God Help the Kids

[tommy.irene]

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/video-emerges-of-torture-of-child-prisoners-in-aus...

[tommy.irene]

The Australian government has launched an investigation into a youth detention centre where teenagers were filmed being assaulted, tear gassed and forcibly stripped naked by laughing prison guards. Footage obtained by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Four Corners programme showed a 14-year-old boy being hooded and strapped to a chair for almost two hours as part of treatment that could amount to torture according to the UN. SHARE Malcolm Turnbull, the Australian Prime Minister, said he was shocked by the abuses at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre.

[icyfroth]

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@tommy.irene wrote:
The Australian government has launched an investigation into a youth detention centre where teenagers were filmed being assaulted, tear gassed and forcibly stripped naked by laughing prison guards. Footage obtained by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Four Corners programme showed a 14-year-old boy being hooded and strapped to a chair for almost two hours as part of treatment that could amount to torture according to the UN. SHARE Malcolm Turnbull, the Australian Prime Minister, said he was shocked by the abuses at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre.

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They're not your average garden variety kids, you know. They're hard to deal with kids that have been convicted of all sorts of felonies and are totally uncontrollable.

Ok they've suffered abuse in their short lives but are also giving abuse in return to innocent ppl.

They can't be let loose back into society, or low level supervision, the way they are.

Such is the conundrum.

[imastawka]

The prison officials need to be retrained though.

They seem to take sadistic pleasure in torturing these kids.

http://www.msn.com/en-au/video/watch/detention/vi-BBuSJVb?ocid=spartanntp

[davidc4430]

i dont have any answers .......

BUT......

if any of US got caught doing THAT losing our jobs would be the least of our worries.

so far 1 guy has lost his PORTFOLIO,

not his actual job, seems pretty lucky to me

[bsal6160]

lets look at WHY these (mostly likely) feral uncontrollable kids were in there in the first place before we all pass a blanket judgement.

[icyfroth]

Oh yes we know as to why.

The point is, how to control them after the "why" is the problem.

[lionrose.7]

Sorry but Australia has a shocking history of this sort of abuse, the child may be little buggers BUT no one should be tortured like that, I can see by some of the replies why this happens.

It is Against the law handed out by the law and is disgusting.

[bsal6160]

how about by making it such a NOT NICE place to end up that they never want to go back or we could pamper to the little darlings who break into houses, steal cars and bash innocent people...

[lionrose.7]

So what so they come out full of hate and more violent then before they went in OMG what sort of a person thinks torturing any body child or adult is OK.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!