Turnaround Ranch sued

This is disturbing. A lawsuit was filed this week that alleges that an 11-year-old boy was molested and raped by an older boy last year at Turnaround Ranch, and that the treatment center for youths failed to report the matter to the state’s child abuse hot line. The lawsuit has been filed in Jasper County Circuit Court, Freeman Health System, Ozark Center and Turnaround Ranch as defendants. Two counselors and a case manager have also been named as defendants. The mother of the boy claims four incidents of assault on her son while he was at Turnaround Ranch. The lawsuit states that another resident struck the boy with a belt, a 16-year-old resident who lived in the same cottage with him allegedly groped him, neither boy was transferred to another cottage, and the older one subsequently raped the younger one in a restroom and sexually molested him a second time the same day. Sheriff Ken Copeland said his department investigated an alleged sexual assault at Turnaround Ranch involving two juveniles, he also stated that he could not discuss details of the case any further than that.
This is so disturbing to me, I know people who's children have been residents int his place. my younger sisters have both had their turns in this place, and to think that this could have been anyone that I know, let alone anyone at all is just sickening to me. This is supposed to be a place for children to go that is secure and well monitored. Obviously I was mistaken in what I thought that this place was supposed to be. It is one thing to have our children court ordered to a facility like this, it is something completely different when you hear of something like this happening to our children. This just makes me sick. Where were the responsible parties at the time of these incidents? Are they not there to keep an eye on things? Are there not individuals assigned to each one of these separate houses? I think that there are. Where were they?
The reason that I reacted this way is because these are children. Where on earth did that child get the idea to rape another child. They are not in prison, they are in a center for troubled children, children! They are supposed to be being watched by capable adults. I do not understand what happened or how this could have happened under the watch of adult supervision. This is really upsetting to me. And I hope that whatever comes out in the wash in this case, the adults are made to stand up and take some responsibility for the apparent lack of supervision.