Sex in Juvenile Prison?
2010-02-01 - by
Awhile back the newspapers were running horror stories about patients in state mental hospitals being sexually attacked, beaten and even dying due to neglect – the whole thing sounded like a nightmare straight out of 19th century mental asylums.
Now the newspapers are running horror stories about juvenile prisons for young girls – and it’s worse: One-third of the teenage girls in Samarkand State Juvenile prison in Moore County who were part of a recent study told the Obama Administration they have been sexually molested by guards.
The Perdue Administration says that’s not true and believing accusations by young girls with checkered pasts is just plain silly; and the head warden of the women’s prisons (who was appointed after making over $10,000 in contributions to Governor Perdue’s campaigns) went over to the General Assembly and told legislators the young women were “highly sexualized” when they got to prison which sounds like if there was sex the girls may have been the culprits and not the guards.
I guess that could be so – but allegations of sexually abusing teenage girls in women’s prisons isn’t your run of the mill political scandal where taxpayers got ripped off or politicians got discounts on beach front lots, and you’d expect any responsible Governor wouldn’t leave a stone unturned to be absolutely certain it isn’t true – but, instead, as she usually does (with political scandals) the Governor’s buried her head in the sand. She not only didn’t do anything to investigate the allegations she stopped the News and Observer dead in its tracks by refusing to release records about past charges of sexual abuse in the juvenile prisons.
If the allegations in the Obama Administration’s report are canards a single SBI agent could prove it – so why hasn’t Governor Perdue ordered an investigation? If it turns out the young women are telling the truth it’s hard to imagine a more damning example of neglect.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Democrats
Sex in Juvenile Prison?
2010-02-01/
Awhile back the newspapers were running horror stories about patients in state mental hospitals being sexually attacked, beaten and even dying due to neglect – the whole thing sounded like a nightmare straight out of 19th century mental asylums.
Now the newspapers are running horror stories about juvenile prisons for young girls – and it’s worse: One-third of the teenage girls in Samarkand State Juvenile prison in Moore County who were part of a recent study told the Obama Administration they have been sexually molested by guards.
The Perdue Administration says that’s not true and believing accusations by young girls with checkered pasts is just plain silly; and the head warden of the women’s prisons (who was appointed after making over $10,000 in contributions to Governor Perdue’s campaigns) went over to the General Assembly and told legislators the young women were “highly sexualized” when they got to prison which sounds like if there was sex the girls may have been the culprits and not the guards.
I guess that could be so – but allegations of sexually abusing teenage girls in women’s prisons isn’t your run of the mill political scandal where taxpayers got ripped off or politicians got discounts on beach front lots, and you’d expect any responsible Governor wouldn’t leave a stone unturned to be absolutely certain it isn’t true – but, instead, as she usually does (with political scandals) the Governor’s buried her head in the sand. She not only didn’t do anything to investigate the allegations she stopped the News and Observer dead in its tracks by refusing to release records about past charges of sexual abuse in the juvenile prisons.
If the allegations in the Obama Administration’s report are canards a single SBI agent could prove it – so why hasn’t Governor Perdue ordered an investigation? If it turns out the young women are telling the truth it’s hard to imagine a more damning example of neglect.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Democrats