatically be extended 21 days, which McDonald applauded. Yet she said she's worried about women who need a hearing and won’t get one. Police stations can issue an order that tells the accused abuser to “stay away” for up to seven days, but this is not the same level of protection a victim can get through the courts, which has other remedies available to help the victim stay safe and protect her children. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already have a population that is isolated that's now being forced into further isolation,” McDonald said. “And often the batterer is the one telling them no one's going to help you and now that’s really true.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect a child is the victim of abuse or neglect, call DCFS child protection hotline in L.A. County at 1-800-540-4000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is a reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College, which is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Courthouses across California have shut down due to the coronavirus. Advocates are worried about how the closures could impact children who've been abused and domestic violence victims.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1584653166,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1370},"headData":{"title":"What Happens When Courthouses That Hear Abuse Cases Shut Down? | KQED","description":"Courthouses across California have shut down due to the coronavirus. Advocates are worried about how the closures could impact children.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11807392 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11807392","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/03/19/what-happens-when-courthouses-where-abuse-cases-are-heard-shut-down/","disqusTitle":"What Happens When Courthouses That Hear Abuse Cases Shut Down?","source":"Coronavirus","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/coronavirus","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/301b7341-36b3-44e4-9b99-ab830151f4ca/audio.mp3","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/deepafern?lang=en\">Deepa Fernandes\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11807392/what-happens-when-courthouses-where-abuse-cases-are-heard-shut-down","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It was a scene of confusion and despair early Tuesday morning in front of one of the nation’s largest children’s courthouses in Los Angeles as parents, some with children and babies in tow, stood helplessly outside the closed building. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The notice on the courthouse door says that the court is closed for three days and doesn't really provide a lot of information about what to do,” said Leslie Heimov, executive director of the Children's Law Center of California, who was informed of the temporary closure the night before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heimov and her staff attorneys provide legal representation to children in the child welfare system in Los Angeles and Sacramento. On Tuesday, Heimov found herself explaining the closure to a confused parent. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were all told to come to court, so they're showing up, some of them taking public transportation, some with their babies with them,” she said. “Not surprisingly [it’s] a lot of very distressed folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Edmund D. Edelman Children's Courthouse in Los Angeles County's Monterey Park hears cases that relate to allegations of abuse or neglect of a child. Parents with a scheduled hearing check in at 8:30 a.m. Many show up early to wait throughout the day for their cases to be called. Some are there to regain custody of their children, and others are there to show their progress on a court-mandated plan before reunification can occur. Some parents might also learn at that courthouse that their parental rights have been terminated. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the courthouse is closed due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus, along with others across California, including in \u003ca href=\"https://www.saccourt.ca.gov/general/coronavirus.aspx\">Sacramento\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.sanmateocourt.org/juvenileCovid19.pdf\">San Mateo\u003c/a> and other Bay Area counties. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Children get their own attorney in all dependency court proceedings primarily to ensure that the child’s welfare is paramount. Heimov worried that the precautionary court closures might have other harmful impacts to the children that she and her staff attorneys represent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we worry about is the child's emotional well-being,” Heimov said. “Are they scared? Is there something they need? Do they maybe have a medical condition that we don't know about and we need to make sure they get the proper medications? Have they been separated from their siblings?” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Coverage ","tag":"coronavirus"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heimov said she understands the seriousness of the current public health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we take our civic duty to flatten the curve extremely seriously, we also recognize that there are some situations where there are equally as important concerns for the welfare of a child or of the family that need to be addressed timely and can't be put on hold indefinitely,” Heimov said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Superior Court confirmed through an administrative order that the courts will remain closed until April 16 except for time-sensitive and essential functions. For child abuse or neglect cases, this means that only the most urgent will get a hearing, especially if it involves the imminent safety of a child. All other routine court functions will be delayed for 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This worries Janine Townsend, a grandmother from Perris, California, who relies on a court order for guaranteed visitation with her grandson. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I'm hoping we get a visit on Friday,” Townsend said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her grandson was removed from his parents and placed with a foster family. The foster mother hasn’t been compliant with her visits, Townsend said. She is worried that it may be a long time before she can see him again. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re saying this can go on for months,” Townsend said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobby Cagle, who heads the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, the nation’s largest child welfare agency, said visits with family members will continue. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case that a physical visit cannot occur, department social workers are encouraging families to do virtual visits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing things like telephone calls, FaceTime, Skype,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We know that families are worried about their children. The children [also] need to hear from their families so that they can be calmed in the situation as well.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"left","citation":"Bobby Cagle, Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle advised family members to call their social worker if they are told by a foster parent that a visit cannot happen. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they feel like they're not getting what they need from the caseworker, they can always call a supervisor,” Cagle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle acknowledged the extra anxiety of the current shelter-in-place orders might have for families. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that families are worried about their children,” Cagle said. “The children [also] need to hear from their families so that they can be calmed in the situation as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monthly home visits by a social worker to all children in foster care will also continue, Cagle said, and where possible, video conferencing will be used. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle said he's also worried about a dramatic drop in the number of calls received by the department hotline number, which gets between 500 to 1,000 calls per day reporting alleged child abuse or neglect. The decrease occurred since public schools closed on Monday. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Schools are one of the three primary drivers of the volume of calls that come into our hotline,” Cagle said. “What we have seen is a 30% to 50% decrease in the amount of calls ... over the last couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are often the ones that notice when a child might be the victim of abuse, and they call the hotline. Now, children are confined at home, which also worries domestic violence advocates. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Often staying home is not the safest plan because the abuser, the person hurting them, knows where they live or they live together,” said Carmen MacDonald, director of legal services at the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the home is the place that you're experiencing domestic violence and now you've been told to stay at home, I'm very concerned that survivors are going to be less safe and the children are impacted who are witnessing domestic violence, and now children are home full time,” McDonald said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'If the home is the place that you're experiencing domestic violence and now you've been told to stay at home, I'm very concerned that survivors are going to be less safe and the children are impacted who are witnessing domestic violence, and now children are home full time.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Carmen MacDonald, Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to domestic violence, schools also play a critical role in helping women get out of dangerous situations, she said. But with the closures, “the child's not going to school to tell their teacher what's happening at home.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Superior Court announced that all restraining orders due to expire would automatically be extended 21 days, which McDonald applauded. Yet she said she's worried about women who need a hearing and won’t get one. Police stations can issue an order that tells the accused abuser to “stay away” for up to seven days, but this is not the same level of protection a victim can get through the courts, which has other remedies available to help the victim stay safe and protect her children. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We already have a population that is isolated that's now being forced into further isolation,” McDonald said. “And often the batterer is the one telling them no one's going to help you and now that’s really true.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you suspect a child is the victim of abuse or neglect, call DCFS child protection hotline in L.A. County at 1-800-540-4000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is a reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College, which is funded in part by First 5 LA.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11807392/what-happens-when-courthouses-where-abuse-cases-are-heard-shut-down","authors":["byline_news_11807392"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_457","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_18538","news_5559","news_2043","news_27350","news_17825","news_27504","news_17762"],"featImg":"news_11807453","label":"source_news_11807392"},"news_11778345":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11778345","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11778345","score":null,"sort":[1571745901000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"despite-denials-sf-officials-knew-of-abuse-at-reform-school-where-city-sent-juveniles","title":"Despite Denials, SF Officials Knew of Abuse at Reform School Where City Sent Juveniles","publishDate":1571745901,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A San Francisco teenager claimed in late 2015 that counselors at a now shuttered Pennsylvania reform school assaulted kids at the facility, allegations that were substantiated by California regulators and that contradict statements made by San Francisco's top juvenile justice official.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Unidentified San Francisco Teen\"]'Some body have to do something about this tell them I don't feel safe here. And that staff is threat me. I love you mom.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The staff in here be fighting the kids up in here. Some of them be jumping us,\" the unidentified juvenile wrote in the letter postmarked Sept. 11, 2015, to his mother about his experience at the Glen Mills Schools in suburban Philadelphia. The letter is transcribed in California investigative reports obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today the P.M. Senior Counselor was punching me in my chest and neck. He told me he was going to throw me down a flight of stairs and that he could kill me and get away with it,\" the teen wrote. \"He constantly threats us that he go beat us up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a Philadelphia Inquirer \u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/crime/a/glen-mills-schools-pa-abuse-juvenile-investigation-20190220.