Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Minor sentenced to nine years for assaulting a guard three times his size

The most complex case began in 2004, when 30 days after moving to Texas, CPS removed five children from their mother and step-dad. Unable to obtain the younger child’s medication, and while the child was experiencing uncontrollable meltdowns at school, he blurted out details of an incident that occurred in WI, 18 months prior, and resolved to WI social worker’s satisfaction.

CPS removed and placed all five children in psychiatric hospitals. In 2015, the child, who made the outcry of sexual abuse in 2004, has advanced to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

As a minor, he was sentenced to nine years for assaulting a guard. We must find a way to stop prison guards from beating him, breaking his bones, denying medical care, and charging the minor child with crimes against guards, who continued to beat him. When he became an adult, the Texas Youth Commission shifted responsibility to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. How many children leave foster care via the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Department of Corrections?

As an adult, he was recently found unconscious in his jail cell --an overdose. While he was unconscious, a guard beat his head and face. He was transferred to ICU at UTMB in Galveston, unconscious, with a busted skull, and blackened eyes. He regained consciousness after a week and was unable to talk or know simple information. The Ombudsman wrote: "The Inmate refused to identify guards who assaulted him." He was unconscious!! He fought for survival from age nine, when thrust into an abusive foster care system through no fault of his own.

How will he learn to live in the real world?

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