New lawsuit filed against Sequel facility By Caroline Klapp | December 17, 2020 at 10:43 PM CST - Updated December 18 at 12:26 AM
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A new lawsuit was filed against a Lawrence County psychiatric youth treatment facility claims staff abused and neglected a then 14-year-old boy who needed help. Sequel Youth & Family Services is being sued for abuse and neglect of children. An attorney says his client lived in a house of horrors and they want the company shutdown. (Source: WAFF)
This is just the newest twist in a massive investigation into Sequel Youth and Family services we’ve been covering for months.
More states sever ties with for-profit Sequel Youth and Family Services after reports of abuse
Ohio recently announced it was forcing Sequel Pomegranate to relinquish its license to operate its residential treatment facility. Author: Bennett Haeberle Updated: 6:04 PM EST December 17, 2020
COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio announced in recent days that it was forcing Sequel Pomegranate to relinquish its license to operate its residential treatment facility.
The move came 18 months after 10 Investigates first exposed a pattern of violence and abuse that left children ages 12 to 17 injured while in the facility’s care.
Now more states like Michigan, Oregon, Washington and California have either shuttered facilities tied to the parent company, Sequel Youth and Family Services, or are ending their business relationships in wake of concern about improper restraints, violence – and in some cases like Alabama – poor living conditions.
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Problems have persisted at Sequel Youth and Family Services facilities across the country
On Friday, Ohio announced that Sequel Pomegranate would be forced to relinquish its license after a pattern of “recurring incidents . Author: Bennett Haeberle Updated: 7:06 PM EST December 14, 2020
COLUMBUS, Ohio Sequel Pomegranate, the embattled teen psychiatric facility in Columbus, has become the latest in a string of behavioral health treatment facility owned or operated by Sequel Youth and Family Services to be effectively closed or sanctioned by a regulatory agency in their respective states within the past two years.
Since 2019, 10 Investigates has found at least a half dozen facilities operated by Sequel Youth Family Services that have either closed or faced other sanctions like having their admissions suspended because of allegations that children in their care were subjected to violence, abuse or poor conditions.
State requires Sequel Pomegranate to relinquish its license citing recurring incidents
Sequel Pomegranate will be barred from seeking a new license to operate a residential facility for a minimum period of at least 10 months. Author: Bennett Haeberle Updated: 11:53 PM EST December 11, 2020
Citing recurring incidents – some of which included violent assaults and improper restraints of children - the state announced Friday it would require Sequel Pomegranate to immediately relinquish its license and would bar it from re-applying to operate its residential psychiatric facility for teens for nearly a year.
Through a series of investigative reports that date back to July 2019, 10 Investigates uncovered how teens at the facility were being exposed to repeated incidents of violence and improper restraints.