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation\u003c/a> revealed allegations of extreme physical abuse by some staff at Glen Mills, which was considered the nation's oldest \"reform school\" for male youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newspaper's reporting, which also pointed to efforts by the schools' officials to cover up the allegations, led Pennsylvania regulators to close the school's campus, revoke its licenses and pull out juveniles housed there. Glen Mills is appealing the closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742455/how-california-teens-wound-up-at-pennsylvania-school-accused-of-battering-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For years California counties sent scores of teenage boys in trouble with the law to Glen Mills\u003c/a>, one of a number of facilities outside California used for juvenile placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen Nance, San Francisco's top juvenile probation official, told KQED in April that he had never heard of problems from any of the some 30 boys the city had sent to Glen Mills over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nance, who recently lost a political battle to stop the closure — in late 2021 — of the juvenile hall he runs, said then that his department was \"very fond\" of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11742455 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser.jpg\"]\"In fact, among our juvenile justice practitioners, Glen Mills was one of the more popular placement sites for some our most difficult-to-place youth,\" Nance said then. \"We were fortunate to not have had any bad experiences with Glen Mills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That contradicts documents obtained from the California Department of Social Services through a California Public Records Act request that show San Francisco officials were aware of the boy's claim of widespread abuse at Glen Mills and kept in the loop on the department's investigation into them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions last week about the state investigation omitted from his previous answers, Nance said he has requested that his staff research the matter and he would respond when he had more information. He failed to provide an explanation in time for a Monday deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations came to the attention of state regulators after the boy's mother called Dorothy Ellis, a deputy probation officer in San Francisco's Juvenile Probation Department, the records show. Ellis then referred the information to the state Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hello Carol and Ron I am sending this email to report an allegation of abuse at Glen Mills,\" Ellis wrote in a Sept. 16, 2015, email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy's letter prompted an investigations by California social services officials, who are required to certify out-of-state facilities where juveniles are placed and investigate allegations of abuse at those places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781578\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-800x322.jpg\" alt=\"An excerpt from investigatory records provided by the California Department of Social Services quoting a September 2015 letter a San Francisco boy housed at the Glen Mills Schools in Pennsylvania wrote alleging abuse at the hands of staff.\" width=\"800\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-800x322.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-160x64.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-1020x410.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2.jpg 1157w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from investigatory records provided by the California Department of Social Services quoting a September 2015 letter a San Francisco boy housed at the Glen Mills Schools in Pennsylvania wrote alleging abuse at the hands of staff. \u003ccite>(Via California Department of Social Services)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The teen's letter recounts abuse toward him and others at the reform school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other staff pair up and try to fight the kids. Nobody does a thing about it and the kids to scared to say anything about it. He beat up three other kids giving one of them a black eye,\" the San Francisco boy wrote to his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy asked her to call his probation officer or the officer's supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some body have to do something about this tell them I don't feel safe here. And that staff is threat me. I love you mom,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Department of Social Services analyst investigated the accusations, which included interviewing the boy and other kids at Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials sent their findings to the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services on Oct. 12, 2015, naming the staff member accused of abuse, and substantiating the teen's claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is our stance that staff Eric Adams is indeed conducting acts of physical pain including punching resulting in client injury and fear,\" the analyst, Ronald Leslie, wrote. \"As a result, we do not feel California youth are safe in his presence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glen Mills placed Adams on administrative leave the next day. A week later he was fired, representing the only case in which an investigation from California regulators led to the termination of an employee at the Pennsylvania reform school, according to Adam Weintraub, a spokesman for the state Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Jubelirer, a spokesman for Glen Mills, would not provide more details about the case other than to confirm that Adams was fired in a move prompted by California's review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Adams was terminated surrounding allegations of abuse that were substantiated by the state of California,\" Jubelirer said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his LinkedIn page, Adams worked at Glen Mills for close to three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco stopped sending juveniles to Glen Mills in 2016, San Francisco juvenile probation chief Nance said last spring. He said then that the decision to halt the relationship with the reform school had nothing to do with concerns about abuse there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks after the Inquirer published its investigation into Glen Mills, Pennsylvania regulators closed the campus and revoked its licenses, a move that Glen Mills has appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can find more on the Inquirer's investigation into Glen Mills and its aftermath by visiting the \u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/author/gartner_lisa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">author page\u003c/a> of the reporter who broke the story, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lisagartner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Gartner\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Top San Francisco juvenile probation official earlier said he heard no claims of abuse at Glen Mills, located in suburban Philadelphia.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1571709041,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1091},"headData":{"title":"Despite Denials, SF Officials Knew of Abuse at Reform School Where City Sent Juveniles | KQED","description":"Top San Francisco juvenile probation official earlier said he heard no claims of abuse at Glen Mills, located in suburban Philadelphia.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11778345 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11778345","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/10/22/despite-denials-sf-officials-knew-of-abuse-at-reform-school-where-city-sent-juveniles/","disqusTitle":"Despite Denials, SF Officials Knew of Abuse at Reform School Where City Sent Juveniles","path":"/news/11778345/despite-denials-sf-officials-knew-of-abuse-at-reform-school-where-city-sent-juveniles","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A San Francisco teenager claimed in late 2015 that counselors at a now shuttered Pennsylvania reform school assaulted kids at the facility, allegations that were substantiated by California regulators and that contradict statements made by San Francisco's top juvenile justice official.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Some body have to do something about this tell them I don't feel safe here. And that staff is threat me. I love you mom.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Unidentified San Francisco Teen","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The staff in here be fighting the kids up in here. Some of them be jumping us,\" the unidentified juvenile wrote in the letter postmarked Sept. 11, 2015, to his mother about his experience at the Glen Mills Schools in suburban Philadelphia. The letter is transcribed in California investigative reports obtained by KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Today the P.M. Senior Counselor was punching me in my chest and neck. He told me he was going to throw me down a flight of stairs and that he could kill me and get away with it,\" the teen wrote. \"He constantly threats us that he go beat us up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a Philadelphia Inquirer \u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/crime/a/glen-mills-schools-pa-abuse-juvenile-investigation-20190220.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">investigation\u003c/a> revealed allegations of extreme physical abuse by some staff at Glen Mills, which was considered the nation's oldest \"reform school\" for male youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newspaper's reporting, which also pointed to efforts by the schools' officials to cover up the allegations, led Pennsylvania regulators to close the school's campus, revoke its licenses and pull out juveniles housed there. Glen Mills is appealing the closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742455/how-california-teens-wound-up-at-pennsylvania-school-accused-of-battering-students\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For years California counties sent scores of teenage boys in trouble with the law to Glen Mills\u003c/a>, one of a number of facilities outside California used for juvenile placement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen Nance, San Francisco's top juvenile probation official, told KQED in April that he had never heard of problems from any of the some 30 boys the city had sent to Glen Mills over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nance, who recently lost a political battle to stop the closure — in late 2021 — of the juvenile hall he runs, said then that his department was \"very fond\" of the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11742455","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"In fact, among our juvenile justice practitioners, Glen Mills was one of the more popular placement sites for some our most difficult-to-place youth,\" Nance said then. \"We were fortunate to not have had any bad experiences with Glen Mills.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That contradicts documents obtained from the California Department of Social Services through a California Public Records Act request that show San Francisco officials were aware of the boy's claim of widespread abuse at Glen Mills and kept in the loop on the department's investigation into them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions last week about the state investigation omitted from his previous answers, Nance said he has requested that his staff research the matter and he would respond when he had more information. He failed to provide an explanation in time for a Monday deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations came to the attention of state regulators after the boy's mother called Dorothy Ellis, a deputy probation officer in San Francisco's Juvenile Probation Department, the records show. Ellis then referred the information to the state Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Hello Carol and Ron I am sending this email to report an allegation of abuse at Glen Mills,\" Ellis wrote in a Sept. 16, 2015, email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy's letter prompted an investigations by California social services officials, who are required to certify out-of-state facilities where juveniles are placed and investigate allegations of abuse at those places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781578\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11781578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-800x322.jpg\" alt=\"An excerpt from investigatory records provided by the California Department of Social Services quoting a September 2015 letter a San Francisco boy housed at the Glen Mills Schools in Pennsylvania wrote alleging abuse at the hands of staff.