Prosecutors Want Teacher Jailed for Sex with Teenage Boys
Mother of Five Charged in Teen Sex Case
14 NOV 1998
ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS / LUCY QUINLIVAN
Ramsey County named in abuse lawsuit against juvenile detention center
Cook faces charges in outstate case
MINNESOTA -- The mother of a 13-year-old boy who was allegedly abused by a juvenile detention center cook filed a civil lawsuit Friday against the worker, Ramsey County and the company that operates the detention center in southwestern Minnesota.
Ms. Sharon S., was charged in September with three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. She allegedly had sex with three boys ages 13 and 14 and gave them and other boys cigarettes and marijuana.
Attorney John Murrin said Pinnacle Programs, the operator of the detention center in Rock County, was negligent because it did not provide training and supervision of employees to prevent the abuse. The suit also claims Ms. S. and Pinnacle Programs violated the boy's rights under Minnesota's Human Rights Act.
The boy was placed in the treatment center by the Ramsey County Juvenile Court. The lawsuit says the county didn't adequately investigate or supervise centers that, like Pinnacle, were given contracts to treat juvenile offenders.
"The state government is contracting traditionally state corrections to private entrepreneurs," Murrin said. "They are not trained at the same level of safety, caution and protection as the state."
Ms. S., the mother of five, said she did not know about the lawsuit and had not seen a copy of the complaint.
"It's a bunch of s---. My husband says those kids can go to hell," Ms. S. said.
According to Maurice Crowley, owner and director of Pinnacle Programs, treatment center administrators learned of the allegations when a staff member intercepted a note one boy was passing to another before a group therapy session.
Ms. S. was screened before being hired at Pinnacle and had no prior criminal record.
The suit seeks more than $50,000 in damages.
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