Cops: Kids at court-ordered school steal counselor's car and escape
Two students at a school for adjudicated delinquents stole their counselor's car keys early this morning and then stole his car, according to state police.
Cops: Kids at court-ordered school steal counselor's car and escape
Stephanie Farr
Two students at a school for adjudicated delinquents stole their counselor's car keys early this morning and then stole his car, according to state police.
Around 2:14 a.m., the two teens from Philadelphia, who were court-ordered to the Glen Mills School in Thornbury Township for unknown reasons, stole their counselor's car keys from his gym bag while he was doing bed checks, police said.
The teens then managed to escape the facility unnoticed, locate the counselor's 2003 gold Toyota Coralla and drive away in it, according to state police.
A state police spokeswoman did not immediately return a call for comment, nor did a representative of the Glen Mills School. At the time the state police press release was issued this morning, the juveniles remained on the loose.
According to the school's website, it is a residential school for 15-to-18-year-old boys who have been ordered there by the courts and it's is located on 800 acres in Delaware County.
Comments (31)
Lovely. Two rising stars showing their talents.— Roger Podacter
Comment removed.- Hopefully now the courts will charge them as adults and place them in a real prison where they belong.— dmangel
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- and some think this only happens in phila. they should charge them as adults and throw away the key.— etbarksdale
- why jail? why should I have to pay for them? if there is a god, these two shinning stars of the gene pool will wrap that corolla around a tree. In Darwin we trust!— dgsophilly
- It must have been the one-of-a-kind "Coralla" they were after.— stefek23
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- Liberal take: Its just "kids" being "kids"; It's the counselors fault for not keeping hid keys locked up and tempting the youths; This is what happens when you keep teens caged durning their formative years; Its society and all of our fault not the teens; Next time we should treat them with more compassion.
Conserative Take: If they act like an adult treat them like an adult.
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- westphillyguy - Sure you do and I am the Queen of England . . . . Your atrocious grammar and spelling says otherwise. In fact it screams that you are barely qualified to clean the bathrooms at McDonalds.
- On Wall Street and living in beautiful downtown West Philadelphia. Hmmmm.... — AnniesRose
- The greedy teachers are to blame.— Aldous
- Westphillyguy, were your "joy rides" before or after (not during) your stint in reform school? What no reform school? So there is a difference between you and these kids isn't there?— unbelieveable!
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- Living right behind the school and visiting it often, I can tell you this story is the exception. On the golf course, during football games and around the track while exercising I always get, "Hello,Sir!" and smiles from the students. This program turns so many lives around it is a shame to judge it on just two students who still don't get it. As a teacher at the Delco County Prison (G.W.Hill)teaching Decision Making skills to inmates, I see men who never has the chance to attend Glen Mills school and pay a severe price for their mistakes and inability to make good decisions. For every one bad incident at Glen Mills School, there are hundreds of stories of success. Do not judge the program on such a small sample. Come visit the campus, see what they are doing, meet some students and then judge. It is a beautiful campus and remove the students from environments that few of us could survive in. This is the last best chance for most of these kids, and the vast majority respond in a positive manner. It is a terrific program for those who would be lost, directionless and misguided without such places. Too bad these two kids don't realize what an opportunity they have been given. Probably see them at "The Hill" in a few years time. Maybe then we can get through to them.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" - Gandhi— KingDavid 
Oh, I get it. westphillyguy is talking about his "Second Life" character again.— Jame Gumb- wesyphillyguy...whats a master-degress? you are so full of it i can smell you all the way over here in center city...— mc62strat
- Many of the kids of our future generation are really like dust in the wind...what a waste!— cmuller2539
- Maybe Annette John-Hall will write a feel good article on the promising careers these two fine lads will have!— bearsfriend
- I have no idea why "greedy teachers are to blame." But it's pretty clear Aldous, that with your line of thinking, the school system failed you. Teachers are employed to teach, not to show your kids and mine how to act in a civilized manner. That's a parent's job.— palmer1619
- Where are the parents? The only way to end juvenile crime is to sentence the parents as accessories to their kids' crimes. Do this, and they will be forced to discipline their kids the way they should have done all along.— DonQ
- Chances are there's only one "parent". That's a big part of the reason these boys are where they are. — bford823
- It doesn't seem right that the words gold and Corolla are used in the same sentence.— dontavoidtheobvious
- They wanted the AMC Pacer but the Corolla keys were all they could find.— dontavoidtheobvious
- Why can't they just go hiking in Iran and then everyone would feel sorry for them?— teckie
- jjstudent, Maybe you should step forward, adopt these dear children & show them some compassion...They are afterall, just "kids being kids."— ptahan
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- It seems to me that these two need more than a juvenile facility. I don't think that PRISON is answer but I am sure that if they are juveniles that they need to go into a juvenile detention center and bypass Glen Mills totally.
Yes, the counselor should have had the keys with him but if they had been working with the system that put them there they wouldn't have taken off in the first place. Glen Mills has a great reputation for working with troubled youth and a DARNED good sports reputation!— AnniesRose - seeing how I am employed at a youth detention center. I know that some youths are placed there by the courts because their parents are unfit, have abandoned them or even worse the one parent in their life had passed away. The courts will place them there until they are 18 most of the time. Than off to an independent living program when a bed opens. And I have seen more kids run away, or attempt to flee. These kids were not killers or thugs,but scared kids.A weak staff will turn and look the other way. And allow the alfa male of the unit, and anyone in his circle,to take other youths clothes,food, mail anything. Also allow other youths to attack the weaker youths. Anything to make the work day smooth the weak staff will turn his head.This would make you all run, most of you even as grown men today. Now the article said nothing about why these kids were court ordered there. But because they stole a car they should be killed? Let the punishment fit the crime. And no i am not defending these kids but we don't know the facts. ARE WE STILL BURNING WITCHES AT THE STAKE?— morganb09
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