More than a dozen girls find themselves in limbo after their foster care center lost its contract with Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services.
“We are going to find other places for them within 30 days,” said Kelli Clark, president and co-founder of the Downing Clark Center in Adairsville, Ga., about seven miles from Calhoun.
“We have some girls that will be difficult to place elsewhere, but we are going to do our very best to work with (the Division of Family and Children Services) to find a place for them,” she said.
The children are being removed after a Jan. 4 incident in which one of the girls made a prank call to 911 and a riot erupted when Gordon County Sheriff’s deputies arrived, Mrs. Clark said. Twenty girls were arrested, she said.
In a news release, Gordon County Sheriff Mitch Ralston said deputies responding to the call “found the resident juveniles and young adults out of control, divided into opposing groups, and displaying hostility toward the few staff members on site as well as the officers.”