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The IFC team works with children from the District of Columbia who have been removed from their birth parents and placed in licensed foster homes in Maryland. The children we serve may have been left home alone or lived in deplorable home conditions; are coping with educational delays and medical neglect; many have been physically or sexually abused, and/or left with unwilling caregivers. Some children have witnessed their parents struggling with drug dependency, domestic violence, or serious emotional limitations that affect their ability to parent safely.

https://nccf-cares.org/foster-care-adoption/

This is so upsetting. The three kids charged with the crime probably never had a decent shot at a decent life. That doesn't excuse their actions, but my god the way we manage our most vulnerable kids in this country is beyond fcked. What chance do they really have?

Someone was murdered and your first reaction is to express sympathy for the murderers?

You lack critical thinking and nuance. I'm sorry you don't see this as an indictment of our youth foster care system. These are teens who don't even have a completely formed frontal lobe yet. That mixed with childhood neglect and trauma -- this is how we end up with the prison industrial complex we have today.

That doesn't mean that they don't know right from wrong or that they shouldn't be punished, but please enjoy your indignation.

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Anonymous wrote:So DCUM. Bethesda has a homicide and there’s a six-page thread…

Yep! Imagine: people want to discuss the three Whitman students (thanks to the location of their JD "facility") -- "scholars" at one of the most prestigious and highly rated public schools in the US -- who committed a heinous robbery and murder in an expensive and very safe neighborhood.

You see, since people who *live* in B-CC don't commit or tolerate these sorts of crimes, it's a story when criminals from DC are placed in Bethesda, and bring their deplorable violence with them.

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if Wright sought advice before turning himself in. It was definitely the smart move but something tells me he isn’t too bright.

Anonymous wrote:So DCUM. Bethesda has a homicide and there’s a six-page thread…

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Anonymous wrote:How does the PP know that they were in that program at NCCF? There are families living there, too.

It has been stated in multiple media articles. They were in that program, not in the family shelter. These were troubled kids from DC put in a therapeutic group home. Based on posts on another social media site at least one had been causing problems at Whitman and had beaten and robbed at least one other boy. There were red flags the placement was not working or was not sufficient for at least that one kid.

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Anonymous wrote:We need to stop building these group homes in upscale areas but of course mayor elrich is blind to that fact

NCCF was opened in 1931 when that part of Bethesda was farmland and it was not upscale either.

Anonymous wrote:How does the PP know that they were in that program at NCCF? There are families living there, too.

Anonymous wrote:How does the PP know that they were in that program at NCCF? There are families living there, too.

Anonymous wrote:This is another sad statistic. Three POC suspects. One POC victim.

This just adds to the "POCs are disproportionately in the prison system" narrative that we'll hear the BLM people talking about.

Anonymous wrote:We need to stop building these group homes in upscale areas but of course mayor elrich is blind to that fact

Anonymous wrote:How does the PP know that they were in that program at NCCF? There are families living there, too.