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Dakota was just 15-years-old when he was placed into the Tulsa Boys Home by DHS. He s overcome abuse of every kind,” said Lesley Hemphill. “Neglect, years and years and years of trauma. There was a tragedy that resulted in him being removed from the home right before his 13th birthday.”
Hemphill was assigned to be Dakota’s mentor at the Tulsa Boys’ Home.
“At the Tulsa Boys’ Home a mentor is like the greatest gift you can be given and for many of them this is the first person not required to be a part of your life.
Hemphill is one of more than 300 from Life.Church who volunteer at the Boys’ Home. These volunteers offer help with homework, give life advice, laughs, and moments of healing, a focus on hope. For Hemphill, the connection she shared with Dakota was instant.
WCCB Charlotte s CW
June 10, 2021
MONROE, N.C. A Monroe high school teacher was arrested and charged after he was accused of indecent liberties with a student.
The investigation was initiated on May 25 by the Monroe Police Department after they received information about a teacher at Central Academy of Technology and Arts (CATA) engaging in inappropriate behavior with a student.
Police said after an investigation, 35-year-old Cory McDowell, an English teacher at CATA, was charged and arrested on June 9 for indecent liberties by a teacher with a student.
McDowell later went before the magistrate and received a secured bond.
The Monroe Police Department say they are working closely with the Union Public Schools as the investigation continues.
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Editor s note: The following may include first-person accounts of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that contain graphic depictions and antiquated racial terminology. We have chosen not to edit these survivor accounts to leave their stories unencumbered by interpretation or exclusion.
That’s what Oklahoma state Sen. Kevin Matthews thought as he watched a VHS film, given to him by his great-uncle, depicting a white mob destroying Tulsa’s Greenwood District.
Matthews, 61, was in his 30s at the time. He had grown up in Tulsa and graduated from Tulsa Public Schools.
But, he had never heard this story before.
“I watched it, and I thought it was a fictional movie,” Matthews said. “I couldn’t stop looking at it. It was shocking to me. I couldn’t understand how I could get to be an adult and not know this story.”