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S P E C I A L R E P O R T : C H I L D H O O D B E T R AY E D
Snag in
Senate
‘WE JUST DECIDED TO RUN’ delays
Girls who walked away from group homes ended up tax plan
with man who committed sex crimes with one of them passage
House must re-vote
on bill today because
Democrats noted some
provisions violated
Senate rules
By Stephen Ohlemacher
and Marcy Gordon
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Jubi-
lant Republicans pushed on
Tuesday to the verge of the
most sweeping rewrite of
the nation’s tax laws in more
than three decades, a deeply
unpopular bill
they insist
Americans
will learn to
love when
they see their
paychecks
Trump in the new
year. Presi-
dent Donald Trump cheered
the lawmakers on, eager to
claim his first major legisla-
tive victory.
Perhaps emblematic of
the stumbles along the way,
there was one last hiccup.
Speaker Paul Ryan, who has
worked years toward the goal
of revamping the tax code,
Florida United Methodist Children’s Home, located in West Volusia, is one of three group homes a girl was able to walk away from to be gleefully pounded the gavel
with a man who committed sex crimes with her. [NEWS-JOURNAL/JIM TILLER] on the final House vote, but
then it turned out it wasn’t
final after all.
By Suzanne Hirt investigating for human trafficking, and About this project The Senate still expected to
suzanne.hirt@news-jrnl.com who had been the subject of numerous pass the legislation Tuesday
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complaints to area law enforcement. Daytona Beach News- night, but the plan to send
y the time she was16 and in Hannahtold the deputy assigned to Journal reporter Suzanne it on to Trump for his sig-
foster care, Hannah exhibited transport her to a foster facility that she Hirt spent months docu- nature had to be scrapped.
a combination of vulnerabili- had been depressed for weeks and would menting how underage Democrats noted that three
ties sexual predators exploit. be better off dead, according to a Volusia girls become victims provisions violated Senate
She was the child of a broken County Sheriff’s Office report. of sex crimes in Volu- rules and had to be removed.
home. Her single mother was charged with While in state custody, Hannah ran away sia County. She pored So the massive bill will be
food stamp fraud. The family bounced from three different group homes in Volu- over police records and hauled back across the Capi-
between Daytona Beach-area rentals and sia, Flagler and Polk counties to be with investigative documents, tol for the House to re-vote
the homes of friends. Two of her siblings Boland. He bought her drugs and alcohol interviewed sex crime on Wednesday.
were in prison. She was exposed to sexual and took her to motels to continue the victims and their family GOP House members
advances by older men at an early age. sexual relationship he initiated when she members, and attended roared and applauded as their
Sometimes those men lived under the same was 15, investigative reports state. court hearings. Among chamber passed the $1.5 tril-
roof. Eventually, Hannah started using Few obstacles stood in Hannah’s path. her findings: Preda- lion package largely along
drugs. When she wanted to leave a foster facility, tors are difficult for law party lines, 227-203. Ryan
In March 2015 the Florida Depart- she waited for nightfall and simply walked enforcement to bring to declared, “This was a prom-
ment of Children and Families removed out the door. justice, and solutions to ise made. This is a promise
Hannah from the home of Michael Boland, improve the system are
a man in his mid-60s whom the FBI was See RUN, A6 difficult to find. See TAX, A11
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CHILDHOOD BETRAYED
Brandy Sweat, now 19, ran away from Florida United Methodist Children’s Home in Denise LaPlaca, a housemate of Michael Boland in 2015, testified at his trial at S.
July 2015. She testified at Michael Boland’s October trial that Boland picked up her James Foxman Justice Center in Daytona Beach. LaPlaca said she accompanied Boland
and another runaway near the group home campus and took them to a motel. to Winter Haven in August 2015 to pick up three girls who had run away from their
[NEWS-JOURNAL/DAVID TUCKER] foster care facility.
CHILDHOOD BETRAYED
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