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The onetime dean of a controversial Baptist boarding school is accused of arranging for a minor to be transported—in handcuffs and against his will—from his home state of California to the Missouri compound for troubled teen boys.
Prosecutors say the child had a domestic violence restraining order against his mother, who enlisted the reform school administrator to orchestrate the allegedly illegal pickup.
According to an indictment unsealed Tuesday, Agapé Boarding School’s former dean of students Julio Sandoval sent a “transport” team to grab the minor from a business in Fresno, confiscate his cellphone, and drive him 27 hours nonstop to Stockton, Missouri—hands fully manacled behind his back the entire time.
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