Kids reported years of sexual abuse by probation officers - now they want justice
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- Опубликовано: 15 апр 2024
- ABC News' Linsey Davis investigates more than 2,500 claims of abuse at juvenile probation facilities. Oversight officials say the system is broken beyond repair -- and children are in danger.
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2500 claims of abuse? That's unacceptable. That's beyond a systemic issue. Disgusting and careless.
that's the plan.
Retirement should be sued and stripped away
Absolutely!!!!
let’s not forget about young boys also that were SA also in the LA county juvenile detention. This is so sad to prey on the most vulnerable people.
No one is taking away or forgetting about anything or anyone. All abuse is bad. The people featured are female, however the reporter mentioned this was an issue at multiple detention centers in the video. These girls are being brave, sharing their stories, and fighting for justice. This report is just showing some brave individuals who are speaking up on behalf of the 2500 people impacted by abuse.
17:03 omg her quote on trauma was so profound and accurate. *“it’s so crazy how trauma works… because the people who inflict trauma, they’re not worried that they preyed on your or that they used you… and they’re not thinking about me, they went on with their lives. And I’m still trying to fix myself and still blaming myself for what I went through. So it takes strength to sit here and do this, but someone’s gotta do it”.*
3 decades of abuse overlooked by LA County wth. KEEP FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
It's bad when anyone protects an abuser but it's especially troubling to my soul when other women defend abusive men
Men& women are all demented to sexually attack a child under 21. Unqualified for positions of authority.
The children don't need rehabilitation the adults do.
They came from trauma and were re-traumatized in a system that was supposed to rehabilitate them…..😢
Absolutely unbelievable! Children are not safe from predators when they are in any system or institution in America! Heartbreaking 💔 evil
I agree with you fell şadfor for kids l hope they heve nice life 💔
These are cash for kids system placement they drug and trafficks kids with tax payers dollars. America is an abusers playground.
Thank you for telling your story and Linsey / ABC for airing it.
They need to be held accountable... disgusting!!
“Who Guards the Guards”? They guard themselves….that’s part of the problem. Internal investigations/qualified immunity need to both be done away with.
As a former adult probation officer these stories do not surprise me one bit. Sorry for the children who were victims of this corrupt system.
This is so sad....the system has failed these precious young kids
These are human trafficking organizations, they aren't failing they're doing exactly what they are made to do.
It’s sad the kids already going thru hell at home and then to be abused trying to get help this is a shame!! I pray these predators get served and they find justice.
They were going to get punished for defending reason not helped. Ppl's abusive relatives put them in these systems and other times they don't have parents cause they were kidnapped by cps.
I worked at 2 of the juvenile halls approx. 15 yrs ago and it was terribly corrupt. Probation officers would steal the kids shoes and resale them, would choke them, beat them, and sexually assault them. It's been an open secret that these crimes have been going on and no one in the upper levels of management at the county level would address it. I am not hopeful that things will change but I am glad these brave women get to sue for what was allowed to happen to them.
This story is so important.
So you saw these things and what did you do or try to do to help these kids?
@@byrd7633 girl stfu don’t answer for people and get a life, can only imagine you in real life
@@byrd7633he and the 2500 victims said a lot. Does it seem to you all that anything happened?
@@catmejia6109 That's how cash for kids system staff are. They end up quitting and getting PTSD after being payed to help abuse kids. These systems hire bitter old ppl and college kids who just want a paycheck.
It’s common sense that these men and even women would abuse their power against these children. Government should set laws to protect kids.
Damn shame. These victims deserve justice. Adults know damn well you don't harm children, especially when you are employed to ensure their safety and well-being at all times.
There are many more that were reported and deliberately ignored!
In the "game" of abuse by people in authority, it's often open secrets where everyone knows, stays silent, and punishes whistleblowers.
If you're poor, you have no shot at fighting fighting back. Your only hope, is to find someone of immense integrity but those people don't make it to the top to enact change.
This is so true.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INVESTIGATION 👏👏👏👏👏
This was hard to watch. I pray the attorney continues with this case until all the victims receive justice. This is utterly disappointing and disgusting from the abuse, neglect & use of taxpayers’ money.
Simply appalling the scale and depth of the abuse of power and abject failure of oversight/accountability.
We endured so much all of us and I am so appreciative of the coverage that this is getting thank you so much
Lets be honest here. Does anything surprise you anymore? Everyone abuses their power like its nothing
Truest comment of the year.
How callous and heartless
The devil is running rampant here in the US.
This is old stuff that's been going on for forever. These trauma based mind control systems have been here and are legal, but we the ppl have done nothing but pay taxes to keep them going. The devil is just finally being exposed as we are the judgment dispensation. Although It's not even really exposure because this is stuff everyone knew but did nothing abt.
Omg… this is so heartbreaking. My heart hurts for these women. My heart hurts for the young kids they were. These people/ predators/ evil ass people look and seek jobs like this so they can do these crimes and not get caught.
