2 SCHOOL WORKERS FACE ABUSE CHARGE

Published on 01/29/1999. Article 9 of 11 found.
SOURCE: (AP)
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PITTSFIELD -- Two workers at a Stockbridge school for
emotionally troubled teens have pleaded not guilty to charges
stemming from a medication overdose suffered by an 18-year-old
student. Marcus Pritchett, 37, and JoAnn McIntyre, 29, both of
Stockbridge and employees of the DeSisto School, were arraigned
in Berkshire Superior Court on a single count each of abuse or
neglect of a disabled person resulting in bodily injury. They were
released pending a pretrial hearing March 3. Authorities have said
only...

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URGED TO REBUFF SON, PARENTS SAY HE
WAS RAPED WHILE ON THE RUN

Published on 07/06/1996. Article 4 of 11 found.
SOURCE: By Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Globe Staff
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When a student runs away from the DeSisto School -- the
$46,000-a-year therapeutic school in the Berkshires that has been
the target of state abuse investigations and dozens of lawsuits --
parents are told not to take their children back home or even to
accept their phone calls.

It's called ``street therapy,'' according to the father of a former
student. But while toughing it out on the streets during Hurricane
Andrew after running away from a DeSisto program, the man's son
was raped and attacked a

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HARD LESSONS AT SCHOOL FOR THE
TROUBLED PARENTS DIVIDED ON DESISTO METHODS

Published on 06/02/1996. Article 7 of 11 found.
SOURCE: By Indira A. R. Lakshmanan, Globe Staff

STOCKBRIDGE -- Whenever Nathaniel Davies tried to run away
from his $46,000-a-year-boarding school here, staff and students
would chase him down, throw him to the ground and beat him.
Afterward, he says, they would ``corner'' him, forcing him to face a
wall and beg for forgiveness.

Davies, now 21 and earning straight A's at another school,
considers his treatment abuse. But officials at The DeSisto School
say they are only teaching troubled teen-agers a lesson, one that is
uncomfortable but necessary.

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