Wanick Damour
Substitute Teacher
G4S Youth Services
2008007939
CCC/IG#2008-03583
From: Elisa.Watson@djj.state.fl.us>
To: <cathycorry@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:23:00 -0400
Subject: FW: REQUEST CCC/IG#: Teacher charged with punching juvenile at Manatee
juvenile facility
Message-ID: <D7365BC575F74344893E44541A754A10057040B1@exchangenw.djj.state.fl.us>
Cathy,
Please see the information you requested below.
Thanks,
Elisa B. Watson, Public Information Officer
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
Office of the General Counsel
2737 Centerview Drive, Suite 3218
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3100
Direct: (850) 410-0307 Fax: (850) 921-4159
elisa.watson@djj.state.fl.us
"We know that all things work together for good."
-----Original Message-----
From: Herring, Lisa
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:18 PM
To: Watson, Elisa
Subject: RE: REQUEST CCC/IG#: Teacher charged with punching juvenile at Manatee
juvenile facility
2008-03583
-----Original Message-----
From: Watson, Elisa
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:10 PM
To: Herring, Lisa
Subject: FW: REQUEST CCC/IG#: Teacher charged with punching juvenile at Manatee
juvenile facility
Hi Lisa,
Please see the request below.
Thanks,
Elisa
-----Original Message-----
From: cathycorry@juno.com [mailto:cathycorry@juno.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:05 PM
To: Watson, Elisa
Subject: REQUEST CCC/IG#: Teacher charged with punching juvenile at Manatee
juvenile facility
Elisa,
Please provide to me the CCC/IG# for the recent alleged child abuse by teacher
Wanick Damour at a Manatee juvenile detention facility (per below Bradenton
Herald).
Cathy Corry - www.Justice4Kids.org
Bradenton.com | 06/12/2008 | Teacher charged with punching juvenile
06/12/08 Teacher charged with punching juvenile
By Robert Napper (rnapper@bradenton.com).
Bradenton Herald.
MANATEE --Authorities say a Manatee County School District substitute teacher
was arrested on a charge he punched a 15-year-old boy in the face inside a state
juvenile detention facility.
Manatee County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested Wanick Damour, 31, at his
Wimauma home Tuesday night on a charge of child abuse.
Damour was working as a substitute teacher at a Florida Department of Juvenile
Justice detention center near the Manatee County jail when he struck an inmate
in a drug treatment program there, according to DOJJ officials.
Another teacher and case worker told detectives they saw Damour punch the boy.
Surveillance video in the detention center also captured the beating that cut
the boy's lip, causing him to need two stitches, according to a sheriff's
report.
Damour told sheriff's detectives he hit the boy because he feared for his
safety.
He said "he has had nothing but trouble from the victim since he started working
at the facility in April of this year," the sheriff's report stated.
DOJJ spokesman Frank Panela said the state contracts with a security company,
G4S Youth Services, to operate and provide security at the detention center.
G4S spokesman Mike Powers said the company hires all of its teachers for its
programs but contracts with local school districts to provide substitute
teachers when needed.
"As far I know, we obtained him from the school board there," Powers said.
School officials Wednesday confirmed Damour was on the district's substitute
list.
Panela said Damour, who was being held in the Manatee County jail on $10,000
bond, has been removed from teaching at the program and would not be allowed
back into the facility.
DOJJ officials will also be conducting a full investigation into the incident,
Panela said.
"We don't tolerate this kind of behavior at all," he said.
Teacher charged with punching juvenile
Robert Napper (rnapper@bradenton.com).
Bradenton Herald.
2008007939 Arrest Inquiry - Manatee County Sheriff's Office Arrest Search: Wanick Damour
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