“250 cases of abuse”: choked, beaten at facilities. “Workers at a center for distressed children provoked seven developmentally disabled girls into a fight of biting and bruising as staffers laughed, cheered and promised the winners a precious prize: after-school snacks”
“The fight was one of more than 250 incidents of confirmed abuse and mistreatment in residential treatment centers during the past two years, based on the Chronicle/Tribune review of state records. But unlike last year's scandal at the Corpus Christi State School, where staffers were found to have forced mentally disabled adults to fight one another, there were no impassioned calls for reform. No criminal indictments sought against the perpetrators. And no lawmakers publicly grilling a state agency about how it could have happened.”
“Instead, the two staffers at Daystar, a child residential treatment center located 30 minutes south of Houston, were quietly fired after the fight in 2008. To this day, the names of the pair — a dorm supervisor and another female worker — are kept secret by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, even though the center, contracted by the state to provide care, has received $16 million in taxpayer money since 2006.”
YEAH, let’s create a system for abused animals just like the one for children ‘cause that works SO well!
Better yet, let’s have a humane society take over these children’s centers.
Oops, sorry, that means they’d really disappear into a black hole where half or so are euthanized within hours! Maybe that’s not such a good idea.
Oh, well, never mind, CLEARLY children and animals are in MUCH better circumstances in government facilities and humane societies; hidden away where the public doesn’t generally know about the atrocities that go on behind those closed doors.
It’s only our doors, the ones to our homes, that no longer are allowed to keep out prying eyes! Warrants be damned says a California appellate court. All one needs is an officer to claim to hear a dog in distress (said dog found moments later unresponsive but still... SOMEHOW that officer heard it; didn't hear enough to be guided to it but still...) to enter and search your home, no warrant needed at all - not even to look in your freezer. Wow, that sound must have been loud to suspect it was coming from inside a freezer! Oh, no, the dog was unresponsive and weak so maybe not so loud (or at all) and, oh, uh, they'd already found the dog before digging around in the freezer. (I am horrified by this dog owner's behavior if it is as described. I am ALSO horrified by the officers' and courts' behavior. 2 WRONGS do NOT make a right.)
The government and humane societies keep filthy secrets while they drag media cameras into our homes to take pictures for splashing across the internet with their fantastical allegations. I don’t think that’s how the Sunshine Laws are intended to work, is it?