Tag: Bonaventure Boys Home
Children’s home revamped with help of community
(CNS): The Bonaventure Boys Home in West Bay, which is run by the CAYS Foundation, reopened this week after a multipurpose revamp, including making it wheelchair-accessible. The Cayman Islands Government donated $100,000 to the project from the Ministry of Social Development’s 2023 budget savings. The non-profit organisation was then able to generate additional financial and […]
Children’s homes to stretch CI$100k for upgrades
(CNS): The government has approved an additional CI$100,000 for the CAYS Foundation, a non-profit organisation that runs the Bonaventure Boys’ Home, the Frances Bodden Children’s Home and a secure facility for children on care and protection orders, Phoenix House. The money will be used for much-needed upgrades to the organisation’s IT network, additional housing facilities […]
CAYS managers revealed failings at boys home
(CNS): Staff employed by the CAYS Foundation, which runs the Bonaventure Boys Home in West Bay, revealed a number of shortcomings at the care facility when they gave evidence of behalf of the crown during the recent trial of Larry Levers and Michael Stewart. Both Levers and Stewart were acquitted Thursday of the manslaughter of […]
Care workers not guilty of killing teenage boy
(CNS): In an emotional moment in Grand Court on Thursday, Micheal Stewart (65) and Larry Levers (47) were acquitted of the manslaughter of 14-year-old Risco Batten, who drowned while on a fishing trip in 2015 while the men were carers at the Bonaventure Boys Home. It took a jury less than three hours to clear […]
Second carer’s evidence backs colleague
(CNS): A second former care home worker charged with the manslaughter of Risco Batten (14) echoed evidence given by his colleague when he took the stand Thursday. The teenager drowned more than four years ago during a tragic fishing trip at South Sound. Larry Levers (47), who worked with Micheal Stewart at the Bonaventure Boys […]
Care worker saw no risk on fateful fishing trip
(CNS): Micheal Stewart (65), a former care worker charged with manslaughter, told a jury he was devastated by the death of Risco Batten, a teenage boy who drowned on a fishing trip while being supervised by him and Larry Levers, a colleague from the Bonaventure Boys Home. As he gave his evidence, Stewart said he […]
Crown: Care home workers culpable for teen’s death
(CNS): Michael Stewart and Larry Levers were so “extraordinarily negligent” when they took a group of teenage boys from the Bonaventure Boys Home Home fishing in November 2015 that they are culpable for the death of 14-year-old Risco Batten, who drowned that day while in their care, the crown said as it opened the manslaughter […]
Man extradited from US charged with teen’s death
(CNS): A former supervisor at a local boys home who was extradited from the United States appeared in court Friday charged with manslaughter and child cruelty in connection with the death of 14-year-old Risco Batten, who drowned in South Sound in November 2015. Larry Levers (46) is one of two men charged in the case […]
Teenager dodges jail for serious attack
(CNS): A local boy who pleaded guilty to indecent assault and robbery following an attack on a woman in South Sound in August 2016, when he was just 15 years old, has dodged a jail sentence because he turned his life around after a period at the Bonaventure Home. Despite attacking a woman who was […]
Ex-care home worker faces extradition for manslaughter
(CNS): Two men have been charged with manslaughter and child cruelty in connection with the death of a teenage resident at the Bonaventure Boys Home. Risco Batten (14) drowned in South Sound in November 2015 during a fishing trip with the men, who were both supervisors at the home. One of the two men, Larry Levers […]
CAYS sounds alarm over troubled teens care
(CNS): The manager of the CAYS Foundation, which runs the Frances Bodden Children’s and Bonaventure Boys’ homes for troubled teenagers under care or court orders, has sounded the alarm over the continued lack of political commitment to the multitude of challenges some kids in Cayman are facing. From the horrific trauma of sexual abuse to […]
