Devonia
Generally, current event cartoons have a quirky, wry sense of poking fun to open a conversation. Unfortunately, some events are bleak and startling with not a darn thing funny about them. This illustration was difficult for me to do; however, I think it is time to spotlight a conversation that moms and dads everywhere have been having a long time. How can we protect our children? Predators, gangs, perverts... now the court system?
When even under the cloak of justice, judges are accused of extorting millions from private juvenile institutions for sending children to the institution, how can we keep our children safe?
Some of the offenses were as little as swiping change from parked cars or disparaging a school principal on Facebook.
Pa. Judges Accused of Jailing Kids for Cash Yahoo! News
"I've never encountered, and I don't think that we will in our lifetimes, a case where literally thousands of kids' lives were just tossed aside in order for a couple of judges to make some money," said Marsha Levick, an attorney with the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, which is representing hundreds of youths sentenced in Wilkes-Barre.
Prosecutors say Luzerne County Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan took $2.6 million in payoffs to put juvenile offenders in lockups run by PA Child Care LLC and a sister company, Western PA Child Care LLC ...
We need to talk about this.
- Have you had similar experiences?
- What do you think should happen to these judges?
- Can you imagine anything more bleak than "serving time" for swiping change out of a parked car? When I was young, that might have fallen under the category of a child prank.
- Do you trust the court system?
- Does court tv reflect the real thing?
- Would you suspect the judge of taking money if your child or a child you knew was treated harshly? What would you do?
- Should the records of these kiddos be wiped out? Should the parents sue the courts?
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