At least four Central American immigrant children reported being sexually abused by staff members at the privately run Homestead detention center for unaccompanied minors, the Miami Herald reports.
No one went to prison for these alleged crimes. No one was prosecuted. No victim, apparently, was given the opportunity to speak to an experienced investigator from Miami-Dade Police’s sexual-crimes team.
The claims made by these children were handled within the confines of secrecy that the federal government set for the facility’s private contractor, Caliburn, as if U.S. and Florida state law didn’t exist for these children.
Here’s another example of this selective enforcement of sex offense laws:
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/fbi-senior-intelligence-analyst-caught-child-porn-fired-not-prosecuted
Senior intelligence analyst caught with child porn, lied about having it, got caught trying to use countermeasures to beat the polygraph, lied about the ages he was attracted to until he was boxed in and finally admitted he masturbated to fantasies of girls as young as 9 years.
He was fired, but not prosecuted. The law should apply to all equally, but we all know it doesn’t.
What can we as individuals and groups like F.A.C., NARSOL, ACSOL, and W.A.R do to pressure the gov’t to prosecute this man the same as they would any other private citizen? I don’t support the registry, but if we have to be on it, so should he!
Need evidence of such material on his computer. Haven’t seen a successful prosecution without it.
But without treatment, he’ll get himself in trouble again soon enough.
I agree! Last time I checked they put their pants on the same way we do-one leg at a time!
I also believe that those in authority should serve a double sentence when they are caught, because these are the individuals elected by the people to protect, prosecute, or judge, and are supposed to be of a clean nature, free from the crimes that they make judgement against, so that the unjust are not prosecuting the unjust.
I agree with David V C about the requirements for those who pass judgement on other fellow citizens but if that standard were adhered to no one would be qualified. The hope is that such tyrants and ‘murderers’…killers of hope… will get their just deserts when they face their Maker; otherwise, the world doesn’t make sense.
In a discussion of detention contractors that abused immigrant kids, I’m surprised we’re arguing about liberals. Shouldn’t we reserve our outrage for the abusers and those who let them get away with it? Especially if there are any hypocrites among them who promote registries as a means of prevention.
Tolerating child sexual abuse is neither liberal nor conservative, is it?
No more than looting and burning down a business is considered protesting. True conservatives do not condone molestation or covering it up. Conservatives call it what it is, expect the perpetrator to pay a price, and then be restored. Note I said “true conservatives”. Then there are those who are perfect while all those around them are the ‘bad guys’. Many liberals tend to try to justify criminality if its supports some sort of agenda. Then there are those conservatives and liberals in the middle who just want to live a peaceful life and help those that they can. This is based just upon my experience.
Matt, you are correct. The liberals and conservatives each have an agenda and in many cases neither is favorable to the public. When in power they can cover for each other. It all boils down to ‘control’. That control usually leads to actions that remove freedoms and can only be defined as ‘unConstitutional’. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. When we give up our freedoms there is nothing more of value to loose.
I need a Facebook account in order to comment at the source. Ugh.
Anonymous, I am not a legal scholar, but I feel it is a constitutional violation of your right to free speech that social media will not allow a group of people who are law-abiding citizens to have an account and voice their opinion. It is comparable to not allowing a group of people to us the U. S. Postal Service in the 1960’s.
We have commented for you:
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It is appalling that our federal government puts hundreds of thousands of people in this country on the punitive sex offense registry, with some people on the registry having committed the same acts as these individuals did at the detention center, and yet these individuals escape all possible federal charges and do no prison time and do not end up on the registry. This is possibly one of the greatest injustices of all time for the almost one million people on the registry.
When taken collectively, all research shows a re-offense rate (committing another sex offense) in the single digits for registrants after being caught and serving time in prison. For the hundreds of thousands who never re-offend, the punishment on the registry is for decades, if not for life. It means they are unable to vote, can’t live, work, travel, worship or even be present in certain places, having to regularly report, in person, to law enforcement to report petty changes. Their driver’s license and passport are branded with a mark of shame and a flyer prominently displayed on the internet serves as a banner inviting the lynch mobs to harm them and their family.
But if you work at a child detention center, you get a free pass by the government. All research has shown that there is no evidence to prove the registry does anything to protect children, yet we spend anywhere from 10 to 40 billion dollars per year in this country to monitor it. Approximately 90% of future sex crimes will be committed by people NOT on the registry. These adults at this privately run detention center are part of that 90% that we should be watching — not the many non-reoffending registrants. #SexOffenderLivesMatter #ReformSexOffenderLaws # SecondChances
I am sorry about the phrase “sex offenders” but it draws more views for us on social media.
