Voicemail:
303-444-1383.
NewsRelease for Teen Vigil at Marymount:
TEEN KIDNAPPED FROM NYC SCHOOL
Should teens have the right to be free of the fear of abduction in their
own home? Do they have the right to be free of the fear of kidnap from
school?
On April 24th, a teenage girl was dragged, screaming in terror from
Marymount Manhattan College by three men and a woman. She was dragged
down the steps toward a black sedan with dark tinted windows that
obscured a view of the inside. Still screaming, she tried to call for
help from people passing on the street.
People, startled by this violence, stopped to watch but no one tried to
help the teen. As a crowd gathered, the girl was pulled toward the car,
then tried to hold onto the top of the car as the three men and the
woman pushed her into the back seat. Her screams brought neighbors on
this upper east side street to their windows. One was a reporter for a
large newspaper who ran down to try and help her.
Several friends of the girl, standing to the side of the crowd were
weeping. When the reporter, aghast, tried to find out what was happening he was told by the crying teens that it was "an intervention."
He called it an abduction. A police officer who appeared as the young
girl was forcefully shoved into the car, stood to the side watching as
the door slammed shut and the car sped off. The reporter took down the
license number, tracked down the abductors -- an "escort" service -and
traced the girl to a behavior modification facility called The Family,
in upstate New York.
An American GULAG, Boarding Schools from Hell,
describes a fast-rising parent-funded private prison system for teens.
To help protect the civil and human rights of teens, and help reform
this unregulated industry of violent "behavior modification," Ms Parks
founded TeenAid.
At noon, on Friday, June 19th TeenAid’s founder Alexia Parks will help
mark the site of the teen abduction at Marymount and discuss the Right
of Teens to be free of the fear of kidnap. Ms Parks will be joined by
Daniel Jeffreys, contributing editor for *Marie Claire* magazine and
U.S. features correspondent for The London Times. Mr Jeffreys witnessed
the abduction. The press conference will also include Mr Herb Seiffert,
great uncle of David Van Blarigan (16). David’s abduction from his
Oakland, CA home in the middle of the night was described in a two-page
article in TIME magazine (1/26/98).
Other special guests include Sara Pursley who was recently featured in
on-line Salon Magazine. Salon described the work of Sara and Bennett
Haselton in posting web sites for An American GULAG and their discovery of anti-free-speech techniques used by Behavior Modification schools on
the Internet. Teens, including those who represent organizations that
support the TeenAid cause will also be present to talk with the news
media.
Marymount Manhattan College is located at 221 E. 71st St. NYC.
---------------------------
JOIN TEENAID
---------------------------
Membership in TeenAid is $25. New members will be sent an (unabridged)
copy of An American GULAG. The expose can be donated to a local middle
or high school. Contributions to support the activities of TeenAid can
be sent to The Education Exchange Network (T.E.E.N) Box K, Eldorado
Springs, CO 80025.
Want to join? Want to receive our next newsletter?
303-444-1383 -- Alexia Parks, author of An American GULAG, is executive director of T.E.E.N., a tax-exempt,
non-profit organization.
*******
Teen-Justice promotes the reform of "behavior modification" facilities
and schools that abuse the civil and human rights of teens. This
newsletter links experts, the media, and interested members of the
public who are interested in this issue. Please forward it to your list
or post in relevant newsgroups.