Leaders of religious Alabama boot camp get 20 years in prison for child abuse (al.com)
By Prescotte Stokes III | pstokes@al.com
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on February 22, 2017 at 10:59 AM, updated February 22, 2017 at 7:47 PM
All three leaders of the religious Alabama boot camp Saving Youth Foundation for troubled teens were given 20 year prison sentences for their role in the child abuse incurred on children under their care.
Mobile Circuit Court Judge Charles Graddick issued the sentences in front of a filled to capacity courtroom on Wednesday morning.
The leader of the church, Pastor John David Young, 55, received a 20 year sentence to be served concurrently for each of the five counts of aggravated child abuse he faced.
The other school leaders, boys' instructor William Knott, 48, and girls' instructor Aleshia Moffett, 42, both received 20 year sentences to be served concurrently for each of the three counts of aggravated child abuse imposed by state prosecutors.
Assistant District Attorney Keith Blackwood recommended a 20 year sentence before Judge Graddick gave his ruling. He said that he feels justice has been served for the teens whose lives were forever changed by the treatment at the church.
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I always feel like this guy, typing that:
Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is reversing the federal policy from the Obama administration that was supposed to phase out incarcerating federal offenders in private prisons. So we can all look forward to Saving Youth Foundation depradations writ large among an adult prison population. Won't that be nice?
