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CHESTERFIELD COUNTY — A Horry County teen who spent several months at a juvenile residential counseling center was sexually abused by a staff member during his time there, according to a lawsuit filed Sept. 10 against the company.

The former staff member, Florence Garland White, 31, worked at the AMIKids Sand Hills location. She faces one charge by the Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office regarding her time there, and the case remains under investigation.

“Imagine sending your child to a program like this only to find out that, instead of being protected and empowered, he was being groomed, victimized and traumatized,” said attorney Anna Magann of McGowan, Hood, Felder and Phillips, the firm representing the 15-year-old boy’s family in the lawsuit against AMIKids. “White is a textbook predator, and AMIKids either knew what was going on or they should have.”

AMIKids is a Florida-based nonprofit 501(c)(3) youth rehabilitation program that has residential centers across the country, including nine in South Carolina. The state Department of Juvenile Justice contracts with AMIKids to send youthful offenders to its centers in lieu of incarceration.

Juvenile Justice officials referred the teen to AMIKids after his parents reported he stole his father’s work van in December.

Neither AMIKids nor White’s attorney, Melvin Cockrell, could be reached for comment.

The sheriff’s charge against White, filed June 30, was contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The Sheriff’s Office said White contacted the teen despite being instructed to avoid communicating with him after the investigation began, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The allegations in the family’s lawsuit go deeper, with allegations White and the teen met after hours while at AMIKids.

“(The teen) told his mother he regularly left his bed to visit Garland White, but the director said it only happened one time,” according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit states the teen moved into the Sand Hills center in January and would have stayed through July. In May, the teen’s probation officer discover inappropriate letters in his possession. Also that month, he was hospitalized for self-harm.

AMIKids was slow to respond to the concerns raised, Magann said.

The center released the teen from the program after his mother confronted the director, Magann said. White remained on staff until the sheriff’s investigation began, Magann said.

The lawsuit filed against AMIKids is for general neglect, gross negligence and reckless infliction of emotional distress.

The sheriff’s office is continuing its investigation. Anyone with information regarding this case can call the sheriff’s tip line at 843-287-0235.

AMIKids Sand Hills is accused of failing to protect the boy.

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S.C. — Three months after the Chesterfield County Sheriff's Office said a woman turned herself in for inappropriate contact with a teen, the boy's family is now suing the non-profit residential program she worked at, claiming the program was neglectful, as she reportedly groomed him into an inappropriate relationship with her.

The suit, filed September 10 in the county's court of common pleas, claims AMIkids Sand Hills was negligent in addressing the messages between 31-year-old Florence Garland White of the Patrick community and the 15-year-old boy. Anna Magann, a lawyer with the McGowan, Hood, Felder, and Phillips firm, said the boy was placed into the program in January 2025 after he was caught joyriding with a friend in his father's work van. In May, the teen's probation officer reached out to his parents with concerns about inappropriate letters the teen had in his possession. Another resident in the AMIkids program had also come forward to report that the teen was leaving his bed at night to meet with White. An employee later informed the teen's mother that he had been harming himself and was taken to the hospital.

According to Magann, the teen's mother contacted the AMIkids director, who reportedly claimed the teen and White had only met once, despite the teen himself saying multiple meetings had happened. Magann claims the director didn't terminate or discipline white and excused the inappropriate contact, claiming White was "young and naive" and was surprised the teen's mother cared.

The teen was dismissed from the AMIkids program early, but White continued to work there. Magann said White was only terminated after the teen's mother contacted deputies to press charges, and that White kept contacting the teen after he had left the program, sending him text messages that were explicit and sexual in nature. The suit claims she had nicknamed the boy "Demon Boy" or "Demon Baby", alternating between the two.

“AMIkids knew that White was abusing her position and victimizing a minor they were supposed to be helping. But instead of taking action to protect this child and its other residents, it chose to protect this predator and only fired her after an investigation commenced,” said Magann. “AMIkids’ negligence put our client at risk, and it needs to be held accountable.”

AMIkids Sand Hills is part of the nationwide AMIkids program, which offers rehabilitative services for youth. WCNC Charlotte reached out to the Sand Hills office for comment, but has not yet heard back.