Clearwater mental health facility worker charged with choking a child
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St. Petersburg Times
By Dominick Tao
CLEARWATER—An employee of a secure mental health facility for minors was arrested Saturday after being accused of choking a patient.
Jimothy Tyrone Jamison, who works at the state-contracted Gulf and Lake Academy at 14500 49th St. N, was charged with child abuse after police say he put his arm around the neck of a minor and then brought him to the ground. Police did not release the identity of the minor.
Jamison told police he was only engaging in “horseplay.” In a police interview, the minor said that wasn’t the case: The “victim said he couldn’t breathe and told (Jamison) to stop three times.”
Police say the incident took place May 12.
Calls to the facility, operated under contract by G4S Youth Services, a subsidiary of United Kingdom-based security firm G4S, were referred to the company’s Tampa office, which was closed for the weekend.
According to the academy’s website, “The program provides intensive mental health services, special needs mental health services, social and life skills” to troubled teens aged 12 to 18.
Jamison was in the Pinellas County Jail on $5,000 bail.
http://www.psychsearch.net/psych_news/?p=624
By Dominick Tao
CLEARWATER—An employee of a secure mental health facility for minors was arrested Saturday after being accused of choking a patient.
Jimothy Tyrone Jamison, who works at the state-contracted Gulf and Lake Academy at 14500 49th St. N, was charged with child abuse after police say he put his arm around the neck of a minor and then brought him to the ground. Police did not release the identity of the minor.
Jamison told police he was only engaging in “horseplay.” In a police interview, the minor said that wasn’t the case: The “victim said he couldn’t breathe and told (Jamison) to stop three times.”
Police say the incident took place May 12.
Calls to the facility, operated under contract by G4S Youth Services, a subsidiary of United Kingdom-based security firm G4S, were referred to the company’s Tampa office, which was closed for the weekend.
According to the academy’s website, “The program provides intensive mental health services, special needs mental health services, social and life skills” to troubled teens aged 12 to 18.
Jamison was in the Pinellas County Jail on $5,000 bail.
http://www.psychsearch.net/psych_news/?p=624
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