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| Youths sneak past sleeping YDC worker |
| By Union Leader |
| Published: 05/24/2004 |
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Two New Hampshire youths were able to buzz themselves out of the Manchester Youth Development Center Easter morning and make their escape because secured doors were left unlocked and an employee was sleeping on the job. Details of the Easter morning escape of two youths - whom state officials deemed dangerous to the public and themselves - were contained in documents requested by The Union Leader under the right-to-know law. The identities of the employees and teenagers were blacked out in the documents provided to the newspaper. State officials previously released the names and photographs of the two teenagers: Jose Santana, 16, and Xavier Correa, 15, both of Manchester. Family members later took the boys back to the detention facility. The youths' identities were revealed because state officials believed the teenagers could be a danger and because both were believed to have access to firearms, said Rod Forey, director of the Division of Juvenile Justice Services (DJJS). The youths were committed to the YDC by a Manchester District Court judge who found they had received stolen guns which were never recovered, according to an April 12 memo Forey sent to John A. Stephen, commissioner of the state Department of Health and Human Services. Forey said both employees, whose names he would not release, were "absolutely" disciplined. He would not reveal what discipline was meted out because, he said, it involved personnel issues. Both are still YDC employees, he said. Since the escape, Forey said DJJS has worked with the Manchester Police Department and other law enforcement agencies to correct the breaches. |
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