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Escaped Mentally Ill Teens Concern Officials
By argusleader.com
Published: 12/06/2010

SPRINGFIELD - People in position to know - the police chief, the sheriff, the state's attorney - all agree about the shadow of terror that moved across Springfield almost eight weeks ago.

Their collective shudder comes out of an incident Oct. 12 when seven youth from Springfield Academy - a privately run psychiatric residential treatment facility - walked away from the academy, used a shovel to break into a vacant residence in town and were trying to load a rifle they found there when the home's owner walked in.

"It could have been very serious," Bon Homme County State's Attorney Lisa Rothschadl says.

If the young man sitting cross-legged on the living room floor had succeeded in loading the .30-06 rifle, "I don't think they would have held back," said Clay Barham, the homeowner. "I think these kids had violence in mind when they came in."

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