WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:03:09" NOTE recognizability:0.787 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.871486735555556 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.790 Former resident of an embattled NOTE Confidence: 0.871486735555556 00:00:01.790 --> 00:00:03.222 youth behavioral Treatment Center NOTE Confidence: 0.871486735555556 00:00:03.222 --> 00:00:04.659 wanted better protections for NOTE Confidence: 0.871486735555556 00:00:04.659 --> 00:00:06.369 all children in congregate care. NOTE Confidence: 0.871486735555556 00:00:06.370 --> 00:00:08.840 They also want the state of Ohio to cut all NOTE Confidence: 0.871486735555556 00:00:08.906 --> 00:00:11.265 ties of sequel youth and Family Services. NOTE Confidence: 0.871486735555556 00:00:11.270 --> 00:00:13.046 That's the parent company of sequel, NOTE Confidence: 0.871486735555556 00:00:13.050 --> 00:00:15.020 Pomegranate, which closed this fall NOTE Confidence: 0.871486735555556 00:00:15.020 --> 00:00:17.445 two years after 10 Investigates first NOTE Confidence: 0.871486735555556 00:00:17.445 --> 00:00:19.767 exposed incidents of violence and abuse. NOTE Confidence: 0.587959085714286 00:00:20.230 --> 00:00:21.662 As chief investigative reporter NOTE Confidence: 0.587959085714286 00:00:21.662 --> 00:00:22.736 breaded Haberly explains, NOTE Confidence: 0.587959085714286 00:00:22.740 --> 00:00:24.365 similar problems have led to NOTE Confidence: 0.587959085714286 00:00:24.365 --> 00:00:25.990 more closures at other sequel NOTE Confidence: 0.587959085714286 00:00:26.048 --> 00:00:27.728 facilities across the country. NOTE Confidence: 0.587959085714286 00:00:27.730 --> 00:00:28.798 New Mexico State NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:28.810 --> 00:00:30.274 inspection found the injuries. NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:30.274 --> 00:00:32.470 This child received happened when a NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:32.526 --> 00:00:34.773 staff member struck him with a tree NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:34.773 --> 00:00:36.431 branch that behavioral youth treatment NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:36.431 --> 00:00:38.327 facility named in the report is NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:38.327 --> 00:00:40.620 owned and operated by sequel Youth NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:40.620 --> 00:00:42.695 and Family Services and recently NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:42.695 --> 00:00:44.902 announced its closure in wake of NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:44.902 --> 00:00:46.632 allegations of abuse and neglect. NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:48.698 It is one of several sequel owned NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:48.698 --> 00:00:50.265 facilities across the country that NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:50.265 --> 00:00:52.155 has closed in recent years amid NOTE Confidence: 0.866224866666666 00:00:52.155 --> 00:00:54.179 allegations of abuse and other problems. NOTE Confidence: 0.660819984285714 00:00:54.420 --> 00:00:57.955 There are a number of just horrific. NOTE Confidence: 0.660819984285714 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:00.090 Problems that our monitors detected NOTE Confidence: 0.674182295454545 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:01.239 earlier this month. NOTE Confidence: 0.674182295454545 00:01:01.239 --> 00:01:03.237 We spoke to Carissa Tashiro with NOTE Confidence: 0.674182295454545 00:01:03.237 --> 00:01:04.892 disability rights, New Mexico. NOTE Confidence: 0.674182295454545 00:01:04.892 --> 00:01:07.122 The nonprofit conducted its own NOTE Confidence: 0.674182295454545 00:01:07.122 --> 00:01:08.460 investigation into sequels, NOTE Confidence: 0.674182295454545 00:01:08.460 --> 00:01:09.720 Bernalillo Academy, NOTE Confidence: 0.714513866153846 00:01:09.750 --> 00:01:11.232 and then there's just a rampant NOTE Confidence: 0.714513866153846 00:01:11.232 --> 00:01:13.169 culture of peer on peer violence here NOTE Confidence: 0.751819214444444 00:01:13.180 --> 00:01:14.784 in Columbus. Sequel Pomegranate, NOTE Confidence: 0.751819214444444 00:01:14.784 --> 00:01:16.789 which briefly reopened and rebranded NOTE Confidence: 0.883641666666667 00:01:16.800 --> 00:01:19.020 itself as Tory earlier this year, NOTE Confidence: 0.883641666666667 00:01:19.020 --> 00:01:20.268 announced it would close NOTE Confidence: 0.872340315714286 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:21.916 in October. Our reporting NOTE Confidence: 0.872340315714286 00:01:21.916 --> 00:01:23.961 uncovered a repeated pattern of NOTE Confidence: 0.872340315714286 00:01:23.961 --> 00:01:25.738 allegations of violence and abuse. NOTE Confidence: 0.872340315714286 00:01:25.740 --> 00:01:28.240 Here