Beating the Odds

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Beating the Odds IBI & Child Development Services
Beating the Odds
IndustryHealth
Founded2015
FounderAmber Maloney
Headquarters
Utopia, Essa, Ontario
,
Canada
Services Applied Behaviour Analysis, Intensive Behavioural Intervention
OwnerAmber Maloney
Website www.beatingtheoddsautism.com

Beating the Odds IBI & Child Development Services, commonly known as Beating the Odds, was a Canadian company that provided therapy to children on the autism spectrum.

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Founded by Amber Maloney in 2015, the company initially provided home-care visits, and opened a therapy centre near Barrie, Ontario in 2022.

The centre was shut down in 2023, shortly before the owner was arrested.

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Beating the Odds IBI & Child Development Services was founded in 2015 by Amber-Lee Maloney [1] (born 1986or1987). [2] Based in Essa, Ontario, [3] the company provided Applied Behaviour Analysis and Intensive Behavioural Intervention therapies. [1] Initially providing autism therapy via home-visits, the company opened a therapy centre on June 23, 2022. [4] By July 2023, the centre had not obtained a license to operate the therapy centre. [5]

On July 18, 2023, the Ontario Ministry of Education issued a protection order to the school, declaring "an imminent risk to the safety and wellbeing of the children receiving care." [6] The order prohibited the centre from operating. [6] The Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General issued a statement discouraging parents from using the centre. [5] The day prior, the Ontario Provincial Police issued a public advisory about Lauriston Maloney (born 1980or1981 [6] ) the husband of Amber Maloney and a convinced sex offender. [3] Lauriston Maloney was operating a construction company, registered to the same address as the centre and lived on the same premises. [5] From 2002 to 2004, Lauriston Charles Maloney operated a business managing sex workers. According to Maloney, one of his workers was under 18 years old. [7] In 2004, Maloney was arrested [8] and charged with offences after a fourteen-year-old girl from Brampton was allegedly forced to perform sex work for one month. [9] In their public advisory, police noted Lauriston Maloney's sixteen convictions in relation to "trafficking and sexual offences involving minors." [10] His convictions occurred in 2004 and 2013. [11]

Parents of the children who attended the centre held a second protest outside the centre on July 19. [12] The same day the centre was searched by police [13] and both Lauriston Maloney and Amber Maloney were arrested. [3] Lauriston Maloney was charged with "two counts of assault, trafficking a person, receiving material benefit from trafficking a person and forcible confinement". Amber was charged with "trafficking a person, receiving material benefit from trafficking a person, administering a noxious substance, fraud and uttering a forged document." [12]

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  1. 1 2 Hicks, Amanda (2022-05-10). "Autism school for kids to open on farm just outside Barrie". CTV News . Archived from the original on 2022-07-06. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  2. ↑ Rocca, Ryan; Rodrigues, Gabby (20 July 2023). "Ontario children's centre owner, sex offender living there charged with human trafficking". Global News . Archived from the original on 2023-07-20. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  3. 1 2 3 Philips, Kim (2023-07-19). "Convicted sex offender and wife arrested 2 days after Ontario police issue rare public advisory". CTV News . Archived from the original on 2023-07-20. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  4. ↑ Hicks, Amanda (2022-06-23). "New autism school opens near Barrie". CTV News . Archived from the original on 2022-07-04. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  5. 1 2 3 Pritchard, Brad; Herald, Alliston (2023-07-19). "Unlicensed autism facility near Barrie served protection order after police warn public about sex offender living at property". Simcoe.com. Archived from the original on 2023-07-20. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  6. 1 2 3 Aguilar, Bryann (2023-07-19). "Ontario facility ordered to stop providing child care after police reveal sex offender lives on site". CP24 . Archived from the original on 2023-07-20. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  7. ↑ Philips, Kim (2023-07-18). "Convicted sexual offender speaks out after OPP issues rare public advisory". CTV News . Archived from the original on 2023-07-20. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  8. ↑ Mitchell, Bob (4 August 2004). "Teenage prostitution ring busted". Toronto Star. p. B02. ProQuest   438729315.
  9. ↑ Douglas, Pam (6 August 2004). "Brampton men face string of prostitution- related charges". The Brampton Guardian. ProQuest   362368495. Peel police say they have rescued a 14-year-old Brampton girl forced to work 10-hour days turning tricks in hotel rooms throughout Mississauga ...Lauriston Charles Maloney, 23, of Brampton is charged with procuring a person to become a prostitute, living off the avails of a juvenile prostitute...
  10. ↑ Philips, Kim (2023-07-17). "OPP issue rare public advisory about sex offender in Simcoe County". CTV News . Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  11. ↑ Rocca, Ryan (17 July 2023). "Man convicted of human trafficking of children is living at Ontario children's centre: police | Globalnews.ca". Global News . Archived from the original on 2023-07-20. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  12. 1 2 Herald, Alliston; Ramsay, Janis (2023-07-20). "Essa Township couple running autism day camp held for bail hearings following human-trafficking charges". DurhamRegion.com. Archived from the original on 2023-07-20. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  13. ↑ Phillips, Kim (2023-07-20). "Human trafficking probe at autism camp leaves Ont. community shaken". CTV News . Archived from the original on 2023-07-21. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
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