Meeting to Address Abuse of Youth in Residential Placements
“If you walked in part way through my presentation, you might have assumed that I was talking about human rights violations in a third world country.  Unfortunately, these human rights violations occurred right here in the United States of America.”  So testified Greg Kutz, Managing Director of Forensic and Special Investigations for the Government Accountability Office, in testimony presented in October, 2007, at a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor on youth who have died in residential placements that presented themselves to parents as being therapeutic