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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the problem:

After every arrest, Sergeant Milburn looks up the suspect’s prior contact with the criminal-justice system. He estimates that in at least half of the unit’s juvenile cases, the suspect has had previous interactions with the police as a victim—of physical or sexual abuse, for example, or of neglect by a parent or family member. Milburn searched the 12-year-old’s history, and sure enough: He’d allegedly been physically abused at 6 years old. “Most of these kids don’t stand a chance,” Milburn told me. “I can’t tell you how many times we notify parents and they say, ‘I don’t care,’ or ‘Just send his ass to Cheltenham’ ”—the county’s juvenile detention center. “That happens more times than not.”

Absolute BS. [/quote]

What do we do then?

And it just repeats because the kid who was abused at 6 and caught carjacking at 12 winds up fathering multiple kids at 16/17/18. Those kids grow up with either no father (actually preferable in this case) or a father who is in and out of jail and a terrible influence/likely abusive when he is around. And then that kid winds up on the same path.

One argument in favor of putting these kids in jail is that then they don't become parents. I'm not kidding. I've met a lot of kids in DCPS who's parents were teens when the kid was born, never married, one parent in jail or on probation or just MIA, the other parent un or underemployed, sometimes with substance abuse issues. Zero parenting skills, emotionally immature. It is a TERRIBLE life to give to an innocent kid who will be broken by it. We need to stop these kids having kids.[/quote]

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