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Youth trainer at a juvenile facility: "If I can't make a kid puke or piss in his pants on his first day, I'm not doing my job."
The near-total absence of governmental regulation and oversight of locked residential "treatment" facilities where children are warehoused closely parallels conditions in the pre-FDA days of the Wild West when itinerant pitchmen peddled fake remedies to the gullible. But there is one important distinction. When people became ill as a result of using some toxic homemade brew, the peddler who sold it would have his cart smashed and be lucky to get out of town alive. The "troubled-teen" industry runs no such risk. When their product fails, as it always does, they blame the customer, and there are no refunds. J. Riak |
Who's Watching The Kids?
Congressman George Miller (7th District, California)
introduces legislation to curb child abuse in residential treatment programs.
Bill would affect facilities both in U.S. and abroad