Staff workers who care directly for the boys in residential cottages scattered across the 150-acre campus have a starting salary of only $20,000 a year - not even a living wage in Westchester County, advocates charge.
It consists of a few cottages and farmhouses scattered around a church and manor house.
Historically the parish consisted of a number of farmsteads and associated cottages scattered around the focal point of Holy Trinity church and the adjacent Gidleigh Castle, which is now in private hands.
Referred by the courts and child welfare agencies, they live in 14 cottages scattered on the 175-acre wooded campus.
The cottages and huts scattered among the nearby hills were shuttered and locked against the short summer night, their domestic animals safe in folds or byres.
Dobřichovice has about 3,000 permanent inhabitants and several hundred temporary inhabitants (mainly from Prague) coming to spend the weekend at cottages scattered by the waterside.
Six or eight such cottages scattered over a rolling country-side were all the houses to be found there in the days when the century was young.
In the 19th century it boasted a Chapel, a shop and post office and a pub together with several cottages scattered around the road junction on which the hamlet sits.
