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With a parent’s consent, two people are sent to surprise their child while they are asleep to forcefully take them to a wilderness program or residential treatment center.
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Since 2015, some 20,000 teens have been sent to treatment centers in Utah. That’s more than anywhere else in the country. Those kids are often brought here by a transport company.
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Kylar Frederick Williams, 23, was arrested Tuesday.
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One facility is being sued after a staffer broke a boy’s wrist, while another has been disciplined by the state for similar tactics.
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Federal regulations would impact the more than 100 teen treatment facilities in Utah, which plays an outsized role in the industry.
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In 2019, a girl from Bermuda died by suicide at West Ridge Academy, a teen treatment facility in West Jordan. The Salt Lake Tribune reports her parents filed a lawsuit against the facility last month. The litigation comes as a new state law requires centers to develop suicide prevention policies.
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Up until 2019, the agency regulating Utah’s massive youth treatment industry rarely cited facilities for violating rules – even after cases of abuse. After a 2016 incident left a teenager with a concussion, state regulators listened to his mom’s complaint – and then did nothing about it.