\" width=\"800\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-800x322.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-160x64.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2-1020x410.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/GM-2.jpg 1157w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An excerpt from investigatory records provided by the California Department of Social Services quoting a September 2015 letter a San Francisco boy housed at the Glen Mills Schools in Pennsylvania wrote alleging abuse at the hands of staff. \u003ccite>(Via California Department of Social Services)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The teen's letter recounts abuse toward him and others at the reform school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The other staff pair up and try to fight the kids. Nobody does a thing about it and the kids to scared to say anything about it. He beat up three other kids giving one of them a black eye,\" the San Francisco boy wrote to his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy asked her to call his probation officer or the officer's supervisor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some body have to do something about this tell them I don't feel safe here. And that staff is threat me. I love you mom,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A California Department of Social Services analyst investigated the accusations, which included interviewing the boy and other kids at Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California officials sent their findings to the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services on Oct. 12, 2015, naming the staff member accused of abuse, and substantiating the teen's claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is our stance that staff Eric Adams is indeed conducting acts of physical pain including punching resulting in client injury and fear,\" the analyst, Ronald Leslie, wrote. \"As a result, we do not feel California youth are safe in his presence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glen Mills placed Adams on administrative leave the next day. A week later he was fired, representing the only case in which an investigation from California regulators led to the termination of an employee at the Pennsylvania reform school, according to Adam Weintraub, a spokesman for the state Department of Social Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Jubelirer, a spokesman for Glen Mills, would not provide more details about the case other than to confirm that Adams was fired in a move prompted by California's review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mr. Adams was terminated surrounding allegations of abuse that were substantiated by the state of California,\" Jubelirer said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to his LinkedIn page, Adams worked at Glen Mills for close to three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adams declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco stopped sending juveniles to Glen Mills in 2016, San Francisco juvenile probation chief Nance said last spring. He said then that the decision to halt the relationship with the reform school had nothing to do with concerns about abuse there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks after the Inquirer published its investigation into Glen Mills, Pennsylvania regulators closed the campus and revoked its licenses, a move that Glen Mills has appealed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can find more on the Inquirer's investigation into Glen Mills and its aftermath by visiting the \u003ca href=\"https://www.inquirer.com/author/gartner_lisa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">author page\u003c/a> of the reporter who broke the story, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/lisagartner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Gartner\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11778345/despite-denials-sf-officials-knew-of-abuse-at-reform-school-where-city-sent-juveniles","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_18540","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_5559","news_2043","news_19542","news_25587","news_1107","news_22995","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11743829","label":"news"},"news_11752867":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11752867","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11752867","score":null,"sort":[1559860493000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-top-prosecutor-seeks-potential-victims-in-luz-del-mundo-sexual-abuse-case","title":"California's Top Prosecutor Seeks Potential Victims in Luz del Mundo Sexual Abuse Case","publishDate":1559860493,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Thursday that he believes there are more victims of child sex abuse than those listed in charges against the leader of Mexico-based megachurch La Luz del Mundo and several followers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be hard to believe that, based on the information that we're collecting, that it's only these four individuals,\" Becerra said at a press conference, urging any victims to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Luz del Mundo leader Naasón Joaquín García and two co-defendants were arrested in California this week, while a fourth remains at large. They face a 26-count felony complaint that alleges crimes including child rape, statutory rape, molestation, human trafficking, child pornography and extortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A church spokesman has denounced the charges as slander and defamation and said Joaquín García remains the spiritual leader of La Luz del Mundo, which claims more than 5 million members worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in custody made their first court appearance in Los Angeles on Wednesday but did not enter pleas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bail for Joaquín García was doubled to $50 million after prosecutors presented evidence that he could flee the United States, Becerra said. The attorney general explained that the extraordinary bail amount — believed to be the largest ever set in Los Angeles County — was requested because of a \"credible fear\" that Joaquín García could raise bond money from his many followers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a great apprehension that Mr. García will raise the money to get a bond to bail himself out,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra repeatedly referred to Joaquín García as \"sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No law of California, no law of humankind and certainly no law of God would permit to occur what Naasón Joaquín García is alleged to have committed in this case against young girls and others,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four victims cited in the complaint were members of the church in Los Angeles County, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joaquín García — who was a minister in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California before becoming the church's leader — coerced the victims into performing sex acts by telling them that refusing would be going against God, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't do that to children, you don't do that to adults. You don't hide behind some religious veil,\" Becerra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general said the investigation resulted from a tip that came in through a website seeking victims of clergy sex abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendants' arraignment is set for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mexican megachurch leader Naasón Joaquín García and two co-defendants were arrested in L.A. this week on 26 counts alleging crimes including child rape, human trafficking and child pornography.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1559930543,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":445},"headData":{"title":"California's Top Prosecutor Seeks Potential Victims in Luz del Mundo Sexual Abuse Case | KQED","description":"Mexican megachurch leader Naasón Joaquín García and two co-defendants were arrested in L.A. this week on 26 counts alleging crimes including child rape, human trafficking and child pornography.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11752867 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11752867","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/06/06/californias-top-prosecutor-seeks-potential-victims-in-luz-del-mundo-sexual-abuse-case/","disqusTitle":"California's Top Prosecutor Seeks Potential Victims in Luz del Mundo Sexual Abuse Case","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2019/06/RojasLaLuzDelMundo.mp3","nprByline":"Stefanie Dazio and John Antczak \u003cbr> Associated Press","audioTrackLength":12,"path":"/news/11752867/californias-top-prosecutor-seeks-potential-victims-in-luz-del-mundo-sexual-abuse-case","audioDuration":90000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said Thursday that he believes there are more victims of child sex abuse than those listed in charges against the leader of Mexico-based megachurch La Luz del Mundo and several followers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It would be hard to believe that, based on the information that we're collecting, that it's only these four individuals,\" Becerra said at a press conference, urging any victims to come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Luz del Mundo leader Naasón Joaquín García and two co-defendants were arrested in California this week, while a fourth remains at large. They face a 26-count felony complaint that alleges crimes including child rape, statutory rape, molestation, human trafficking, child pornography and extortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A church spokesman has denounced the charges as slander and defamation and said Joaquín García remains the spiritual leader of La Luz del Mundo, which claims more than 5 million members worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in custody made their first court appearance in Los Angeles on Wednesday but did not enter pleas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bail for Joaquín García was doubled to $50 million after prosecutors presented evidence that he could flee the United States, Becerra said. The attorney general explained that the extraordinary bail amount — believed to be the largest ever set in Los Angeles County — was requested because of a \"credible fear\" that Joaquín García could raise bond money from his many followers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have a great apprehension that Mr. García will raise the money to get a bond to bail himself out,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra repeatedly referred to Joaquín García as \"sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No law of California, no law of humankind and certainly no law of God would permit to occur what Naasón Joaquín García is alleged to have committed in this case against young girls and others,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The four victims cited in the complaint were members of the church in Los Angeles County, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joaquín García — who was a minister in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California before becoming the church's leader — coerced the victims into performing sex acts by telling them that refusing would be going against God, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You don't do that to children, you don't do that to adults. You don't hide behind some religious veil,\" Becerra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attorney general said the investigation resulted from a tip that came in through a website seeking victims of clergy sex abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defendants' arraignment is set for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11752867/californias-top-prosecutor-seeks-potential-victims-in-luz-del-mundo-sexual-abuse-case","authors":["byline_news_11752867"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_5559","news_25349","news_4","news_856","news_20378"],"featImg":"news_11752878","label":"news_72"},"news_11742455":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11742455","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11742455","score":null,"sort":[1556642147000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"how-california-teens-wound-up-at-pennsylvania-school-accused-of-battering-students","title":"How California Teens Wound Up at Pennsylvania School Accused of Battering Students","publishDate":1556642147,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or years, counties throughout the Bay Area and California have been sending teenage boys in trouble with the law to a Philadelphia-area institution that is now the target of allegations of widespread physical abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those placements continued in some cases despite the findings of an unannounced June 2016 inspection by California officials that staff at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.glenmillsschool.org/about/history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glen Mills Schools\u003c/a> routinely punished boys for behavior such as biting their lips, flinching or shifting their eyes while talking to counselors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The punishment sometimes took the form of physically restraining students or forcing them to sit for long periods in violation of regulations that limit such techniques to situations where the teens are \"assaultive\" or endangering themselves or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those findings were summarized \u003ca href=\"https://secure.dss.ca.gov/ccld/TransparencyAPI/api/FacilityReports?facNum=602300033&inx=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a brief report\u003c/a> on the inspection visit to Glen Mills, considered the nation's oldest \"reform school\" for male youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under no circumstances shall physical restraints be used as disciplinary action,\" MaryJo Tobola, a California Department of Social Services official, wrote in the June 17, 2016, summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have repeatedly heard from numerous youth that Glen Mills staff would use the term 'physical restraint' to include punching, choking, body slamming, head butting. ...'