APNewsBreak: State report finds Ohio juvenile prison guard ignored teen’s suicide attempt
By Andrew Welsh-huggins, APSaturday, January 16, 2010
APNewsBreak: Ohio: Teen’s suicide attempt ignored
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio youth prison guard has been fired and two others disciplined after a teen offender’s attempt to hang himself in a juvenile detention cell was ignored.
A state investigative report obtained by The Associated Press says the guard saw the youth with a blanket around his neck, noted the suicide attempt on a log and walked away without intervening.
The report says two other guards who were later suspended knew the youth may have been attempting to try to kill himself but failed to check on the teen, who survived.
The state fired juvenile prison guard Larin Feuerbacher (LARE’-ahn FOY’-er-bach-er) on Thursday for failing to act when he saw the suicide attempt Nov. 1 at Indian River Correctional Facility in Massillon in northeast Ohio.
