Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Four billion bucks: That’s what Los Angeles County has confirmed it will pay ‘to settle nearly 7,000 claims of ‘horrific’ child sexual abuse related to their juvenile facilities and foster care homes over a period of decades,’ according to a BBC report. ‘Survivors say they were abused and mistreated by staff in institutions meant to protect them — with many of the claims linked to MacLaren Children’s Center, a shelter that permanently closed in 2003.’ A lawyer for the plaintiffs offered the perfectly apt cliché, of foxes and hen house: ‘they were raping boys and raping girls.’ Meanwhile, something odd’s going on with the ‘children in cages’ issue.” (05/02/52)