\u003ccite>Nadia Mozaffar, Juvenile Law Center\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>By the department's definition, permissible restraints for an assaultive juvenile or one posing a danger could range from staff members positioning themselves to limit a teen's movement to use of \"mechanical devices\" to placing a juvenile in a seclusion room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \"physical restraints\" at Glen Mills reportedly went far beyond such methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.philly.com/crime/a/glen-mills-schools-pa-abuse-juvenile-investigation-20190220.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Inquirer investigation\u003c/a> reported allegations of beatings and other extreme physical abuse by some Glen Mills staff members and efforts by the school's officials to cover them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have repeatedly heard from numerous youth that Glen Mills staff would use the term 'physical restraint' to include punching, choking, body slamming, head butting and painfully limiting the movement of youth from 'violations,' including not 'shutting up' and not tying shoes,\" said Nadia Mozaffar, a staff attorney at the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, among several groups that have filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.elc-pa.org/2019/04/11/class-action-suit-against-glen-mills-schools-and-pa-officials-cites-abuse-of-children-deprivation-of-education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuits\u003c/a> against the institution. \"At Glen Mills, 'physical restraint' was a euphemism for physical assault.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania regulators have revoked the school's permits, and juveniles housed at the institution have been pulled out and sent elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the horrific point of all of this — that everyone anecdotally heard these stories. It was so prevalent,\" said Maura McInerney, legal director of the Philadelphia-based Education Law Center, which also represents Glen Mills plaintiffs. \"There should have been alarm bells going off for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser-800x605.jpg\" alt=\"Marsha Levick, Juvenile Law Center chief legal officer, speaks at a press conference along with Maura McInerney, Education Law Center legal director (center) on April 11.\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser-800x605.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser-1020x771.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marsha Levick, Juvenile Law Center chief legal officer, speaks at a press conference along with Maura McInerney, Education Law Center legal director (center) on April 11. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Juvenile Law Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Used Glen Mills For Decades\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen counties in California, including several in the Bay Area, have sent scores of boys to the school, according to interviews with local probation officials and a review of publicly available California Department of Social Services records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state report that identified \"deficiencies\" at Glen Mills in 2016 said that supervisors there told inspectors they would make it clear to their staff that the abusive behavior needed to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If not corrected, these violations will have direct and immediate risk to the health, safety or personal rights of youth in care,\" Tobola of the CDSS wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But weeks after the inspection, the agency extended its certification of Glen Mills for another year. The Department of Social Services went on to extend the certification over the next several years as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Weston, a CDSS spokesman, said Glen Mills eventually completed a plan of correction by training its staff on the appropriate use of restraints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Macallair, executive director of the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, says California regulators may have been reluctant to hold Glen Mills accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, he said, that's because of the limited number of placement options the state has. But it's also because abuses are not uncommon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's some reluctance to push too hard, to open too many doors or look under too many rugs,\" Macallair said. \"If we were to pull the curtain back all the way, we'd have to shut the entire system down, because these are the kinds of things that happen in these places.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.philly.com/crime/a/glen-mills-schools-pa-abuse-juvenile-investigation-20190220.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Inquirer's story\u003c/a> pulled the curtain back on numerous incidents in which teens sent to Glen Mills were battered and brutalized by the school's staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There's some reluctance to push too hard, to open too many doors or look under too many rugs. If we were to pull the curtain back all the way, we'd have to shut the entire system down. ...'\u003ccite>Daniel Macallair, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The episodes included cases in which staff injured two boys at the school so severely they needed staples to close scalp wounds. In another case, the Inquirer said, a teen required stitches in his back after a staff member pushed him through a plate glass window. Another reported episode involved a counselor stepping on a boy's face, breaking his jaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Inquirer story led to calls for the school to close and raised questions over whether Pennsylvania regulators had ignored abuse at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 16 juveniles from California were among the hundreds pulled out of the school after it lost its Pennsylvania licenses, according to Ali Fogarty, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday, Weston told KQED that state social services officials have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of that probe could lead California regulators to revoke the school's license to take in kids from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz Abuse Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the boys profiled in the Philadelphia Inquirer series was Nathan Thomas, who was 16 when he was sent to Glen Mills from Santa Cruz in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas told the paper that counselors liked to bash students' heads into the door of a refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one day a counselor overhead him talking with another boy about abuse at the facility. The staff member took him to the refrigerator, which was dented by the heads of his fellow students. Thomas said the staff member slammed his head into the door, choked him and spit in his face. A second counselor slapped him, Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Hoppin, a Santa Cruz County spokesman, said he could not comment on specific abuse allegations. But he added that probation staff occasionally hear complaints of abuse during state-mandated monthly visits to facilities outside California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those cases, Santa Cruz officials refer the complaints to child protective agencies in the jurisdictions where the facilities are located, Hoppin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have given a client a code word to use to relay any concerns he may have had about his situation,\" Hoppin said. \"We hate to hear about this kind of stuff, and we act quickly and thoroughly when we do hear complaints like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has sent eight juvenile offenders to Glen Mills in the last decade, Hoppin said. He added that the county has a limited number of beds in its own jurisdiction and few options statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We use out-of-state group homes as a last resort. Santa Cruz County would prefer to keep kids locally,\" Hoppin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Counties \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials have sent at least 30 boys to Glen Mills over the last decade, according to the city's top juvenile probation official, who said he hasn't heard of problems from any of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We actually were very fond of Glen Mills,\" said Allen Nance, San Francisco's chief probation officer. \"In fact, among our juvenile justice practitioners, Glen Mills was one of the more popular placement sites for some of our most difficult-to-place youth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city placed juveniles in the Pennsylvania school because in-state facilities failed to meet their needs, Nance said. Some of the kids in the system who have dealt with extreme trauma or have been diagnosed with \"conduct disorder\" were sent to Glen Mills, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When San Francisco probation staff made their required monthly visits to Glen Mills, Nance said, there were never any complaints of abuse or neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Santa Cruz County, San Francisco stopped using Glen Mills in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The incidents of concern came up long after we had discontinued our utilization of Glen Mills,\" Nance said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nance said his department wanted to keep kids closer to home, reduce the number of out-of-state facilities it uses and choose others that offer more clinical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County sent around 45 boys to Glen Mills between 2002 and 2018, according to Michael Simms, deputy chief of the county probation department's juvenile service division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simms did not answer specific questions about how many complaints the county got from youth sent to Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We always follow up immediately on any credible accusations, which is consistent with our current response,\" Simms said in an emailed statement. \"We expect our youth to be treated with exemplary care and will not allow them to remain in any environment that does not provide such care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://ccld.ca.gov/res/pdf/GM14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014\u003c/a> Alameda County had eight boys at Glen Mills and in \u003ca href=\"http://ccld.ca.gov/res/pdf/GM15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015\u003c/a> the county had 13 teens at the facility, according to state reports. Officials there did not reply to a series of emailed questions about the boys' placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Teens From Southern California, Central Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino, Imperial, Kern, Merced, Sacramento, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties have all sent children to Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County officials did not respond to requests for comment, but a county official disclosed two investigations into abuse complaints at Glen Mills during a Commission for Institutional Inspections \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/117121.