6-Year Old Girl Sexually Abused in Arizona (ICE) Detention Facility - Polidicks

https://www.thenation.com/article/six-year-old-girl-sexually-abused-immigrant-detention-center/ The girl, who is only identified by the initials D.L., and her mother had been fleeing gang violence in their native Guatemala. According to the family, the pair entered the United States at a point of entry in El Paso, Texas, on May 24, where they presented border patrol authorities with paperwork claiming that they had “credible fear” that returning to Guatemala would result in harm. On May 26, government officials separated D.L. from her mother and sent her to Casa Glendale, a shelter outside of Phoenix operated by Southwest Key Programs. It was there that the alleged abuse occurred. On June 11, D.L.’s father received a phone call from Southwest Key explaining that a boy had fondled his daughter and other girls. According to family spokesperson Mark Lane, D.L.’s father was told not to worry because Southwest Key was changing some of its protocols and that such abuse would not happen again. [...] Lane says that D.L.’s father asked to speak with a social worker, but despite promises from the facility, he never heard from one. On June 22, Southwest Key again contacted D.L.’s father and informed him that the same boy initially cited for abuse had hit and fondled D.L. again. According to Lane, D.L.’s father asked how the facility could allow this to happen, and the woman on the phone responded that she was only calling him to advise him that it had happened, that she didn’t have permission to say anything else, and he would have to speak with the director. Earlier this year, the ACLU released a report, based on 30,000 pages of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, that described hundreds of cases of abuse of immigrant children in US custody between 2009 and 2014. “I hugged her, I was crying. She didn’t recognize me,” the mother said. [...] She behaved like she was still in detention. She wouldn’t touch me, hug me or kiss me.“[...] "It lasted for a couple of days(;) she didn’t know I was her mom. She thought I was another social worker.” [...] "She is still behaving following the rules of the detention center, she doesn’t let them touch her, she doesn’t touch them. She wakes up at 6, and bathes and eats. She behaves like she is programmed.” "Please don’t return me to Guatemala, I don’t want to go back to that place where I have to sleep alone with the other kids(," the child said to her mother, according to her mother). Absolutely disgusting. These detention centers need to be shut down or entirely reorganized. Also, what the bullshit is with them entering at a valid point of entry, presenting their Asylum papers right then and there and then still the child was separated from the mother? Why in the world was the child who was sexually abusing her not immediately moved to somewhere else? Who's even keeping watch on these kids? Is anyone keeping watch on these kids?

Abomination, complete abomination

Imagine not being old enough to not understand the world at all you've been taken from the only people you're familiar with and depend on You're in a strange place and have no idea where you are or how to get home and that's not even the tip of the iceberg

“I hugged her, I was crying. She didn’t recognize me,” the mother said. [...] She behaved like she was still in detention. She wouldn’t touch me, hug me or kiss me.“[...] "It lasted for a couple of days(;) she didn’t know I was her mom. She thought I was another social worker.” [...] "She is still behaving following the rules of the detention center, she doesn’t let them touch her, she doesn’t touch them. She wakes up at 6, and bathes and eats. She behaves like she is programmed.” This would have made any other president (except in wartime) resign in disgrace, just another foul act among hundreds in the current administration.

Our children are going to despise us.

The fact that this happened to one person is bad enough, nevermind THOUSANDS of kids is monstrous

Our generation isn't running the country

Trump is the worst President in the history of the United States. Anyone who wants to claim otherwise will have to justify concentration camps for children.

It's not going to matter because it's happening under our watch. We're going to be apologizing for this shit forever.

Why are they doing what's tantamount to physical and mental torture to children. This has absolutely no benefit to anyone except pedos and Nazis. And this stuff happened in the Obama admin as well

Yes, but it happened far less because we weren't just mass incarcerating people while also separating the parent from the child. For a quick view on why that makes it automatically worse in every dimension, this six year old girl was told it was her responsibility to not be sexually molested again.

The President is the son of racist, anti Catholic, KKK scum, but he's also barely functional as a person and is a puppet of whoever spoke to him last, who particularly authorized this? Was it Sessions, Miller or someone else

The smart money is on Miller bringing it up and fostering it - but Sessions is just as racist as Miller and authorized it.

So nice how a man literally named after Confederates and deemed too racist to be a judge in the 80s is now the most powerful law enforcement officer and lawyer in the country. I apologize on behalf of all people like me who share a state with him.

and they should.

It's too bad death by firing squad isn't a thing anymore. I'd love seeing Trump put against a wall to answer for his crimes.

Half of the country (40%) supports the man responsible for this and more. Americans are the most brainwashed people on the planet.

"But Obama had the camps when he was president" "Ok, so why hasn't Trump shut them down then?" "Because Obama didn't shut them down." "So why wont Trump shut them down now?" "Obama." mentally breaks.

Remind me why we shouldn’t compare the administration to Nazis and these ‘detainment’ centers to concentration camps?

Because it hurts the alt right's feelings

What the fuck

Large percentages of Americans supported slavery, Native American genocide, Jim Crow laws, but Fox News was specifically created so that a future Nixon would have the public support not to resign.

I seriously can't believe this shit. What is wrong with this Country.

It's depressingly predictable that t_d's response was "wtf I love child rape now". Zero out the military budget and spend it with mental health care, tens of millions of American citizens are in critical need of cult deprogramming immediately. Before America renames itself Gilead.

What would happen if a younger GOP politician outright said they want what's in Handmaid's Tale, Bioshock Infinite etc to happen and are working toward it

At least 25% on national surveys would say that it's better than letting Democrats have control of the country. Because they expect Democrats to try and punish them and retaliate in exactly the ways they've been spitefully trying to fuck blue states and democrat priorities/favourite programs up since Obama. They're afraid and that's why they won't relinquish power at all costs -- including allowing Russia to interfere again and even refusing to vow not to use the fruit of hacking attempts in campaigns, while the DNC readily agreed to such a promise on behalf of all 2018 Dem campaigns.

I honestly don't think any amount of mental health care is going to help these people. They will always find a way to justify atrocities. Case in point: This isn't actually their response. The abuser in question was another child in the center, therefore they now feel justified in saying that all immigrants are rapists. Nevermind the fact that it was ICE who threw abuser and abused together in a cage.

As many as they can before they get caught.

Trump supporters are subhuman garbage.

I honestly wouldn't be too surprised if this bit us in the back down the road in some form of homegrown terrorism.