Proponent Slam Utah Law, the homeschool supervision after misuse of death.

Salt Lake City (Kutv) – Almost a year after the 12-year-old Gavin Peterson tortured and starved, his stepmother Nichole Scott learned that she would live behind bars for 21 years.

When the legal proceedings come to an end, frustration in the community only grows.

According to promises by the heads of state and government to make changes that could help prevent another tragedy like Gavin, families and children's aid lawyers said that nothing was done to remedy the system that did not exist. They argue that the state has moved in the opposite direction.

Rachel Reynolds, who worked as an adjutant at the primary school of Gavin, still has a “justice for gavin” shirt.

“It is something that we want to wear for many different reasons to represent him, not only because he does justice to his family who did this to him, but also from the system that failed him,” said Reynolds.

Reynolds and other school staff reported the distribution of the division of children's and family services before gavin was drawn to homeschooling from Kanesville Elementary.

“There were even calls that were made after he was drawn to the homeschool because we were worried that they had to go to the homeschool school for this reason,” said Reynolds.

Reynolds described clear red flags that led to his retreat from school.

“We gave him food. We were not said. And we still sneaked out to him every day,” said Reynolds. “Some of the lunch women even hid food in his backpack. And then he came back to school with a clear backpack so that we couldn't do that.”

Jonah Stewart, managing director of the coalition for responsible home formation, said Gavin's case follows a pattern that you have documented.

“We maintain a database with serious, publicly documented cases of abuse and neglect in the homeschool environment. At that time we cataloged over 500 cases that led tragically to over 200 deaths. And Gavin's case actually follows a very typical profile of the case,” said Stewart.

Stewart was concerned about the fact that the legislator in Utah voted reinsurance through the house law 209 this year, which eliminated the request of the parents to submit a criminal an affidavit in homeschooling.

“Utah was actually one of only three countries who had this provision. It was Utah, Pennsylvania and Arkansas. Utah only introduced the provision in 2023 with cross -party support.

When Governor Cox was asked last autumn whether additional protective measures were required for homeschooling, governor emphasized the parental responsibility.

“The people who are responsible for this are the people who abuse this child and they are held accountable and I hope that they rotten in hell. They are the responsible people. It is not the government who is a ridiculous claim in all houses and everyone who teaches at home,” said Cox.

Stewart replied to the governor's comments: “The reality is that the people who harm this child were the child's caregivers and were nursing staff at school.”

Stewart added: “It seems that the governor homeschooling admires. He seems to have a very high opinion about homeschooling. My call to someone like this would be:” Okay, they support homeschooling. Let us say people who give him a bad name. “

Stewart is committed to the “Make Homeschool Safe Act” to build basic protective measures.

“What the action does are some very fundamental things. It requires children at school to be taken into account, which means that parents submit an annual notification to their school district or training of the Foreign Ministry,” said Stewart. “Very basic things that the rights of families do not violate homeschool.”

For Reynolds, the memories of Gavin remain painful.

“For the rest of my life, I will follow me that Gavin never managed to get out of this house,” she said. “I can't even imagine how this last year of his life was – the fear and hunger he must have felt. And I will never really know. It hurts so much to believe that he experienced it every day. We tried it.”

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