Police describe widespread eye-poking, fingers twisted until breaking, lacerations from slamming heads and throwing, bone-breaking punches, pinching, cutting, and other injuries, much of it done while the victims were held in restraints. So far, 16 former Eagleton School employees face criminal charges.
“Over the past three months, there appears to have been a conscious decision by Eagleton’s administration not to report the scope and extent of residents’ injuries to the EEC and other state agencies to avoid investigation.”
— Department of Early Education and Care report on abuses of students at Eagleton School
Eagleton “is really the last stop” for boys and young men who have been through a number of other settings that didn’t work.
— Eric MacLeish, attorney for Eagleton School
In his letter to the editor, Luke Pryjma writes: “Eagleton is a place where our society puts its trauma. We hope it is a place where that trauma can find peace and release gently. That is not always the case.”
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