Vive Adolescent Care: 16-year-old Died at St. George, UT Residential Psych Facility; Staff Did Not Discover for up to 10 Hours

October 24, 2024

Maggie Montelongo was desperate.

Her daughter, Arianna Duenez, had struggled for years in residential treatment facilities in and out of California – becoming addicted to drugs in the process and increasingly expressing suicidal ideation.

So when Duenez was transferred from a teen treatment center in southern Utah to Vive Adolescent Care in St. George in May 2023, Montelongo was cautiously optimistic.

“I took her there in hopes that they could help her," Montelongo said, her eyes welling with tears. But now, Montelongo said, all she has of her daughter are the memories – and “her ashes. That’s what they gave me back.”

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