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meeting\u003c/a> in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the same year that, according to the Inquirer, a 17-year-old Los Angeles boy tried to run away from the 800-acre facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newspaper reported that staff found the boy in the woods and took him to a school stairwell, where four counselors took turns sitting on his chest. The staff choked and punched him, the Inquirer said. He told the paper he could barely leave his bed for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have sent male youth to this facility for well over a decade,\" said TR Merickel, Kern County's chief probation officer, who estimated that around 40 boys from the county have stayed at Glen Mills during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have never received any reports or allegations of staff abuse from the youth placed there,\" Merickel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County has averaged between five and seven youths per year at Glen Mills since 1999, according to Steve Jackson, a county chief probation officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Joaquin County takes all allegations of abuse very seriously,\" Jackson said. \"At the time of this news article our county had one youth in the program who was getting ready to graduate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said his agency was not aware of any complaints from young people it sent to Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Kettering, Merced County's chief probation officer, said the county sent several juveniles to Glen Mills and heard only positive feedback about the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the other county probation offices did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Out-of-State Placement Works\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1998 California law requires state regulators to certify out-of-state facilities where juveniles are placed and directs the Department of Social Services to investigate allegations of abuse at those locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year the department first certified Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there are more than two dozen certified group homes in 10 states where county social services and probation departments can place foster children and juvenile wards \"whose needs cannot be met\" in California facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every time a kid from California is placed out of state by the juvenile court, the court has to make a finding on the record that there is no place in California that can meet their kids' needs,\" said Jim Salio, chief probation officer in San Luis Obispo County and the former president of the Chief Probation Officers of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some youth advocates say California probation officials use facilities like Glen Mills to send tough-to-treat teens as far away as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They want to get them out of town,\" said Macallair with the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. \"Sending them to the East Coast is one way. It takes the problem off your hands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties pay most out-of-California facilities between $6,000 and $9,000 a month per placement, according to state regulators and county officials. That money is made up of federal, state and county funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You would think that in California we would have programs that could meet the needs of children in California and we wouldn't have to send them out of state. But that's not true,\" said Salio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of mind-blowing. How come California can't meet the needs of their own children? What are we missing in our system?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salio said county probation officials and the state should invest in keeping kids closer to their own communities and move away from the group-home model to short-term residential treatment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juvenile Advocates \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates who are pressing for juvenile justice reform agree. They say local probation officials should not be sending juveniles all the way across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the juvenile justice context, it is much better to serve students within their communities, within smaller local facilities,\" said Mozaffar, of the Juvenile Law Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McInerney, of the Education Law Center, said long-distance transfers of young people go against efforts to make juvenile justice rehabilitative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we should be doing is ensuring that there are options within the community, smaller settings where there can be better oversight,\" McInerney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozaffar and McInerney say Californians who stayed at Glen Mills have not reported abuses to them yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We heard of extreme fear from everyone that if they told someone, that things would be worse for them,\" Mozaffar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Glen Mills did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school disputes the allegations of wrongdoing and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.philly.com/news/glen-mills-schools-appeal-emergency-removal-order-pennsylvania-abuse-students-20190404.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appealed\u003c/a> the decision by Pennsylvania regulators to revoke its permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Clarification: This story originally reported that several dozen juveniles from California were pulled from Glen Mills in March. That's because a California Department of Social Service spokesman said there were 36 juveniles at the school in 2018. But after the story published, a representative of the Pennsylvania Department of Department of Human Services said there were 14 juveniles from California at Glen Mills before the school was ordered to remove them.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can find more on the Philadelphia Inquirer's investigation into Glen Mills and its aftermath by visiting the \u003ca href=\"https://www.philly.com/author/gartner_lisa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">author page\u003c/a> of the reporter who broke the story, Lisa Gartner. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California regulators documented abusive practices at the Glen Mills Schools, outside Philadelphia, but never revoked the institution's license.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556862427,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":83,"wordCount":2527},"headData":{"title":"How California Teens Wound Up at Pennsylvania School Accused of Battering Students | KQED","description":"California regulators documented abusive practices at the Glen Mills Schools, outside Philadelphia, but never revoked the institution's license.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11742455 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11742455","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/04/30/how-california-teens-wound-up-at-pennsylvania-school-accused-of-battering-students/","disqusTitle":"How California Teens Wound Up at Pennsylvania School Accused of Battering Students","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2019/04/GoldbergGlenMills.mp3","audioTrackLength":141,"path":"/news/11742455/how-california-teens-wound-up-at-pennsylvania-school-accused-of-battering-students","audioDuration":141000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">F\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>or years, counties throughout the Bay Area and California have been sending teenage boys in trouble with the law to a Philadelphia-area institution that is now the target of allegations of widespread physical abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those placements continued in some cases despite the findings of an unannounced June 2016 inspection by California officials that staff at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.glenmillsschool.org/about/history/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glen Mills Schools\u003c/a> routinely punished boys for behavior such as biting their lips, flinching or shifting their eyes while talking to counselors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The punishment sometimes took the form of physically restraining students or forcing them to sit for long periods in violation of regulations that limit such techniques to situations where the teens are \"assaultive\" or endangering themselves or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those findings were summarized \u003ca href=\"https://secure.dss.ca.gov/ccld/TransparencyAPI/api/FacilityReports?facNum=602300033&inx=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a brief report\u003c/a> on the inspection visit to Glen Mills, considered the nation's oldest \"reform school\" for male youth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Under no circumstances shall physical restraints be used as disciplinary action,\" MaryJo Tobola, a California Department of Social Services official, wrote in the June 17, 2016, summary.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We have repeatedly heard from numerous youth that Glen Mills staff would use the term 'physical restraint' to include punching, choking, body slamming, head butting. ...'\u003ccite>Nadia Mozaffar, Juvenile Law Center\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>By the department's definition, permissible restraints for an assaultive juvenile or one posing a danger could range from staff members positioning themselves to limit a teen's movement to use of \"mechanical devices\" to placing a juvenile in a seclusion room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \"physical restraints\" at Glen Mills reportedly went far beyond such methods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.philly.com/crime/a/glen-mills-schools-pa-abuse-juvenile-investigation-20190220.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Inquirer investigation\u003c/a> reported allegations of beatings and other extreme physical abuse by some Glen Mills staff members and efforts by the school's officials to cover them up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have repeatedly heard from numerous youth that Glen Mills staff would use the term 'physical restraint' to include punching, choking, body slamming, head butting and painfully limiting the movement of youth from 'violations,' including not 'shutting up' and not tying shoes,\" said Nadia Mozaffar, a staff attorney at the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, among several groups that have filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.elc-pa.org/2019/04/11/class-action-suit-against-glen-mills-schools-and-pa-officials-cites-abuse-of-children-deprivation-of-education/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuits\u003c/a> against the institution. \"At Glen Mills, 'physical restraint' was a euphemism for physical assault.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pennsylvania regulators have revoked the school's permits, and juveniles housed at the institution have been pulled out and sent elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's the horrific point of all of this — that everyone anecdotally heard these stories. It was so prevalent,\" said Maura McInerney, legal director of the Philadelphia-based Education Law Center, which also represents Glen Mills plaintiffs. \"There should have been alarm bells going off for everyone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11743855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11743855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser-800x605.jpg\" alt=\"Marsha Levick, Juvenile Law Center chief legal officer, speaks at a press conference along with Maura McInerney, Education Law Center legal director (center) on April 11.\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser-800x605.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser-160x121.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser-1020x771.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/Glenn-Mills-Presser.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marsha Levick, Juvenile Law Center chief legal officer, speaks at a press conference along with Maura McInerney, Education Law Center legal director (center) on April 11. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Juvenile Law Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California Used Glen Mills For Decades\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a dozen counties in California, including several in the Bay Area, have sent scores of boys to the school, according to interviews with local probation officials and a review of publicly available California Department of Social Services records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state report that identified \"deficiencies\" at Glen Mills in 2016 said that supervisors there told inspectors they would make it clear to their staff that the abusive behavior needed to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If not corrected, these violations will have direct and immediate risk to the health, safety or personal rights of youth in care,\" Tobola of the CDSS wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But weeks after the inspection, the agency extended its certification of Glen Mills for another year. The Department of Social Services went on to extend the certification over the next several years as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Weston, a CDSS spokesman, said Glen Mills eventually completed a plan of correction by training its staff on the appropriate use of restraints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Macallair, executive director of the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, says California regulators may have been reluctant to hold Glen Mills accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In part, he said, that's because of the limited number of placement options the state has. But it's also because abuses are not uncommon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's some reluctance to push too hard, to open too many doors or look under too many rugs,\" Macallair said. \"If we were to pull the curtain back all the way, we'd have to shut the entire system down, because these are the kinds of things that happen in these places.