To fix the problem, DCS required Pierceton Woods to revise its reporting policy to better align with Indiana’s mandatory reporting law, which requires abuse to be reported to DCS or law ...

An employee at the Indiana Department of Child Services tipped ... who was a DCS residential licensing specialist, provided Pierceton Woods Academy with the date of an upcoming unannounced visit.

The case involves a former housing unit supervisor at Pierceton Woods Academy, a northern Indiana residential facility for troubled boys. The criminal charge represents at least the third time ...

His family has not seen or heard from him since. Chaffins lives in Pierceton, Indiana, and is 5’8”, 140 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Police are requesting the public contact the ...

Officers from Winona Lake, Warsaw and Pierceton Police Departments as well as Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department and Indiana State Police assisted in the investigation.

To fix the problem, DCS required Pierceton Woods to revise its reporting policy to better align with Indiana’s mandatory reporting law, which requires abuse to be reported to DCS or law ...