Ivan is a 17-year-old boy who came from Italy as a foreign exchange student to attend Minnewaska High School.  He was staying with the Boysen family outside of Starbuck.  Ivan loved attending Minnewaska, but was having issues with his host family with getting basic needs like a haircut or contact solution.  He was in the process of transferring to a different family to live out the rest of the school year when his world was flipped upside down.  He was at home when his host mom, Tracy, had two brownies in a zip lock bag for Ivan to eat. She told him to eat his brownies and then when he was done eating them asked for the bag back, then told him to take a shower.  Enough time to plant marijuana in his room.. The Pope county sheriff was in the house waiting for him, as Tracy Boysen had called the sheriff, saying Ivan had weed in his room.  Ivan denied ever doing drugs before.  Tracy helped the cops search his room where they found Marijuana in his backpack. Needless to say, Ivan was taken to a different family in Osakis (where he says they are a very nice family and feels safe).  He was then given a drug test that he suggested to take, where he failed for Marijuana.  How can you fail a test when you have never done drugs before? And after inconveniently eating a brownie his host mom gave him and then called the cops right after? It’s like she knew what was going to happen.  Ivan will be sent back to Italy and stripped of coming back to the USA, or he can stay and fight his case in court while waiting in jail. I believe this story should be shared and maybe it can hit the right person to help this poor boy out.  In Ivan's story, which I will share, he states how she would get high and drink a lot.  She should be held accountable for drugging a minor and neglect (being she poorly took care of him and his needs as he’s stated) He is thousands of miles away from home, 17, scared, and does not know how to help himself fight this!  He is now going to fail the school year and have to make that up. His dreams are being stripped and traumatized because his host parents set him up to fail.
PLEASE help sign this petition to give Ivan the justice he deserves