Law Enforcement Response to Child Abuse
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Showing posts with label child abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label child abuse. Show all posts
1,400 Cases of "Appalling" Sexual Exploitation Revealed in UK Report
"Hundreds of children have been systematically raped, beaten and sex trafficked in a northern English town for more than 12 years. And it is still going on, a government commissioned report says.
"Hundreds of children have been systematically raped, beaten and sex trafficked in a northern English town for more than 12 years. And it is still going on, a government commissioned report says.
The 'appalling'
revelations also expose cultural tensions and lack of communication
between authorities and the town's ethnic minorities that may have
helped stop it.
Social counselors saw
evidence of sexual exploitation early on, but turned a blind eye,
according to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in
Rotherham."
Read the Jay Report
This Is What a Police State Looks Like: 7 Yr Old Interrogated, Handcuffed for Hours over $5.00.
You see, it was all done 'by the book.' according to NYPD.
What does the book tell a police officer to do when a seven year old gets into a fight with another seven year old over $5.00?
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... children seven to 17 can be charged as juveniles. "Everything was done properly," the unidentified cop told the News.
What does the book tell a police officer to do when a seven year old gets into a fight with another seven year old over $5.00?
Officers showed up at PS X114 on Dec. 4 at about 10:20 a.m., and handcuffed and held ((7 year old)) Wilson in a room there for four hours. They then hauled him off to the 44th Precinct station house for another six hours of interrogation and verbal abuse...What does the book tell police to do with seven year olds when they are hauled down to the station?
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Kids in Solitary Confinement: America's Official Child Abuse
Thousands of teenagers, some as young as 14 or 15, are routinely subjected by US prisons to psychological torture.
[I felt] doomed, like I was being banished … Like you have the plague or that you are the worst thing on earth. Like you are set apart [from] everything else. I guess [I wanted to] feel like I was part of the human race – not like some animal."
Molly was just 16 years old when she was placed in isolation in an adult jail in Michigan. She described her cell as being "a box":
No other nation in the developed world routinely tortures its children in this manner. And torture is indeed the word brought to mind by a shocking report released today by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union. Growing Up Locked Down documents, for the first time, the widespread use of solitary confinement on youth under the age of 18 in prisons and jails across the country, and the deep and permanent harm it causes to kids caught up in the adult criminal justice system.
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[I felt] doomed, like I was being banished … Like you have the plague or that you are the worst thing on earth. Like you are set apart [from] everything else. I guess [I wanted to] feel like I was part of the human race – not like some animal."
Molly was just 16 years old when she was placed in isolation in an adult jail in Michigan. She described her cell as being "a box":
"There was a bed – the slab. It was concrete … There was a stainless steel toilet/sink combo … The door was solid, without a food slot or window … There was no window at all."Molly remained in solitary for several months, locked down alone in her cell for at least 22 hours a day.
No other nation in the developed world routinely tortures its children in this manner. And torture is indeed the word brought to mind by a shocking report released today by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union. Growing Up Locked Down documents, for the first time, the widespread use of solitary confinement on youth under the age of 18 in prisons and jails across the country, and the deep and permanent harm it causes to kids caught up in the adult criminal justice system.
Read on...
Thousands more children at risk
Huge crackdown on children’s services after Baby P inquiry as 28 councils are named and shamed over failed care.
By Richard Garner Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Thousands of Britain's most vulnerable children are at risk because councils are failing to move swiftly enough to protect them from abuse, it emerged last night.
Dozens of local authorities are taking inadequate action to avoid repetition of serious abuse cases, warned the head of the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted).
As the Government announced an unprecedented crackdown on children's services in an attempt to avoid another tragedy like that involving Baby P, the watchdog published a list of 28 councils where internal inquiries into serious injuries or child deaths caused by abuse were judged "inadequate".
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By Richard Garner Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Thousands of Britain's most vulnerable children are at risk because councils are failing to move swiftly enough to protect them from abuse, it emerged last night.
Dozens of local authorities are taking inadequate action to avoid repetition of serious abuse cases, warned the head of the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted).
As the Government announced an unprecedented crackdown on children's services in an attempt to avoid another tragedy like that involving Baby P, the watchdog published a list of 28 councils where internal inquiries into serious injuries or child deaths caused by abuse were judged "inadequate".
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