assaulted our staff members. NOTE Confidence: 0.872340315714286 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:30.184 With staff being injured by children NOTE Confidence: 0.872340315714286 00:01:30.184 --> 00:01:31.910 and children complaining of staff NOTE Confidence: 0.872340315714286 00:01:31.910 --> 00:01:33.770 hurting them through painful restraint NOTE Confidence: 0.655105195142857 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:37.049 holds, they put you in a hold. NOTE Confidence: 0.655105195142857 00:01:37.050 --> 00:01:39.507 They put your hands behind your back NOTE Confidence: 0.655105195142857 00:01:39.507 --> 00:01:41.649 until you until almost buckles. NOTE Confidence: 0.655105195142857 00:01:41.650 --> 00:01:42.616 They said that's the only way NOTE Confidence: 0.655105195142857 00:01:42.616 --> 00:01:43.730 they get their kids to calm down. NOTE Confidence: 0.655105195142857 00:01:43.730 --> 00:01:44.519 They restrain them. NOTE Confidence: 0.9312278625 00:01:44.570 --> 00:01:46.018 This reporting has been. NOTE Confidence: 0.72648258 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:53.062 Capital two. I guess back up NOTE Confidence: 0.72648258 00:01:53.062 --> 00:01:55.298 what what we've said all along. NOTE Confidence: 0.801495606666667 00:01:55.390 --> 00:01:57.020 Addison Torrance is a former NOTE Confidence: 0.801495606666667 00:01:57.020 --> 00:01:58.324 resident at sequel Pomegranate, NOTE Confidence: 0.801495606666667 00:01:58.330 --> 00:02:00.530 who is among a group of past residents NOTE Confidence: 0.801495606666667 00:02:00.530 --> 00:02:02.485 now trying to persuade the state to NOTE Confidence: 0.801495606666667 00:02:02.485 --> 00:02:04.848 sever all ties with SQL and not allow NOTE Confidence: 0.801495606666667 00:02:04.848 --> 00:02:06.756 the company to resume operating here. NOTE Confidence: 0.61795818 00:02:06.930 --> 00:02:09.290 The state is very receptive. NOTE Confidence: 0.61795818 00:02:09.290 --> 00:02:10.890 I think they're wanting to NOTE Confidence: 0.61795818 00:02:10.890 --> 00:02:13.010 work with us to prevent things. NOTE Confidence: 0.61795818 00:02:13.010 --> 00:02:15.170 Like this from happening again, NOTE Confidence: 0.61795818 00:02:15.170 --> 00:02:17.650 what happened at Pomegranate was NOTE Confidence: 0.61795818 00:02:17.650 --> 00:02:20.074 horrendous, and at this point NOTE Confidence: 0.61795818 00:02:20.074 --> 00:02:21.998 nobody seriously disputes that. NOTE Confidence: 0.8487907325 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:26.040 I called the co-founder of SQL again today, NOTE Confidence: 0.8487907325 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:28.112 hoping to ask him about future plans for NOTE Confidence: 0.8487907325 00:02:28.112 --> 00:02:29.978 the company and his effort to rebrand. NOTE Confidence: 0.8487907325 00:02:29.980 --> 00:02:31.392 Sequel under another name, NOTE Confidence: 0.8487907325 00:02:31.392 --> 00:02:33.450 but I haven't heard back. I NOTE Confidence: 0.863780871111111 00:02:33.460 --> 00:02:35.520 think that reporting has had NOTE Confidence: 0.863780871111111 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:37.168 a pretty significant impact. NOTE Confidence: 0.632072074444444 00:02:37.180 --> 00:02:38.556 This former resident asked NOTE Confidence: 0.632072074444444 00:02:38.556 --> 00:02:40.276 that her identity be withheld, NOTE Confidence: 0.632072074444444 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:42.023 but says she too would like to NOTE Confidence: 0.632072074444444 00:02:42.023 --> 00:02:43.630 see the state adopt additional NOTE Confidence: 0.632072074444444 00:02:43.630 --> 00:02:45.635 safeguards for children so that NOTE Confidence: 0.632072074444444 00:02:45.635 --> 00:02:47.300 history doesn't repeat itself. NOTE Confidence: 0.632072074444444 00:02:47.300 --> 00:02:49.946 In Columbus, Bennett Haverly 10 Investigates NOTE Confidence: 0.942787823333333 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:52.181 a spokesman for the Ohio Department of NOTE Confidence: 0.942787823333333 00:02:52.181 --> 00:02:53.779 Mental Health and Addiction Services, NOTE Confidence: 0.942787823333333 00:02:53.780 --> 00:02:55.780 says while his department cannot NOTE Confidence: 0.942787823333333 00:02:55.780 --> 00:02:57.380 make any obligations related. NOTE Confidence: 0.942787823333333 00:02:57.380 --> 00:02:59.444 To what SQL may do in the future, NOTE Confidence: 0.942787823333333 00:02:59.450 --> 00:03:02.055 it can comment to a commit NOTE Confidence: 0.942787823333333 00:03:02.055 --> 00:03:03.480 rather to a thorough review, NOTE Confidence: 0.942787823333333 00:03:03.480 --> 00:03:05.370 assessment and discussion of changes NOTE Confidence: 0.942787823333333 00:03:05.370 --> 00:03:07.260 that the state should consider NOTE Confidence: 0.942787823333333 00:03:07.320 --> 00:03:09.000 to further ensure patient safety.