Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Legislature / Phillips Great Moments in Tennessee Budget Cutting: Give More Kids to Child Rapists. Oh, Sorry, Alleged Child Rapists.
Posted by Betsy Phillips on Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:48 AM
In January the Department of Justice put out a report (pdf) in which they found about one in four kids at Woodland Hills Youth Development Center had been the victim of some type of sexual misconduct. All of this misconduct, the report found, was perpetrated by staff members on juveniles.
The Tennessean looked into this. They found evidence that corroborated the DOJ report. State lawmakers even got together and discussed how to fix things. It is IMPOSSIBLE they don't know that kids are being sexually victimized at Woodland Hills.
So I have to ask you, in all seriousness, what sick fucks are still considering closing the New Visions Youth Development Center and moving more kids into Woodland Hills? Has this honestly come down to what's more important -- saving some tax dollars, or handing kids over to a place known for sexual predators?
This is the equivalent of selling those girls to rapists.
Let me be clear. Not everyone who works at Woodland Hills is a sexual predator. But it has been documented as a place where sexual predators can, and do, use their access to the incarcerated (and the fact that we don't take women-on-boy crimes as seriously as we take man-on-girl crimes) to victimize these kids. And we have not yet fixed the problem.
And what does the DOJ study also tell us? Ninety-five percent of these incidents have a female perpetrator. Even if the female perpetrators prefer male victims, they will victimize females as well, especially in concert with male perpetrators.
We know what will happen to those girls if we send them to Woodland Hills, because we know what is happening to the boys.
Forget being fiscally bankrupt. We are morally bankrupt as a state if we knowingly send juveniles to live with people who sexually assault them in order to save a few bucks.
If this happens, we're child traffickers. Plain and simple. We have sold those girls for money. I wish that were hyperbole, but it's not.
We should be seriously talking about how to save those boys from that place, not how to stick girls into the mess, too.
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This isn't about feminism, it's about morally bankrupt public policy that victimizes children. I wonder if our lawmakers can bestir themselves to do something about this, in between trips to the gun range.
Ben, I don't know. Honestly. I think we just have to raise such a stink about this by calling them and by spreading the word that they are too embarrassed to let this happen.
Thisisaboutkids, I promise, in between bouts of baby-eating and man-hating, feminists are deeply concerned about kids being raped by state employees, how to put a stop to it, and how to keep more kids from being victims.
Hey, which browser is this site optimised for? Looks a little funny in Safari. Still nice site though :).
So being against the rape of minor girls by state employees is somehow just feminazis being bitchy?
I hate that these things have went on at Woodland Hills, and was glad to hear that New Visions had opened when they did. I myself was incarcerated at Woodlland Hills YDC from April 2000 to February 2001. Even though, I myself, did not experience nor did I witness any sexual misconduct (except that between the inmates themselves), I still never understood why the females and males (although seperated by "the wall") were housed at the same facility.
