# @thekansascitystar on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CiFfFIZqdvP
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19115763-thekansascitystar-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-09-04T13:00:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kansas City Star (@thekansascitystar) — https://gondola.cc/thekansascitystar

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❗ Content warning: This story and post discuss threats of violence against minors.
 
Julio Sandoval tells parents he wants to help their wayward sons get on the right path. 
 
He assures them, through the website for his transport business, that he will deliver their children safely to a boarding school. So parents hire Sandoval’s company – Safe Sound Secure Youth Ministries – to remove their so-called “troubled teens” from their homes and transport them to the schools. 
 
Sandoval also is former dean of students at Agape Boarding School and current leader of another unlicensed facility, both in Missouri.
 
Now, Sandoval, 41, awaits his next court appearance, arrested this week after a federal grand jury indicted him for violating a restraining order — issued at the request of a minor boy against his mother — by transporting him against his will to Agape in southwest Missouri. The jury also indicted the estranged mom of the teen, who was dropped off at Agape last summer after a 27-hour drive from California, the indictment says, his hands cuffed behind his back the entire way. 
 
The arrests underscore concerns many have with transport companies whose agents often show up at homes in the middle of the night — with the parents’ consent — dragging scared youth out of bed, sometimes restraining them with handcuffs and threatening physical force if they don’t comply. They then cart them off to boarding schools across the country, including in Missouri.
 
Read more at the link in our bio. ✏️ Judy L. Thomas and Laura Bauer
 
#BoardingSchools #Missouri #TeenTransport

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missouri, boardingschools, teentransport

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