Don’t be sorry about it, you should do what you feel is right and owe no one any apology regardless.
Your writings are great. May I add some things to consider? I certainly mean no offense.
Regarding your “re-offense rate (committing another sex offense) in the single digits” statement, I guarantee that almost all people read that and believe that says that Registries work.
Could you change “Approximately 90%” to “More than 90%”? And then use “90+%”? Or is “approximately 95%” better? And yet again, people will interpret that to mean that Registries work, so I feel it always has to be qualified.
Regarding saying “sex offender”, I’d just like to personally reiterate that I don’t think it should ever be used, except to say that it is wrong and to introduce another term. I’ve been dealing with this Registries crap and reading a lot about it for over 20 years and I think that phrase has never been more wrong and abused than today.
The “#SexOffenderLivesMatter” is especially troublesome. I think most people will lose their little minds over that. And it really does solidify the idea that there is a group of crazy people called “sex offenders” that a few fringe lunatics think is important to not murder. That’s about it. We saw what happened when that coffee shop owner recently said that. He was almost burned alive at the stake.
#RegistrantsLivesMatter would be a LOT better. #RegisteredLivesMatter? That sounds more interesting and would probably make more people pay attention. Maybe #PeopleForcedToRegisterMatter? Although, I feel like co-opting into the #BlackLivesMatter phrase could be troublesome regardless.
I think we have to stop saying “offender”. A different letter that was just posted on this site says “an offender already cannot comply with the existing ordinance.” People who are listed on the Registries aren’t “offenders”. They simply aren’t. How insane is it that we have people who have been living completely lawful lives for decades and we are calling them “offender”? Every time we say “offender” or “sex offender”, we are helping to legitimize that THOSE people should be treated differently and they deserve special “restrictions”.
When I write a criminal legislator or similar criminals a letter, I always use PFR. I’m lazy and it is short.
Spot on Will…
In the article it also implies that a background check would have eliminated the abuse. Also “the pervert law designed to keep perverts away from children supposedly didn’t apply” (on federal land). would seem to suggest that the perps were on the registry. Thw article sows fear and disgust and points to a functioning registry as the solution.
I agree with dropping “offender” totally. My view is that any human forced to register is a law-abiding citizen just like anyone else until such time, IF ANY, they INTENTIONALLY violate the registry law or commit another sex-based felony. I use the terms “registered citizens”, “persons forced to register”, or “humans forced to register”. “Offender” designated on-going criminality. We are NOT offenders simply because we exist.
Thank you SarahF. Greatly appreciated!!!!
Yep. Sounds about right for these Politically connected slime balls.
Doesn’t surprise me any! Law enforcement is a joke and are so corrupt that they don’t even care if anybody knows about it! They are nothing but murdering jack boot thugs.
I guess what is good for the goose is not good for the gander. Like many in power today…no wonder the liberals want it back…they want to hold everyone except themselves accountable.
Captain….Liberals????? For profit prisons and detention centers, detained immigrant children and in Florida? Your “liberals” statement cannot be any further off.
Detained immigrant children was happening under Obama and I’m truly sick of the left being in …. pardon me… PRETENDING TO BE IN denial of that.
Now then… neither party is perfect but I’ll lean more conservative (as an independent) after seeing what’s been going on in this country lately. As well as the way liberals were acting in 2016 during the election.
As for OUR mission of getting the general public to stop treating us like pariahs and the politicians to stop pushing people to worry about those WITH sex convictions while the goodie-two-shoes with NO records at all are the ones committing these crimes, well, that’s just not gonna happen in the foreseeable future.
The left is all about man hating and “just believe her” without any evidence and the right is all about “Jesus” with absolutely no forgiveness to offer.
Anyone who can access FB to read comments on articles about sex offenses can click on each person’s profile who left a comment and see their bs bio usually including some type of “Child of God” or “Loves the Lord” in their profile bio. These are the same people who say “Put a bullet in them!” in the comments section. Yeah, that’s some “Christ-like” attitude, eh?
In plain English: We are screwed.
Never give up hope. When hope is lost there is no recovery. I am convinced that one day…and soon…our politicians will wake up to their failures. We just have to hang in there and keep “educating”.