TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Dec 29, 2022

Nashville’s NewsChannel 5 reports that one of the five teens who escaped from the Natchez Trace Youth Academy in Waverly says a staff member at the facility helped them get out. Investigators said following the escape early Wednesday morning, the teens had stolen a car in Humphreys County before carjacking someone in Hickman County. But DeJuan Prime — who says he was one of the teens involved in the escape — said that an employee at the youth academy helped the teens plan it out. Prime said the teens and the staffer had planned the escape during the week prior: “It's five youth who escaped to see their parents on the holidays. Yes, I'm one of them.” According to the youth academy, all five teens have been safely located.