Unable to supervise wayward child, city agency requests child be transferred to state facility
A request by a New York City agency that an at-risk teen, who has repeatedly run away from Brooklyn group homes, be transferred to a more secured facility has been granted.
Tilar M, a juvenile delinquent who has been diagnosed with ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder, was placed in custody of the New York City Administration for Children Services (ACS). ACS, charged with protecting the city’s youth, partnered with the New York Foundling charity and placed Tilar M., in a non-secure facility to be housed and supervised. Tilar M., escaped from the facility and was arrested after being AWOL for 14 days.
After his arrest, and at the request of his mother, Tilar M was placed in Boys Town, a non-secure housing facility on 6th Avenue in Park Slope. Having left Boys Town without permission, Tilar M. was again placed in another non-secure group in Park Slope — this time the Boys Town Close to Home Initiative.