State Shuts Down Home for Disabled Children

The state, acting on allegations of abuse, shut down a small home for developmentally disabled children Monday. The operators of the Carson home voluntarily closed another school in 1988 after similar reports.

Claudine Hall, who with her husband, Charles, operates the Hall Family Home at 108 W. 229th Place, was accused of kicking one of the children in her care, Department of Social Services spokeswoman Kathleen Norris said.

An informant told authorities that Claudine Hall “apparently caused the child to fall, then kicked the child in the kidney area of her back on June 19,” Norris said. The home’s license was suspended while department officials sought to revoke it. Six developmentally disabled children lived in the board-and-care home, which the Halls have operated under a license issued in 1975.