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A clerical error could result in the dismissal of charges against a former state worker accused of assaulting a 15-year-old girl. A year ago, Tama County prosecutors charged former Iowa Juvenile Home youth services worker Robert McFatridge with assault in connection with an altercation at the home on Nov. 4, 2012. The date was mistakenly listed as Feb. 4, 2013 in initial court filings
Source: The Des Moines Register
Posted on: June 20, 2014
The Register examines the home's actions leading up to the death of 13-year-old Chris Campbell. Part of a series of investigations in the home's use of isolation cells.
Source: The Des Moines Register
Posted on: October 7, 2013
The state-run juvenile home in Toledo, Iowa has confined teenage girls to small isolation cells for months at a time — in one case, reportedly, for almost a full year. The Iowa Department of Human Services was unable to say how many children were locked up in the cells over the past two years.
Source: The Des Moines Register
Posted on: July 31, 2013