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[the boy] from breathing and she
feared from [sic] his life.” After
she screamed at the staff member to let the boy go, he dropped
him to the floor, leaving the boy
with a bloody nose.
When the Pembroke Pines Police Department called the staffer to follow up, he replied: “This
ain’t no big deal,” while refusing
to answer questions, according
to the report.
At YSI’s Broward Girls Academy, a 30-bed program less than
a mile away from Thompson,
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18-year-old Destinee Bowers
didn’t want to go to an evening
church service last year. Normally
she was permitted to stay in a
dayroom, she said, but staff members declined to watch her, instead ordering her to go to church.
According to Bowers, when
she refused, a staff member tried
to pull her out of her bed. She
resisted, she said, prompting the
staffer to choke her.
“I was trying to tell her, ‘I can’t
resist, you’ve got my arms, you’ve
got my throat,’” Bowers recalled.
She said once the staff member
released her, she started throwing up. She asked to call the 24-
Bowers with
her mother,
Jeanna, at
their Orlando,
Fla., home.