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.philly.com/crime/a/glen-mills-schools-pa-abuse-juvenile-investigation-20190220.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Inquirer's story\u003c/a> pulled the curtain back on numerous incidents in which teens sent to Glen Mills were battered and brutalized by the school's staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'There's some reluctance to push too hard, to open too many doors or look under too many rugs. If we were to pull the curtain back all the way, we'd have to shut the entire system down. ...'\u003ccite>Daniel Macallair, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The episodes included cases in which staff injured two boys at the school so severely they needed staples to close scalp wounds. In another case, the Inquirer said, a teen required stitches in his back after a staff member pushed him through a plate glass window. Another reported episode involved a counselor stepping on a boy's face, breaking his jaw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Inquirer story led to calls for the school to close and raised questions over whether Pennsylvania regulators had ignored abuse at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March 16 juveniles from California were among the hundreds pulled out of the school after it lost its Pennsylvania licenses, according to Ali Fogarty, a spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last Friday, Weston told KQED that state social services officials have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of that probe could lead California regulators to revoke the school's license to take in kids from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz Abuse Case\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the boys profiled in the Philadelphia Inquirer series was Nathan Thomas, who was 16 when he was sent to Glen Mills from Santa Cruz in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas told the paper that counselors liked to bash students' heads into the door of a refrigerator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one day a counselor overhead him talking with another boy about abuse at the facility. The staff member took him to the refrigerator, which was dented by the heads of his fellow students. Thomas said the staff member slammed his head into the door, choked him and spit in his face. A second counselor slapped him, Thomas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Hoppin, a Santa Cruz County spokesman, said he could not comment on specific abuse allegations. But he added that probation staff occasionally hear complaints of abuse during state-mandated monthly visits to facilities outside California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In those cases, Santa Cruz officials refer the complaints to child protective agencies in the jurisdictions where the facilities are located, Hoppin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have given a client a code word to use to relay any concerns he may have had about his situation,\" Hoppin said. \"We hate to hear about this kind of stuff, and we act quickly and thoroughly when we do hear complaints like that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county has sent eight juvenile offenders to Glen Mills in the last decade, Hoppin said. He added that the county has a limited number of beds in its own jurisdiction and few options statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We use out-of-state group homes as a last resort. Santa Cruz County would prefer to keep kids locally,\" Hoppin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Counties \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials have sent at least 30 boys to Glen Mills over the last decade, according to the city's top juvenile probation official, who said he hasn't heard of problems from any of them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We actually were very fond of Glen Mills,\" said Allen Nance, San Francisco's chief probation officer. \"In fact, among our juvenile justice practitioners, Glen Mills was one of the more popular placement sites for some of our most difficult-to-place youth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city placed juveniles in the Pennsylvania school because in-state facilities failed to meet their needs, Nance said. Some of the kids in the system who have dealt with extreme trauma or have been diagnosed with \"conduct disorder\" were sent to Glen Mills, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When San Francisco probation staff made their required monthly visits to Glen Mills, Nance said, there were never any complaints of abuse or neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Santa Cruz County, San Francisco stopped using Glen Mills in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The incidents of concern came up long after we had discontinued our utilization of Glen Mills,\" Nance said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nance said his department wanted to keep kids closer to home, reduce the number of out-of-state facilities it uses and choose others that offer more clinical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County sent around 45 boys to Glen Mills between 2002 and 2018, according to Michael Simms, deputy chief of the county probation department's juvenile service division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simms did not answer specific questions about how many complaints the county got from youth sent to Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We always follow up immediately on any credible accusations, which is consistent with our current response,\" Simms said in an emailed statement. \"We expect our youth to be treated with exemplary care and will not allow them to remain in any environment that does not provide such care.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://ccld.ca.gov/res/pdf/GM14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2014\u003c/a> Alameda County had eight boys at Glen Mills and in \u003ca href=\"http://ccld.ca.gov/res/pdf/GM15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015\u003c/a> the county had 13 teens at the facility, according to state reports. Officials there did not reply to a series of emailed questions about the boys' placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Teens From Southern California, Central Valley\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino, Imperial, Kern, Merced, Sacramento, San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties have all sent children to Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. County officials did not respond to requests for comment, but a county official disclosed two investigations into abuse complaints at Glen Mills during a Commission for Institutional Inspections \u003ca href=\"http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/bos/supdocs/117121.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">meeting\u003c/a> in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the same year that, according to the Inquirer, a 17-year-old Los Angeles boy tried to run away from the 800-acre facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newspaper reported that staff found the boy in the woods and took him to a school stairwell, where four counselors took turns sitting on his chest. The staff choked and punched him, the Inquirer said. He told the paper he could barely leave his bed for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have sent male youth to this facility for well over a decade,\" said TR Merickel, Kern County's chief probation officer, who estimated that around 40 boys from the county have stayed at Glen Mills during that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have never received any reports or allegations of staff abuse from the youth placed there,\" Merickel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Joaquin County has averaged between five and seven youths per year at Glen Mills since 1999, according to Steve Jackson, a county chief probation officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Joaquin County takes all allegations of abuse very seriously,\" Jackson said. \"At the time of this news article our county had one youth in the program who was getting ready to graduate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said his agency was not aware of any complaints from young people it sent to Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Kettering, Merced County's chief probation officer, said the county sent several juveniles to Glen Mills and heard only positive feedback about the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at the other county probation offices did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Out-of-State Placement Works\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 1998 California law requires state regulators to certify out-of-state facilities where juveniles are placed and directs the Department of Social Services to investigate allegations of abuse at those locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year the department first certified Glen Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, there are more than two dozen certified group homes in 10 states where county social services and probation departments can place foster children and juvenile wards \"whose needs cannot be met\" in California facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every time a kid from California is placed out of state by the juvenile court, the court has to make a finding on the record that there is no place in California that can meet their kids' needs,\" said Jim Salio, chief probation officer in San Luis Obispo County and the former president of the Chief Probation Officers of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some youth advocates say California probation officials use facilities like Glen Mills to send tough-to-treat teens as far away as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They want to get them out of town,\" said Macallair with the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. \"Sending them to the East Coast is one way. It takes the problem off your hands.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties pay most out-of-California facilities between $6,000 and $9,000 a month per placement, according to state regulators and county officials. That money is made up of federal, state and county funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You would think that in California we would have programs that could meet the needs of children in California and we wouldn't have to send them out of state. But that's not true,\" said Salio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's kind of mind-blowing. How come California can't meet the needs of their own children? What are we missing in our system?\" he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salio said county probation officials and the state should invest in keeping kids closer to their own communities and move away from the group-home model to short-term residential treatment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juvenile Advocates \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates who are pressing for juvenile justice reform agree. They say local probation officials should not be sending juveniles all the way across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the juvenile justice context, it is much better to serve students within their communities, within smaller local facilities,\" said Mozaffar, of the Juvenile Law Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McInerney, of the Education Law Center, said long-distance transfers of young people go against efforts to make juvenile justice rehabilitative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we should be doing is ensuring that there are options within the community, smaller settings where there can be better oversight,\" McInerney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mozaffar and McInerney say Californians who stayed at Glen Mills have not reported abuses to them yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We heard of extreme fear from everyone that if they told someone, that things would be worse for them,\" Mozaffar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Glen Mills did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school disputes the allegations of wrongdoing and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.philly.com/news/glen-mills-schools-appeal-emergency-removal-order-pennsylvania-abuse-students-20190404.