The News Observer made the request under a provision in state law that allows the release of such information if the integrity of the agency has been called into question.Juvenile justice officials have been on the defensive since the results of a federal sexual abuse survey were released this month.Nearly one third of the girls at Samarkand Youth Development Center in Eagle Springs said they had engaged in sex acts with adult staff members among the highest rates of selfreported sexual victimization among similar facilities across the country.State facilities in Kinston and near Asheville also had high rates of juveniles who reported being sexually assaulted by staff members, other youths, or both.In comments before a legislative committee last week, Hayes questioned the methodology used in the federal survey and said there is no evidence the children who claimed to have had sex with staff are telling the truth."We take the issue of youth maltreatment extremely seriously, and do not in any way lay blame to the juveniles that were in our facilities at the time of the study," Hayes said, reading from prepared remarks. "Our students come to us with high rates of sexual victimization and child abuse before coming into our care. They are highly sexualized, and they often show their confusion and inappropriate sexual behaviors as they work through our programs at the facilities."Youth development centers provide mentoring, educational programs and therapy for juveniles convicted of crimes.An employee investigated for having inappropriate physical contact with a female student in 2008 worked at Samarkand, the facility where a third of the 25 girls surveyed reported abuse.William Lassiter, spokesman for the department, said that employee admitted that a girl had touched his groin.
They should all be held responsible.""The kindergarten van was carrying seven times as many passengers as it should have been, which meant the kindergarten should have bought seven times as many vans," Liu said.The collision with the truck in China's Gansu province left the orange school bus a crumpled and twisted wreckage.Gao Shaobo, head of traffic police in Zhengning county, where the kindergarten is located, said that 20 people had died and 44 were still hospitalized two in critical condition and 12 with serious injuries.The impact of the crash drove the front of the minibus back into the seats, ripped open the top and buckled the sides of the vehicle, while the front of the truck was slightly damaged. Xinhua reported that the truck was loaded with coal, but Gao told state broadcaster CCTV that it was used to transport stones and was empty at the time of the accident.The bus was on its way to the Little Doctor Kindergarten on the outskirts of Qingyang city after picking up the children when the accident happened, Gao said. "The van was driving on the wrong side of the street.Related：
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