DINWIDDIE COUNTY, Va. — Antoine Robinson Sr. thought he was getting his son the help he needed. Instead, he says his 15-year-old escaped a Goochland psychiatric facility and made it all the way to Virginia Beach.
Dinwiddie Social Services referred Antoine Robinson Jr. to Hallmark Youthcare, an adolescent psychiatric residential treatment center in Goochland, in March, after records show Robinson Jr. got in fights at school, destroyed a neighbor’s property and threatened his father.
Robinson Sr. was out of ideas. The single father works full-time driving buses and felt he did not have the time or resources to get his son the help he needed to cope with childhood trauma and mental health issues. Hallmark was also completely free to him — Medicaid and Dinwiddie Social Services covered the cost…