Unlicensed NC company with troubled history gets $4M to house migrant children
Source: WRAL.com
RALEIGH, N.C. — In early 2018, state regulators came calling at a nondescript group home in Lumber Bridge, situated just off the highway southwest of the Robeson County town’s solitary stop light.
The seven children housed there were all boys between the ages of 9 and 17 and suffered from a range of mental health issues like depression, schizophrenia and PTSD – all serious enough to keep them on the premises around the clock.
Inside the facility, state officials reported, the boys sat for most of the day watching Netflix and playing video games. There were allegations of abuse and of confinement in a “time-out room.”
There was supposed to be a teacher here. Activities. Individual treatment. Counseling.
The children got none of that, according to an audit the state conducted over multiple days in early April 2018.
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