Minors Abused in Department of Juvenile Justice Program
Some of the youth workers were having sex with the underage boys in their care. Others were smuggling drugs, money, cellphones and porn. A top administrator reportedly sent a kid to the hospital during a violent restraint, bragging: “You gonna learn; this my program.”
But if conditions at the Highlands Youth Academy in Avon Park were not exactly conducive to the rehabilitation of delinquent youths, state juvenile justice administrators were doing little to turn things around. So, on Thursday, the Polk County sheriff arrested three former top administrators, saying the charges appeared to be the only way to clean the place up.
Alas, some of the people running these programs are being seen for what they are.
If my kid was in that place i take him out of there safe place for kids are never safe what gives kids still getting raped in schools and detention centers
Hm…Polk County officials committing egregious and nefarious acts while in positions of authority…who woulda thought?
Seems to me that Polk County has their share of problems. Even without “stings” to catch people in the act of commiting crimes, they have a natural occuring flow of illegal activity. If good money wasn’t
wastefully spent on a punitive, ineffective registry maybe those funds could be utilized to help these juveniles become the happy and prosperous people they were born to be. Florida is a great embarrassment for people that know what goes on here, while our law makers and enforcers scratch their heads in confusion.
Gee i wonder if they’ll get placed on the registry?
I have to wonder how the RSO’s are going to find shelter and food if they are not allowed to go to the shelters in Houston Texas, or any other town or cite affected by the flooding…I’m willing to bet that many will end up violating the restrictions…
And more power to them if they do. Sometimes we have to take a stand against wrong.
There is a lot more of this going on than we know about. The watchers are sometimes more dangerous than the offenders they are watching.
Some of the people that are making all the noise are the most guilty and have something to hide.