17-year-old escapes Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center after burglary spree

A 17-year-old with ties to a burglary spree in Colorado Springs last year, has escaped from the Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center in Golden.

Quinn Scaggs is described as a violent offender with multiple felony charges. He was identified in a series of burglaries last year partly caught on camera. According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, he had been reported missing Oct. 31, 2017 before being arrested in May 2018.

Scaggs is the third teen to escape from the facility in recent weeks and according to Anders Jacobson, the Director of Youth Services, he got away, despite all the precautions that were in place to prevent such an incident, like room, fence, and perimeter checks.

Officials with Lookout Mountain Youth Services say Scaggs removed his room window and used bedsheets to climb over the fence at the Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center in Golden.

Jacobson says the population of the facility has made many recent changes within the past few months, reducing the census a by approximately a third of its population, or 53 youths.

Jacobson says the facility is also planning to put in anti-climb mesh to prevent any further escapes from the facility

Back in 2010, a U.S. Justice Department report about sexual abuse in juvenile facilities reported Lookout Mountain was one of the worst in Colorado with 12% of youth reporting being sexually assaulted.

You may also remember another notable escape about five years ago. Zachary Oliver escaped in August 2014, brutally beating an elderly guard with a pillowcase filled with rocks. That was after he had already racked up 243 violations at the center.