Assaulting abusive guards results in nine additional years

In 2011, guards broke the child's arm and denied medical care, a massive investigation resulted in, "The child accepting full responsibility" for the actions of three guards. Keep in mind this child is very short in stature. Most guards are built like refrigerators.

When he had enough abuse, he turned the violence back on the guards and as a minor, he was sentenced to nine years for assaulting a guard at the Corsicana Texas Youth Commission's facility. 

With all the violence going on in Corsicana, every single Corsicana Youth entered the Texas Prison System at the age of majority. 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?

In 2011, Corsicana Texas Youth program was in extreme distress; guards having sex with clients, abuse of power, and increased violence. According to the Texas Tribune:

The campus, they wrote, “continues to pose a risk to the vulnerable youth population it serves as hazardous debris and glass are continually unearthed after rain or strong winds.” The roughly 90 youths at the facility, most of whom had been diagnosed with severe mental illnesses and who had committed replacement.

When Corsicana was finally emptied by the Texas Legislature in December 2013, many in the world of juvenile justice reform already viewed the facility as dangerous and unsalvageable. A federal Bureau of Justice Statistics report found that in 2008, 23 percent of Corsicana inmates reported having had sexual relations with staff. Violence was up as well; in 2012, the facility was responsible for 32 percent of all violent incidents in the juvenile justice agency, despite housing only 10 percent of the agency’s youths.

Texas Tribune | Closing Corsicana

Abuse in foster care

In September 2005, four of the five children returned home to their mother. These are snippets from lengthy conversations wherein the children alleged every abuse imaginable. More videos will be added of these conversations, which tell the true story of life in Texas abusive foster care system.

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?

Child accepts responsibility for guards' breaking bones

In August 2007, Judge Laura Parker gave approval for Hope4KidZ’ director to take Layne to New York for medical and psychiatric testing, freely monitored and administered by Dr. Louis Pupo and forensic psychologist Jill Jones-Soderman.

Successful in Wisconsin schools

In September 2007, Child Protective Services removed the boys from their mother’s care, citing neglectful supervision. Although approved by Judge Laura Parker, CPS prevented Hope4KidZ from obtaining the medical and psychiatric testing that responsible parents of children with disabilities obtain, to ensure an accurate diagnosis of physical, mental, environmental lead poisoning, and developmental issues, as presented by minor children. The Autism Society of San Antonio provides helpful resources.

As of Sunday, April 17, 2011, CPS denied two children with severe disabilities, complete medical and psychological evaluations, and assessments. The first requests to CPS for complete evaluations and assessments began in September 2004; when the boys were ages 9 and 11.

DFPS RESULTS:

Layne, age 15, remains locked in the Corsicana Residential Treatment Center without any progress. When the child recently accepted full responsibility for three guards dislocating his shoulder and breaking his arm in the hallway of the school, the agency was pleased to see the child take responsibility for his actions. The adults do not accept responsibility for breaking his arm, dislocating his shoulder, forcing his shoulder back into the cuff, and for refusing medical care for a broken bone that was dislocated, as in a twisted arm break.

The child’s actions? With permission, he left his classroom to retrieve a point sheet from another room. When the hallway guard engaged the 15 year old, with extreme short stature, an attempt to retrieve a point sheet resulted in three guards physically dislocating his shoulder and breaking his arm.

The child accepted full responsibility for the actions of three guards. I am certain the child did not respond well to the hall-monitor talking in the hood-kinda’ language they use at the Corsicana RTC, and the guard’s attempt to incite a child with aggressive issues worked extremely well. The child accepted full responsibility. The child was the victim of three guards assaulting him, breaking his arm, dislocating his shoulder, and the refusal to seek appropriate medical care.

Wait until you see what happens when the child is fed up with being abused and decides to fight back, with a fresh chicken bone!

Layne ~ Foster Care to Juvenile Detention to Texas Prison Systems

Taken into foster care at age 9 and placed into institutional housing, when Layne was released from foster care, he thought he had been locked up for over a year, "for fighting with my brothers." His release was short-lived because he was terrified of CPS returning and taking him and his siblings. He lived in absolute terror until the school realized the error in suspending indefinitely, a child in special education. Realizing this was a violation of the Texas Education Policies, a home-bound teacher was provided to assist Layne in attaining his Individualized Education Program.