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Report Details Youth Center Patient's Death

Doctor Says Teen's Injuries 'Traumatic'

POSTED: 4:42 pm CDT July 9, 2007
UPDATED: 7:30 pm CDT July 9, 2007

As time passes, more information is being learned about the second death at the Chad Youth Development Center.

Video: Chad Youth Center Death Detailed In Report

The identities of two men who were holding down 17-year-old Omega Leach in the moments before his death were revealed Monday.

Leach died after two staff members at Chad placed him on the floor because he was unruly, according to a Montgomery County report.

The report said that the two men, 31-year-old Milton Gerald Francis and 22-year-old Randall Dale Rae Jr., asked Leach if he was going to stop resisting.

The report said that Leach didn't answer because he was unconscious. Leach was later pronounced dead.

Francis is listed as a former sergeant at Fort Campbell.

Children who've been at Chad have told Channel 4 News that staff members would slam them on the floor or wall with their arms pinned behind their backs.

Edith Ruland took her 10-year-old out of Chad after finding him covered in bruises and personally witnessing staffers pin a child to the lunchroom floor for getting out of the food line.

"I saw one boy, he was yelling, ‘I can't breathe,’” she said.

The Tennessee Department of Health inspected Chad 10 days after Leach's death.

Its report concluded that the staff's restraint techniques resulted in death.

The doctor who treated Leach at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital described Leach's injuries as traumatic.

The doctor said the injuries included internal injuries and swelling to the brain.

The medical examiner's full report isn't finished yet.

Employees at Chad are supposed to be trained for how to properly restrain unruly children.

But Health Department inspectors found that in some cases, there was "no evidence" staffers took the training.


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