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Show 1 foi StiFvivsil Program Leaders J Cry 'Outrage1 At Charges l Charges filed by the state of Utah against the Challenger Foundation, Foun-dation, operating a survival program pro-gram in the Escalante area for troubled trou-bled youth, has brought cries of outrage from the company's president presi-dent and generated media interest statewide. On the basis of information supplied by Family Life Services. charges have been filed in Garfield County against the company citing child abuse, a class A misdemeanor. Additional charges of tampering with a witness, a third degree I . , ' ' ' " "" ' ! ' '' w ; t.-r.f , ' , 4 , '"' 1 , ' ' ' '''' ' ' ' J f ' ' 'y , ' ' i ? ' I a ' " f : ' u,, ; j f - , Z". ' " ' .'' v." J ' ' u '." ' , ' I4 ; - ' ,' u i 1 '. 1 t I - - - -t . , , ? ' ' ' ,'"':, ' 7 f i 'i ' r' ' , ' , J ' '- ; . " - ,.,, " 1 ' I '' , -, , ! Armeda Farnsworth admires Daughters of Utah Pioneers marker mounted on the porch . wall at the DUP museum. The museum was dedicated in special ceremonies Friday, honoring the history of the old LDS tithing lot in Panguitch. . . . felony, have also been filed. ;ne Garfield County Attorney Patrick Nolan declined to discusaug the case because of its sensitive na1 ture involving a juvenile acknow fric ledging only that the state had file charges. Since names of employee cry of the company involved in the algs leged incident were unavailable exptj0 cept for nicknames at the time thf ijjc charges were filed, only the compa ' ny's name was listed. J Challenger Foundation, a New Jersey-based company, has its of fices in Mapleton where papen8r were served. Challenger president001 Stephen Cartisano said Monday thalV v the three-year-old company hadPC( conducted its field operations in thej Escalante area for the past 18. Ai months. clf Charging that the allegations are,ar "legislatively and politically motivated," moti-vated," Cartisano said the state has, been trying to license his company jr under statutes applying to boarding schools. Currently, he said, thef company is licensed only under a.:-standard a.:-standard business license. He claims that the state has no appropriate li-censing li-censing regulations at this time thatr; could appropriately be applied toj Challenger Foundation. t r- |