Im so very sorry for these victims; abused by a system in the system. 😢💔
Thank you to these strong women for sharing their stories. I pray you get the justice you deserve because none of this was your fault. You were the innocent child despite any poor decision you made to be sent to this horrible place.
Excellent work . Thanks Lindsey for using your platform to shed light and much needed disclosures.👍👊🏆
Where do you find predators and abusers? Anywhere there is prey. Wherever the vulnerable with no voice and autonomy. All persons charged with caring for the most vulnerable are abusers. Every single one. Whether through direct abuse or complicity, all are monsters. The system only hires abusers because they attract their own kind; anyone who enjoys abusing or who won’t ever speak up. Almost every single adult in this environment is a monster!
Women can be the absolute worst. Asking a victim not to report her abuser. What would’ve been her reaction had this happened to her daughter.😡
Probably wouldn't have even cared . Smh
Cause the women SA the kids too with the dudes and are probably having affairs with their coworkers.
The update at the end is ridiculous. I hope at the very least they created measures to protect the children. Sad thing is that there is probably someone in the system right now going through this exact issue. I hope not, but if something is never addressed it's bound to be repeated.
crap jobs attract predators
Jobs that give people authority over others
THE CATHOLIC PRIESTS ARE EVEN WORSE
Cause the height of satanism is child abuse. The pagan Roman catholic church turns kids out for Baal worship. All child abuse is a demonic ritual. The sexual one is specifically associated with thelema and vergo vasal when it's s0d0my. Then if you go into sra/sex trafficking they do this for something called "trauma based mind control" and they give you D.I.D. This systems are all doing the same things on different levels. Child abuse is an agenda and not a coincidence.
I found out last year that my grandfather and his friends were doing that to the young people he was a probation officer over. Him and his friends would take them upstairs and do abominable things to them. I’m sorry for what has occurred to you guys in these prisons
Btw we never came around him except for 1 time as a young girl
Oh wow
Abusers should be jailed and superviser
Breaking news
This is what happens when you trust government
All non profits are equally vile. There’s zero oversight.
Bless them for coming forward. I wonder how many others there are in these types of facilities all over the country.....more will start to show up i'm sure. I am terrified about that fact and know it to be sooo true as well....horrific!!! People can be soooo evil!!!!
These kids break the law and need help, then the people that should care and show them the way, takes advantage of that. It's a dam shame.
And it's considered a misdemeanor.
This system was set up to help these young ladies and abused them! So sad! And sick! Just think about the victims that did not speak up and many more they abused.
They aren't set up to help. Their actual marketing is to punish kids for their trauma symptoms.
Never, never answer calls from unknown numbers!
Feel so bad for the lady and her family 🙏🙏 R.I.P. 🙏🌷
So glad the truth is coming out👏🏾
They should find the perpetrators, and hold them all accountable even if they are not working for the office anymore. The retired men have likely done this many times. The woman who defended him, should also be held accountable for assisting him and obstructing justice.
How is the troubled teen in the California system.. listen to a group home in San Bernardino where I was physically abused by the night staff.
Show their faces.
pure evil
Oh how the good old boys stick together! Keep speaking out and justice be served.
Just degrading that a young girl could suffer from this. Albany Ga has had Similar situations like this in the past year.
@6:00 mins did this interviewer ACTUALLY ask her "Was this rape"? She was 13! How do you even ask that to someone who was a child victim of rape / sex trafficking. She was literally paid after being raped repeatedly. Just because he paid her doesn't mean it wasn't rape. LA should be tried & indicted by the International Tribunal. Our tax dollars are paying for sex abusers who are on LEAVE? Thousands of victims in LA alone? Smh! We lovvvvve talking about abuse against girls & children abroad...BUT what about the prevalent abuse right here in the USA???!!!
I think the thumbnails should clarify that it's just not kids but it's young girls, I think that makes it more profound that young women are being raped..
I thought it was more boys involved from the thumbnail but when I'm saying is these are young ladies and they need to express that not just kids, gender does matter.
Boys don't get pregnant, young ladies have a different mindset and different issues than young men, I know I raised a daughter and had to have her put somewhere, and she was in a girl's place and having sex with young ladies..
There are many male victims as well
@@domonatrisspeakonit Thank you I couldn't finish watching all that that's a little too much..
& we are supposed to trust the system? 🤨. I don't trust 👮♂️
This was very touching justice for these girls
I hope they win their suits and the perpetrators need to be jailed for life.
This system is just "wrong," all they're trying to do is hold onto their jobs and the "power" it wields! 😢 These grown folk will one day give an answer for "every thing" they have ever done. They will rue the day they touched one of the least of these! The children aren't the problem, it's the grown folk (so-called adults) that are the REAL problem.
These kids are vulnerable, which is why the sick individuals sought them out to abuse.
This is just awful
Thankfully there has been significant reform within the juvenile justice system in the last 10 years. Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) through the Annie E Casey Foundation is practiced nationwide. Indiana is the first state to have the most counties doing this initiative
Where is the female guard who shushed Dominique?? She should be charged with rape, she's just as guilty as the person who actually touched the child!!!!
