ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WSPA) — The parent company of a residential treatment school just outside of Asheville has been fined $30,000 after two students took their own lives.
Asheville Academy announced June 3 that it released all of its students from its Weaverville campus this past weekend, saying the decision to voluntarily close was difficult.
The closing came a few days after North Carolina mental health officials ordered the academy to stop taking in new students until the school could show it was protecting girls from harm, abuse and neglect and was properly supervising employees…