US EditionCCHR Demands Urgent Reform to Stop Child Abuse in Youth Behavioral Facilities
- In response to increasing reports of mistreatment and fatalities in youth psychiatric and behavioral care facilities, a human rights watchdog group is calling for prompt and comprehensive federal measures in 2025 to tackle these abuses nationwide.
- This call comes after Congress enacted legislation in December 2024 aimed at addressing institutional child abuse and following a Senate report from June 2024 that linked harm to profit-focused youth behavioral hospitals.
- Numerous incidents include use of seclusion, restraint, forced drugging, sexual abuse, suicides, and hundreds of restraint cases confirmed by state and national investigations.
- Attorney Kayla Ferrel Onder described the abuse as a "systemic failure which needs to stop," and CCHR President Jan Eastgate called it a "moral imperative" to end child warehousing.
- CCHR demands stronger oversight, criminal penalties for executives, withholding funding from abusive facilities, and acceleration of federal investigations to prevent further tragedies.
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Temple Daily Telegram
CCHR Demands Urgent Reform to Stop Child Abuse in Youth Behavioral Facilities
LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 9, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Amid a surge of reported abuse and deaths in psychiatric and behavioral residential programs for youth, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) is urging immediate and sweeping federal intervention.…
CCHR Demands Urgent Reform to Stop Child Abuse in Youth Behavioral Facilities - Send2Press Newswire
LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 9, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Amid a surge of reported abuse and deaths in psychiatric and behavioral residential programs for youth, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) is urging immediate and sweeping federal intervention. CCHR warns that continued inaction by state and federal agencies endangers lives and enables a mental health system where vulnerable children and adolescents are subjecte…
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