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appealed\u003c/a> the decision by Pennsylvania regulators to revoke its permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Clarification: This story originally reported that several dozen juveniles from California were pulled from Glen Mills in March. That's because a California Department of Social Service spokesman said there were 36 juveniles at the school in 2018. But after the story published, a representative of the Pennsylvania Department of Department of Human Services said there were 14 juveniles from California at Glen Mills before the school was ordered to remove them.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>You can find more on the Philadelphia Inquirer's investigation into Glen Mills and its aftermath by visiting the \u003ca href=\"https://www.philly.com/author/gartner_lisa/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">author page\u003c/a> of the reporter who broke the story, Lisa Gartner. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11742455/how-california-teens-wound-up-at-pennsylvania-school-accused-of-battering-students","authors":["258"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_5559","news_19542","news_25587","news_17041"],"featImg":"news_11743829","label":"news_72"},"news_11728457":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11728457","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11728457","score":null,"sort":[1550955548000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-parents-of-13-plead-guilty-to-abuse-torture-imprisonment","title":"California Parents of 13 Plead Guilty to Abuse, Torture, Imprisonment","publishDate":1550955548,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Seated in a Riverside County courtroom on Friday, David Turpin, 57, and Louise Turpin, 50, pleaded guilty to 14 counts related to \u003ca href=\"https://riverside.courts.ca.gov/media/Turpin%20Complaint.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crimes \u003c/a>against 12 of their children, in a case that captured worldwide attention for its levels of depravity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each parent pleaded guilty to one count of torture, four counts of false imprisonment, six counts of cruelty to an adult dependent and three counts of willful child cruelty, according to Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children's ordeal came to light in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/16/578227666/couple-arrested-after-children-found-shackled-to-their-beds-in-california-home\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 2018\u003c/a> when a daughter managed to slip out of their Perris, Calif., house and, using a deactivated cellphone, call 911. Responding officers found \"several children shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks in dark and foul-smelling surroundings,\" \u003ca href=\"http://nixle.us/9TFYK\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to\u003c/a> the Riverside Sheriff's Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RivCoDA/status/1098996911216836608\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their parents were arrested and after Friday's plea face prison terms of 25 years to life; sentencing is scheduled for April 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The defendants ruined lives. So I think it's just and fair that the sentence be equivalent to first-degree murder,\" Hestrin said at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RivCoDA/videos/834054750281705/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news conference\u003c/a> Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hestrin said he has spoken to the children, \"and they all are relieved to know this case has been resolved. The defendants in this case essentially accepted the maximum punishment under current California law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Turpins had originally pleaded not guilty, but switching to guilty allows them to avoid trial. Hestrin said part of the reason prosecutors were amenable to the idea is that they did not want to put the children through the ordeal of testifying. He said, \"We decided that the victims have endured enough torture and abuse\" in what he described as \"among the worst, most aggravated child abuse cases that I have ever seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a period of eight years and a move from Texas to California, the family evaded police attention, home-schooling the children and maintaining a neat enough home exterior, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/18/578923611/this-is-depraved-conduct-couple-charged-with-torture-after-kids-found-shackled\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">authorities said\u003c/a>. But inside, the children were deprived of food, allowed to shower no more than once a year, beaten, strangled or tied up \"for weeks or even months at a time,\" Hestrin said last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children were so malnourished that their growth was apparently stunted. Police thought the girl who had sought help was 10; she was actually 17. The siblings were ages 2 to 29 at the time and police were \"shocked\" that seven were actually adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Several of the victims have cognitive impairment and neuropathy — which is nerve damage — as a result of this extreme and prolonged physical abuse,\" Hestrin said last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 13 children, but the charges relate to 12 of them because a judge had earlier ruled that the youngest was the only one spared of abuse. They now range from 3 to 30 years old, according to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hestrin said after meeting with them, he was struck by the optimism they display about their futures: \"They have a zest for life and huge smiles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=California+Couple%2C+Parents+Of+13%2C+Plead+Guilty+To+Abuse%2C+Torture%2C+Imprisonment+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"David and Louise Turpin face 25 years to life behind bars in an abuse case the DA said was 'among the worst ... ever seen.' It included charges of starving and shackling children to furniture.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1550959798,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":516},"headData":{"title":"California Parents of 13 Plead Guilty to Abuse, Torture, Imprisonment | KQED","description":"David and Louise Turpin face 25 years to life behind bars in an abuse case the DA said was 'among the worst ... ever seen.' 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Hong","nprByline":"\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=”https://www.npr.org/people/555303326/amy-held”>Amy Held\u003c/a>\u003cbr />\u003ca href=”http://npr.org/”>NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"697103949","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=697103949&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/697103949/california-couple-parents-of-13-plead-guilty-to-abuse-torture-imprisonment?ft=nprml&f=697103949","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:46:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:30:46 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 22 Feb 2019 18:46:35 -0500","path":"/news/11728457/california-parents-of-13-plead-guilty-to-abuse-torture-imprisonment","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Seated in a Riverside County courtroom on Friday, David Turpin, 57, and Louise Turpin, 50, pleaded guilty to 14 counts related to \u003ca href=\"https://riverside.courts.ca.gov/media/Turpin%20Complaint.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crimes \u003c/a>against 12 of their children, in a case that captured worldwide attention for its levels of depravity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each parent pleaded guilty to one count of torture, four counts of false imprisonment, six counts of cruelty to an adult dependent and three counts of willful child cruelty, according to Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children's ordeal came to light in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/16/578227666/couple-arrested-after-children-found-shackled-to-their-beds-in-california-home\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 2018\u003c/a> when a daughter managed to slip out of their Perris, Calif., house and, using a deactivated cellphone, call 911. Responding officers found \"several children shackled to their beds with chains and padlocks in dark and foul-smelling surroundings,\" \u003ca href=\"http://nixle.us/9TFYK\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to\u003c/a> the Riverside Sheriff's Department.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1098996911216836608"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Their parents were arrested and after Friday's plea face prison terms of 25 years to life; sentencing is scheduled for April 19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The defendants ruined lives. So I think it's just and fair that the sentence be equivalent to first-degree murder,\" Hestrin said at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RivCoDA/videos/834054750281705/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news conference\u003c/a> Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hestrin said he has spoken to the children, \"and they all are relieved to know this case has been resolved. The defendants in this case essentially accepted the maximum punishment under current California law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Turpins had originally pleaded not guilty, but switching to guilty allows them to avoid trial. Hestrin said part of the reason prosecutors were amenable to the idea is that they did not want to put the children through the ordeal of testifying. He said, \"We decided that the victims have endured enough torture and abuse\" in what he described as \"among the worst, most aggravated child abuse cases that I have ever seen.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a period of eight years and a move from Texas to California, the family evaded police attention, home-schooling the children and maintaining a neat enough home exterior, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/18/578923611/this-is-depraved-conduct-couple-charged-with-torture-after-kids-found-shackled\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">authorities said\u003c/a>. But inside, the children were deprived of food, allowed to shower no more than once a year, beaten, strangled or tied up \"for weeks or even months at a time,\" Hestrin said last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children were so malnourished that their growth was apparently stunted. Police thought the girl who had sought help was 10; she was actually 17. The siblings were ages 2 to 29 at the time and police were \"shocked\" that seven were actually adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Several of the victims have cognitive impairment and neuropathy — which is nerve damage — as a result of this extreme and prolonged physical abuse,\" Hestrin said last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are 13 children, but the charges relate to 12 of them because a judge had earlier ruled that the youngest was the only one spared of abuse. They now range from 3 to 30 years old, according to The Associated Press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hestrin said after meeting with them, he was struck by the optimism they display about their futures: \"They have a zest for life and huge smiles.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=California+Couple%2C+Parents+Of+13%2C+Plead+Guilty+To+Abuse%2C+Torture%2C+Imprisonment+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11728457/california-parents-of-13-plead-guilty-to-abuse-torture-imprisonment","authors":["byline_news_11728457"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_5559","news_22732","news_20859"],"featImg":"news_11728458","label":"source_news_11728457"},"news_11699763":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11699763","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11699763","score":null,"sort":[1539911536000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-jose-diocese-names-15-priests-accused-of-child-sexual-abuse-but-critics-say-the-list-falls-short","title":"San Jose Diocese Names 15 Clergy Accused of Child Sexual Abuse, But Critics Say the List Falls Short","publishDate":1539911536,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The Diocese of San Jose \u003ca href=\"https://www.dsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/List-Final-Format-English.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released the names\u003c/a> Thursday of 15 clergy who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I express my deepest apologies for the actions of those who were in positions of authority and who violated that sacred trust by abusing children,” the San Jose Bishop Patrick McGrath said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dsj.org/ministries/protecting-gods-children/clergy-disclosure-list/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement\u003c/a> Thursday. “The sexual abuse of children and young people is an appalling crime and a sin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten of the clergy on the list are deceased. The remaining five have been permanently banned from the ministry, according to the diocese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release of names comes amid renewed scrutiny of the Roman Catholic Church's long-running sexual abuse scandals sparked by a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/catholic-church-clergy-sex-abuse-read-the-full-grand-jury-report-20180814.html\">Pennsylvania grand jury report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/catholic-church-sex-abuse-pennsylvania.html\">The report was released in August\u003c/a> and is considered to be one of the most comprehensive investigations of church sexual abuse in the U.S. The Pennsylvania grand jury found that allegations went back some 70 years and called out more than 300 priests, some of whom are now at the highest levels of leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5011653-List-Final-Format-English.