by hmm » Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:09 pm
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2005/oct/17/101708988.html">www.lasvegassun.com/sunbi...08988.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Documents Reveal Abuse at Ranch for Boys<br><br>ASSOCIATED PRESS<br><br>SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Newly released documents reveal multiple allegations of sexual abuse stretching back more than 25 years at a home for troubled boys and indicate problems have continued in recent years.<br><br>State Department of Social and Health Services records obtained by The Spokesman-Review newspaper for a story published Sunday include five allegations of sexually inappropriate interactions between boys and adults associated with the Morning Star Boys' Ranch in the past decade.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>The 871 pages of documents, released in response to a public records request by the newspaper</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, also include several accounts of molestation and rape among the residents of the home, which has been shaken in recent months by allegations of physical and sexual assaults that date back decades. "<br><br>This may be tied in to Jim West,republican mayor of spokane who was outed recently and is in the middle of a scandal relating to sex with young boys/men going back to the 70's.The newspaper that requested the records is the spokesman review,the same that "broke" the Jim West story.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spokesmanreview.com/jimwest/">www.spokesmanreview.com/jimwest/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
