Abuse allegations haunt lucrative group homes - Charleston Post Courier
BELTON — The bucolic countryside surrounding Boys Home of the South belies the horror some children say they endured after state Social Services officials dumped them here. Even as state agencies gave the group home as much as $1. 5 million a year, the Department of Social Services investigated the facility three dozen times for abuse and neglect allegations since 2000. The state won't reveal the outcome of these... A high-profile child sex abuse lawsuit forced this group home to close last year — the campus has since reopened as a Christian campground. Roe, now 23, asked that The Post and Courier conceal his real name by using the pseudonym he chose for a lawsuit filed last year against the group home and the Department of Social Services. The lawsuit that finally shut down Boys Home of the South made national news , but this was far from the only residential group home in South Carolina to profit handsomely off taxpayer dollars while the child welfare agency investigated the... New Hope Carolinas, which operates a psychiatric treatment facility in Rock Hill, has been investigated for child abuse and neglect 119 times since 2000. Six other group homes and institutions have been investigated by Social Services at least 80... Source: www.postandcourier.com
