As a result of the relationship, which the teenager ended shortly after his May 2003 release, J.H. suffered emotional problems including post-traumatic stress disorder, has undergone therapy and was prescribed medications, court papers said. Gogo said he did not know what the young man was doing now.
I don’t think the male anatomy responds well to “fear” at age 17.
It seems this guy is simply trying to get easy money.
As always we have no way of evaluating this case until we see the woman.
The jury has been seated.
Texas Juvenile Detention Centers Cope With Charges of Rape, Abuse(Monday, April 16, 2007)
Arrested at 15 for inappropriate sexual contact with a sibling, he expected to spend nine months in one of the 13 secure facilities or nine halfway houses run by the Texas Youth Commission (TYC); instead, he remained incarcerated for four years.During that period, he claims that guards deliberately placed him in a cell with a larger boy who raped him and encouraged gang members to break his jaw. He also said he was molested by a female staff member.
As his mother protested — interviewing 150 parents of other TYC inmates and petitioning legislators for changes in the system — Joseph said he was singled out.
"If your parents complain, you get your sentence extended," Genger insists.The TYC's official spokesman tends to agree with her.
"We have no confidence that these extensions have been used uniformly," said Jim Hurley, the agency's interim communications director. "We have suspicions that some of these may have been done to punish kids."
Now, in the wake of a scandal that has rocked the state of Texas, 1,100 extensions are being reviewed. On April 5, Joseph became one of 473 inmates released amid pressure from the Texas state legislature and Gov. Rick Perry.
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Two former administrators at the remote West Texas State School in Piyote were indicted on Tuesday on multiple sex abuse charges. Ex-assistant superintendent Ray Brookins and one-time principal John Paul Hernandez, both 41, are accused of molesting six youths, ages 16 to 19. Both maintain their innocence.
Surveillance Tapes Misplaced During Probe of Texas Juvenile Detention Centers(Tuesday, April 17, 2007)
(AP via Fox) HOUSTON — State investigators want to know why surveillance tapes from a troubled youth prison — allegedly showing a former guard entering a supply closet with a teenage girl — were never shown to the grand jury that cleared the guard of abusing the girl and two others.The tapes were discovered at Texas Youth Commission headquarters in Austin on Friday, nine days after the grand jury decided not to indict the former guard at the Ron Jackson facility in Brownwood.
I think this is long overdue.
Put somebody in jail, deprive them of their freedom—that’s punishment.
Rape, by officials or by proxy is barbaric— almost mohammedan.