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, dioceses across California have made an effort to reassure parishioners that the church is taking proactive measures. Earlier this month, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sbdiocese.org/documents/latestnews/Priest-List.pdf\">Diocese of San Bernardino\u003c/a>, which is east of Los Angeles, released the names of 34 priests who have been credibly accused of child sexual abuse. The bishop of the Diocese of Oakland, Michael C. Barber, \u003ca href=\"https://www.catholicvoiceoakland.org/2018/10-08/frontpage1.htm\">wrote in a blog post\u003c/a> he will follow suit within about 45 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrath had announced his plans to disclose the names in August. The release of those names followed four \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/22/horrified-parishioners-blast-san-jose-diocese-catholic-church-over-sexual-abuse-allegations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listening sessions\u003c/a> McGrath held with parishioners throughout the diocese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Published in English, Spanish and Vietnamese, the list includes where each priest worked, the allegations made against them and when the claims were reported to the diocese. The dates on the reports range from 1976 to 2018. For several of the priests listed, there were multiple allegations over extended periods of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have attempted to make this list as accurate and complete as possible,\" McGrath said in the statement. An independent audit of priest personnel files will start next month, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Should additional credible allegations surface during the investigation, those names will be added to the list that I am providing today,\" McGrath said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release is a clear sign of the diocese's effort to reassure its parishioners that it is taking proactive measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has also recently held listening sessions at parishes and is leaning towards releasing a list, too, said communications director Mike Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our vigilance, training and prevention efforts are ongoing and we continually seek to improve them,\" Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/18/san-jose-diocese-to-name-accused-priests-today/\">told the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a>. \"There can no longer be a culture of secrecy in the church, but one of transparency and accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among victims' support groups, however, reactions to the disclosure were mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I applaud the list and like the fact it includes the places where the accused priests worked,\" said Tim Stier, a former priest and longtime activist pushing for church reform. He noted that the San Jose diocese has responded more proactively than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That will help victims who have never come forward to remember and possibly come forward,\" Stier added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he expressed doubt that much would change unless the church addressed the root of the problem, in what he described as the current \"all-male, pseudo-celibate, secretive, hierarchical culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As long as that system remains in place, abuse will continue,\" Stier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joey Piscitelli, who heads the regional Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), called the diocese's decision a \"calculated first step.\" Releasing the names, he said, is an attempt to \"show they're being good and upfront and forthright, when in fact I think they're trying to beat investigations by the state to the punch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said the list falls blatantly short, noting that it leaves out a number of well-known offenders, including Jesuit priests in San Jose who have been accused or sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just off the top of my head, I can think of four names that they left off the list,\" Piscitelli said, referring to one of the overlooked priests as a \"notorious pedophile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called the release \"the tip of the iceberg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is some kind of attempt to give names, but they do leave names out, and I think that's intentional and I think if they were more forthright, they would list all the names,\" Piscitelli said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The release comes amid renewed scrutiny of sex scandals in the Roman Catholic Church.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1556913201,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":768},"headData":{"title":"San Jose Diocese Names 15 Clergy Accused of Child Sexual Abuse, But Critics Say the List Falls Short | KQED","description":"The release comes amid renewed scrutiny of sex scandals in the Roman Catholic Church.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11699763 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11699763","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/10/18/san-jose-diocese-names-15-priests-accused-of-child-sexual-abuse-but-critics-say-the-list-falls-short/","disqusTitle":"San Jose Diocese Names 15 Clergy Accused of Child Sexual Abuse, But Critics Say the List Falls Short","path":"/news/11699763/san-jose-diocese-names-15-priests-accused-of-child-sexual-abuse-but-critics-say-the-list-falls-short","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Diocese of San Jose \u003ca href=\"https://www.dsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/List-Final-Format-English.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released the names\u003c/a> Thursday of 15 clergy who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I express my deepest apologies for the actions of those who were in positions of authority and who violated that sacred trust by abusing children,” the San Jose Bishop Patrick McGrath said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.dsj.org/ministries/protecting-gods-children/clergy-disclosure-list/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement\u003c/a> Thursday. “The sexual abuse of children and young people is an appalling crime and a sin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten of the clergy on the list are deceased. The remaining five have been permanently banned from the ministry, according to the diocese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release of names comes amid renewed scrutiny of the Roman Catholic Church's long-running sexual abuse scandals sparked by a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www2.philly.com/philly/news/catholic-church-clergy-sex-abuse-read-the-full-grand-jury-report-20180814.html\">Pennsylvania grand jury report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/us/catholic-church-sex-abuse-pennsylvania.html\">The report was released in August\u003c/a> and is considered to be one of the most comprehensive investigations of church sexual abuse in the U.S. The Pennsylvania grand jury found that allegations went back some 70 years and called out more than 300 priests, some of whom are now at the highest levels of leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5011653-List-Final-Format-English.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, dioceses across California have made an effort to reassure parishioners that the church is taking proactive measures. Earlier this month, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sbdiocese.org/documents/latestnews/Priest-List.pdf\">Diocese of San Bernardino\u003c/a>, which is east of Los Angeles, released the names of 34 priests who have been credibly accused of child sexual abuse. The bishop of the Diocese of Oakland, Michael C. Barber, \u003ca href=\"https://www.catholicvoiceoakland.org/2018/10-08/frontpage1.htm\">wrote in a blog post\u003c/a> he will follow suit within about 45 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McGrath had announced his plans to disclose the names in August. The release of those names followed four \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/22/horrified-parishioners-blast-san-jose-diocese-catholic-church-over-sexual-abuse-allegations/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listening sessions\u003c/a> McGrath held with parishioners throughout the diocese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Published in English, Spanish and Vietnamese, the list includes where each priest worked, the allegations made against them and when the claims were reported to the diocese. The dates on the reports range from 1976 to 2018. For several of the priests listed, there were multiple allegations over extended periods of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have attempted to make this list as accurate and complete as possible,\" McGrath said in the statement. An independent audit of priest personnel files will start next month, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Should additional credible allegations surface during the investigation, those names will be added to the list that I am providing today,\" McGrath said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release is a clear sign of the diocese's effort to reassure its parishioners that it is taking proactive measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has also recently held listening sessions at parishes and is leaning towards releasing a list, too, said communications director Mike Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our vigilance, training and prevention efforts are ongoing and we continually seek to improve them,\" Brown \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/18/san-jose-diocese-to-name-accused-priests-today/\">told the San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a>. \"There can no longer be a culture of secrecy in the church, but one of transparency and accountability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among victims' support groups, however, reactions to the disclosure were mixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I applaud the list and like the fact it includes the places where the accused priests worked,\" said Tim Stier, a former priest and longtime activist pushing for church reform. He noted that the San Jose diocese has responded more proactively than others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That will help victims who have never come forward to remember and possibly come forward,\" Stier added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he expressed doubt that much would change unless the church addressed the root of the problem, in what he described as the current \"all-male, pseudo-celibate, secretive, hierarchical culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As long as that system remains in place, abuse will continue,\" Stier said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joey Piscitelli, who heads the regional Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), called the diocese's decision a \"calculated first step.\" Releasing the names, he said, is an attempt to \"show they're being good and upfront and forthright, when in fact I think they're trying to beat investigations by the state to the punch.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said the list falls blatantly short, noting that it leaves out a number of well-known offenders, including Jesuit priests in San Jose who have been accused or sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just off the top of my head, I can think of four names that they left off the list,\" Piscitelli said, referring to one of the overlooked priests as a \"notorious pedophile.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called the release \"the tip of the iceberg.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is some kind of attempt to give names, but they do leave names out, and I think that's intentional and I think if they were more forthright, they would list all the names,\" Piscitelli said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11699763/san-jose-diocese-names-15-priests-accused-of-child-sexual-abuse-but-critics-say-the-list-falls-short","authors":["1263"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1177","news_25609","news_5559","news_2700"],"featImg":"news_11700100","label":"news_72"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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