Cynthia King, Lazarita Menendez and Ebony Ray - Cleveland, OH

A jury on Tuesday acquitted three former employees of an Ohio treatment center for troubled teens of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a 17-year-old girl who suffocated and choked on her own vomit after being restrained facedown on the floor.


Menendez faced additional charges because she initiated the incident by taking Finley's CD player, which the disruptive 17-year-old used to calm herself, and shoved the girl's hand under her as she lay on the floor, prosecutors said.

The type of restraint prosecutors say the women used was later banned by Gov. Ted Strickland at the recommendation of state agencies that said the technique carries a high risk of serious injury or death.

Ray, of Broadview Heights, and Menendez, of Bedford Heights, were accused of wrestling Finley to the ground on her chest and applying pressure to her back — a technique known as prone restraint — while King watched.
 
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=9789276

Randall Rae - Ashland City, TN

The confrontation with Rae began a month later when Leach refused to leave his room, according to court documents filed by the plaintiff.


Rae pushed Leach into the hallway, threw him to the ground, and began choking him, according to the documents.

The staffer then forced Leach back into his room, where eyewitnesses reported that he slammed Leach's head into a wall and pinned him facedown on the floor for seven minutes. A nurse who entered the room noticed that Leach was not breathing and did not have a pulse, according to the plaintiff's documents. Leach died the next day at a hospital.

http://nospank.net/n-s84.htm