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Lawyers have been given permission to proceed with a court case launched on behalf of a five-year-old boy who it was claimed had been denied legal protection through a failure to fund independent court representation for him. Martha Dismont, for the ...

At 13, he thought he was going to Disney World — but instead was flown overseas for a year in therapy. At 15, he should have been in a children’s home — but was “jailed” for months at the Co-Ed in St George’s despite never being convicted of a crime....

A young woman who spent more than a year in a Utah residential institution said the experience was a good influence on her life. The 27-year-old revealed that she enjoyed theatre and rafting trips as part of her time at Moonridge Academy in Utah when...

The assistant director of the Department of Child and Family Services is to stand trial over allegations she assaulted a teenage girl who refused to board a flight to the United States. Kennette Robinson, 51, was charged last Thursday in Magistrates’...

Bermuda likes to call itself “another world”, but it isn’t, really. The social problems that blight less balmy and picturesque places blight this island too, albeit on a much smaller scale. The question of what to do when families are fractured, when...

A 49-year-old mother said youngsters sent for treatment overseas returned to Bermuda “traumatised”. She explained that two of her children spent time in US institutions when they were teenagers and her daughter claimed she was sexually abused by a co...