Forum on Facilities Closing
The father of a woman who was killed by a teenager in Salamanca told state officials last night that closing youth detention facilities in Limestone and Great Valley is a bad idea.
Jerry Lockwood told the crowd at a public forum that 15-year-old Edward Kindt fell through the cracks of the system when he wasn't sent to a residential facility to get services before he killed Lockwood's daughter, Penny Brown.
Cattaraugus County Undersheriff Timothy Whitcomb said the community failed both Kindt and Brown, and warned that something like that could happen again if youth detention facilities are closed.
Governor David Paterson has proposed closing the facilities as a cost-cutting measure.
Jerry Lockwood told the crowd at a public forum that 15-year-old Edward Kindt fell through the cracks of the system when he wasn't sent to a residential facility to get services before he killed Lockwood's daughter, Penny Brown.
Cattaraugus County Undersheriff Timothy Whitcomb said the community failed both Kindt and Brown, and warned that something like that could happen again if youth detention facilities are closed.
Governor David Paterson has proposed closing the facilities as a cost-cutting measure.
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