The juvenile died during the night hours, in the bedroom where two quarantined boys had been
staying for three days. The incident report drawn up by the non-public JEC states that at 20.00 hrs. the
educator started his night shift. The day preceding the incident was quiet, without any incidents. At that
time, the quarantine group consisted of five juveniles. After the bath at about 21.00 hrs., all juveniles
went to their rooms which they were not permitted to leave at night. Throughout the night, the educator
was present in the facility and, according to the then-practised procedure, remotely supervised the
juveniles from the quarantine groups. He did not enter the bedrooms but looked into them several times
through the window in the door to check if everything was all right. He spent the rest of his shift in the
educators’ room (located 2 meters from the juveniles’ room). According to the educator’s report, he did
not notice anything alarming. He did not hear any disturbing noises or signals from the juveniles, and
nothing unusual attracted his attention. On the following morning at 8, a new shift started and a new
educator arrived. By 10.30am he had checked each bedroom several times looking through the window
in the door, but the juveniles were asleep. At about 10.40 one of the juveniles knocked on the door, went
to the toilet, and then took the breakfast from the kitchenette for himself and his roommate. After about
5 minutes, when the educator entered the bedroom to measure the temperature, the juvenile informed
that his roommate was probably dead. After an attempt to check the heart rate and breathing (the boy
did not show any signs of life), the educator immediately notified the director of the JEC who called an
ambulance and the police. The ambulance doctor who arrived to the JEC confirmed that the juvenile
was dead. The police secured the place and called a prosecutor. The juvenile’s parents were also notified.
According to the preliminary opinion of medical experts, the boy had a piece of toilet paper in his mouth
(he had a runny nose and kept some toilet paper in the bedroom). Two weeks later, the other juvenile
who slept in the same bedroom admitted that he killed his roommate. On the same day, the police
detained him and placed him in a shelter for juveniles. The circumstances and the course of the incident
are being investigated by the District Prosecutor's Office in Łańcut.
Immediately after the incident, the practice of night-time supervision over the juveniles was
changed, as mentioned in the earlier part of this report297. Actions to support the other juveniles has also
been undertaken in the centre. They mainly consisted in individual and group meetings with a
psychologist and an educator, aimed at reducing psychological tension. Moreover, the juveniles were
permitted to contact their parents by telephone at any time. The psychological aid team also conducted
telephone conversations with the parents of the juveniles from the group of which the dead juvenile had
been a member, in order to dispel the parent’s fears and doubts regarding the safety of their children in
the facility.
At present, staff members are required to enter the juveniles’ rooms at night (every half hour between 10.00
p.m. and 1.00 a.m., and every hour between 1.00 a.m. and 6.00 a.m.) with a torch to check their condition. The
director of the centre has also introduced the requirement to keep the Bedrooms monitoring logbook, in which the
dates and hours of the monitoring are recorded. The entries are verified against the CCTV recordings.
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