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Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:43:14 -0600

You may not know what bad deeds Maryville did to warrant closing, but I do and personally. In fact, I testified in the Illinos House about Maryville and I can tell you that it took nearly 10 years for government agencies to crack down after giving Maryville multiple opportunities for internal corrective actions. Yes, they have a good marketing image but some of that can be attributed to their being about to shield their bad deeds behind the laws protecting juvenile privacy. What things happened at Maryville? Well, one little boy I dealt with was one of many being prostituted to local men in the local park's pool locker room by a park district employee during Maryville field trips. What action did Maryville take when his brother, also living at their facility, told the Maryville staff? None - not good for their image. It wasn't until the kid bled out from you know where that the hospital he was rushed to had to report the activity to police. How many kids were raped by other kids while in the Maryville facility. Plenty. While their identities were private, the police stats for that address revealed the problem to our community. Where were the kids at night? Out on the streets, some selling drugs, some hanging, some making money as prostitute and punching car windows for stereos. Where were the kids during the day? Not a school where I was a school council member. They just let them come back in in the morning and sleep it off rather than attending school. Why were some of these kids there? The courts adjudicates juvenile delinquentsthat the parents can't handle into DCFS care. The state is supposed to place those kids in secured facilities - an midway alternative to jail and totally unsecured facilities, but it does not. Thus, Maryville took both innocent babes and adjudicated delinquents and comingled them in unsecured facilities. Guess who go pregnant? Guess whose neighborhood experienced car jackings, intentional house fires, robberies and beatings of elderly persons coming from the Jewel and currency exchange? The Maryville model did not work and they failed to adjust it even when their facility consumed on average the resources of 2 local police on each shift to respond to and write up the crimes? Security? What security? I understand how one longs to be sympathetic to perceived do-gooders, but like doctors they should do no harm while they are doing it. Maryville miserably failed that standard.

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Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:56:04 -0600

Have they removed the management from a religious community that has no business taking on a state job?

Chicagoist: A New Beginning for Maryville Academy

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