If those who control these places are willing to allow this to go on. What are those who control these people guilty of doing themselves???? Corruption is NOT just at the lower levels.
This is how the cash for kids system works. They lable, drug, m0lest, s0d0moze, traffick, etc already traumatized kids with tax payer dollars. This isn't rare this is what these systems are made for. Ppl need to be rescuing kids in these trafficking organizations instead of saying the kis deserve it because they're "sl0w, bad, and crazy".
Very HEARTBREAKING 😢😢😢😢 such horrible people to do something so terrible..this world is getting worse I definitely wouldn't want to have any more children to be born into this crappyness that's going on . Oh lordy it wouldn't be good on someone that put there hands on any child of mine. I don't believe in unaliving someone but in a situation like this I would most likely feel like taking that preditor out of the world so he or she couldn't ever do it again . Praying for any child or adult that's been abused by a sicko . My heart breaks hearing stuff like this that's going on in the world that we are all living in daily. I mean they are everywhere and it happens everywhere unfortunately 😢😢😢
Why doesn't the Probation Oversight Commission, the BSCC and the Board of Supervisors shut the juvenile halls?
The question why wasn't it reported and taken on the outside level to get them investigated years ago or help to direct these girls ? There were attorneys who would have jumped on this and advocate groups ACLU
Every person on the planet should have someone to answer to. They dont understand how sick adults these days are. I was in a military bootcamp ran by the ARMY and it changed my life forever. They always protected us and taught me what no one else could. I pray that kids get more of that instead of being hurt. I was in foster care and went through so many horrible things. I was grateful Youth Challenge saved me. The military needs to take these kids and turn them into something and stop letting regular people do it. Solatary confinement was all I ever knew as a kid. So much so that i enjoy being alone.
He ahould have thought about how his daughter would view him being a pedofile praying on the most vulnerable children, before he committed the crimes. That woman who sought to silence his victim is an accomplice.
Sad, sad sad
Young people do not need to be lacked up in cages.
They need good guidance and people to help to care. for them so they do not need to think about stealing out of desperation.
These facilities and these punishment rules are made by people who make fat paychecks while the underage children don't have a way to make money like they do.
They do not need punishment, they need help.
Any place where a person is locked up and not able to leave, that is punishment or kidnaping.
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The true root is education to keep these young ladies out these situations and facilities because it's always broken. If that’s even possible with the current crop 🎉
This does not surprise me at all
May true healing take place for those who have been abused and may justice be served even after the dust has settled concerning these matters in Jesus' name.
GOD IS WATCHING😢
Help tell these kids to avoid Assumption uni, it is not abusing, it is dead accidents. Every corner of campus is tape recorder, stealing and uploading for years, conversation from school office. Violation of privacy led to many time your home, robber and thief. Abac never refused the violation.
Never truth to polices
real life sleepers type of ish
slighty less bad than your genocides right? and all the rest of those things, huh?
Sorry you ladies had to go through this. Sick disgusting people and people actually tried to hide it. Good luck explaining that to God. So gross
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This story is as old as Man's existence on the planet.
Chopper city✂️
This is messed up. Did you know this? That "As a Christian, Soul Winning Is our responsibility. That we should try to win our immediate family and relatives (John 1:40-42). We should try to win our friends and neighbors (John 4:28-29, 39).We should try to win other people (Mark 16:15)As a Christian, we should Know the Result of not Trying to Win a Soul for Jesus Christ, that God Will Require us to Answer to Him if that Person Dies without Being Saved (Eze 3:18-19; Acts 20:26-27; Pro 24:11-12) Friends,start now so that we do not have to meet Jesus empty-handed without SAVED souls.
This been the American way😒….and when they were discovered, Nicolodeon
Rom 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Rom 6:23
For the wages of sin is death;
Psalms 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Acts 8:37
And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Rom 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Corinthians 15:3-4
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
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Once again, CA leads the way.
😂😂😂 yeah while the catholic church abuses kids world wide.. yeah .. 🤦♂️
This is behavior of old school probation officers.. has almost nothing to do with present probation officers. Yes there will be some bad seeds in the present, but I’m sure it’s nothing like how it was back then. The 80s is far from 2024.
Nah, more like 2000's
I doubt it's stopped. In GA an investigation has been opened about missing kids that are suppossed to be under state care. Some of these kids are sex trafficked. A teacher in TX was just arrested for sex trafficking. ANYWHERE there are vulnerable and troubled kids losers will prey on them. Especially when there is no or limited oversight. It is STILL a HUGE problem sadly.
Did you not hear her say there was a probation officer who was fired the same day the interview with them was supposed to take place for having sex with one of the minor inmates. It really is this mentality that allows this to continue
This was not the 80s look at your calander carefully.
This happened in erly 2000's my dear!
Victory of leftist
This happens more than you know. I was in the juvenile justice system as a teenager and the things I have SEEN 😮 and the things I have HEARD 🫢