3 Pregnant Teens Break Out Of Group Home

(AP)  Three pregnant teens living in a group home whacked the director in the head with a frying pan, tied her up and then fled the scene in a stolen minivan, police said.

The director, who was tied up with power cords Tuesday, eventually broke free and called police, American Fork police Sgt. Shaun Greening said. She also freed another pregnant teen tied up in the attack, he said.

Authorities believed the teens — two 15-year-olds and one 16-year-old — left the state and a search was under way. Police said the teens also stole the director's purse, checkbook, credit cards, cell phone and video camera.

The motive wasn't clear. Parents of the girls, who are from California, Texas and Illinois, were notified, police said.

The home, a place for struggling pregnant teens, is in Utah County, about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. Pregnant teens are typically sent there by parents to get away from problems with drugs or boyfriends. They attend class and learn about prenatal care, childbirth and adoption while staying at the home, according to police.

[gypc29]

bwah! I choked on my soda when I read this article. no wonder our U S of A is so screwed up if we still have these homes for wayward teenage girls.

[bethyale]

Well I agree with a lot of viewpoints here- these children are the parent's problem first and foremost, but I do understand the need for professional(AND SECURE)facilities for extremely out of control teens- notably females. I was unbelievably out of control as a 16 year old- and deviously resourceful too, which is really scary. I was put in a facility for troubled teens, because I stole $2000 from my father's safe and ran away. Thank God I wasn't killed- I bragged about the cash to every low life I ran into.
I think these girls should be encouraged by their families to keep their children if they are deemed fit, and if they want them. Otherwise proper homes should be implemented, to hell with the mother's "rights". I know I wasn't capable of making good decisions at the age of 16- and it's GLARINGLY obvious these three girls cannot either.
I also blame wishy washy parenting for a lot of today's problems with kids. I see parents asking toddlers to "please" stop doing something they shouldn't be doing fifty times, in these pleading pathetic voices. Parents allow themselves to be suckered constantly by their own children! "No" these days means "Do it anyway." Kids don't take adults seriously, thus the whacking over the head with a frying pan incident. Kids know how to completely manipulate to get what they want, and they learn how to do it at home.

[badmikey1]

These young women did not break out, they were not in prison. Although there methods were wrong we need to know why these young women felt the need to leave this group home. Also why such a home exists in this day and age. There need to be more local options for pregnant young women near their hometowns. Teens are no longer children and we have to start listening to what they have to say to prevent things such as this from happening.

[tammyecm7333]

Not to infer that whatever reasons these girls had for doing what they did were not valid, the choice they made to attack and rob the director was wrong! Whatever problems they felt they had just increased tenfold and if they couldn't handle a group home imagine the next few years in a juvenile detention. Two wrongs do not make a right!

[liz19792006]

You know what first of all I was 17yrs old and my Mother and Father sent me to a group home like this in chattanooga , Tenn and they ppl that do run these places are Preverts both men and women...And another thing these places push on you to give your child up for adoption and NO its not right...Another thing I ran away from the group home that I was in ..and I am doing great I kept my child who is now 8yrs old 1 of the smartest kids in his class...These girls are still kids if you want them to be better than you where then work with them help them..Instead of sending them away and letting someone else deal with your problem because all these ppl are doing is making it worse for them and teaching them that it is okay to give up....it pisses me off that these parents praise there self so much on being such good parents..(Well if your such good parents then where the *ell is you kid) I am sorry but thats just my opion.....

[agnim]

"Teenagers Whack Director With Frying Pan, Tie Her Up, Steal Her Purse And Flee In Stolen Minivan"

LOL

That is truly funneeee. LMAO

[lisamort]

Most places that house any child are highly regulated. The staff have background checks and are checked and rechecked by every regulatory agency that is in that state. The director is a women. If she was a prevert why would the girls have to tie up the other pregnant girl. These girls are BRATS. They have been spoiled. And they belong in jail.

[bildooreilly]

The people that run these kinds of places are usually perverts, that's WHY they're running them in the first place... come on what would you think if I Bildo Oreilly opened up a group home for wayward pregnant teenage girls lol... Run girls Run.....

[sharncedar]

"them alone and respect and support their decision"

Well, like most dumb girls, you want the world both ways. You want to be "left alone" when it comes to dumb decisions and doing things for your own selfish reasons that are illogical and destructive, but you need millions of dollars of support and infrastructure just to eat breakfast in the morning.

This, the dumb wasteful girl of America, is a luxury we just can't afford.

Children are the mutual property and responsibility of the entire society; they are a cost and a burden to everyone in the community. You have burdened 100's of people, hundreds more toil in fields and factories, hundreds more dying in Iraq, all for the child you have so

[linfinster]

Find em, catch em, prosecute them and give the babies to people who are intelligent and cappable of being a good example.

I don't think the parents neccesarily did anything wrong, no one here really knows. I doubt that place in Utah was cheap. Sounds like they had good intentions. No one really knows what that place is like. But we DO know those girls HIT that woman with a pan, tied up another pregnant teen and took off like the idiots they are. They'll probably get a slap on the hand and a welfare check.