God Help the Kids

[tommy.irene]

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

[debra9275]

• Chameleon .Dylan was10 years old when he first went inside. I can't help wondering if he'd been given some direction and self worth instead of being treated like trash whether his life would've been any different!. something we'll never know. I still can't agree that the treatment of the kids is right,  so we'll have to agree to disagree on that... Totally agree with your post on the funding though

[lionrose.7]

Super nova, exactly a bloody disgrace, how any one can say treatment like that is ok has no feelings at all.

It was all over the news here in NZ.

 I think some of the people here have commented with out seeing those shocking pictures, ok the kids did some thing wrong but those guards are whose then animals, sadists

[freshwater-2]

Assuming thatt the detainees are aboriginal, which it appears they are......

I suspect that the same protocol exists in Australia as it does in the USA, where the prison population is high for African Americans.

A black person there s jailed for an offence for which a white person receives a fine and a good behaviour bond.

If I was black, both here andi in the USA, iI would be be full of anger too.

Racism is rampant in both societies.

I lived in the USA during the Washington riots.  And if I was black at that time in history  I would have been out there with them.

Until you understand what other races have to deal with from the day they are born, you have no right to pass judgement on their behaviour as a result of this.

Why do you think the suicide rates among young aborigines is an appallingg 5% ?

[the_great_she_elephant]

I agree with you absolutely Freshwater, but I feel the point so many people are mising  is that the shock and disgust felt over this has nothing to do with the children themselves, what they have done or how feral they may be,

It is the behaviour of the perpetrators that is under scrutiny.

Those who opposed the death penalty were not 'pandering' to murderers

Those who voiced their disgust at  what happened in Abou Ghraib were not asserting that the inmates were all innocent of any wrongdoing.

Those who deplored the use of waterboarding  were not defending terrorists. 

The basic truth is, there are some practices which are simply not acceptible in a civilized society and they cannot be excused or justified by  the character of the victims. 

[freshwater-2]

A great post, She-El.   It says it all.

[icyfroth]

The next question is:

Where are these feral kids going to be held  now that Don Dale Correctional Centre has been closed?

It's not like they can be sent home with a slap on the wrist.

Most of them are too damaged to be released into the community.

[lionrose.7]

Children go in there at 10 YEAR OLD, how does this happen, my heart weeps

[davidc4430]

with this govt manus island wouldnt be out of the question

[debra9275]

they were going to be sent to an immigratio centre but it looks like they're staying where they are now

http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/don-dale-youth-inmates-will-be-moved-to-a-former-te...

NT Government backflips on plans to move youths from Don Dale to a Territory immigration centre

THE NT Government has backflipped on plans to move youths from Don Dale to a Territory immigration centre.

Chief Minister Adam Giles said on Thursday night that the facilities at Don Dale were “good enough” and plans to move the children had been scrapped for the time being.

so, no, they're not being given a slap on the wrist and sent home

[ambercat16]

Wickham Point maybe?  It's empty now.