Minors Abused in Department of Juvenile Justice Program
Some of the youth workers were having sex with the underage boys in their care. Others were smuggling drugs, money, cellphones and porn. A top administrator reportedly sent a kid to the hospital during a violent restraint, bragging: “You gonna learn; this my program.”
But if conditions at the Highlands Youth Academy in Avon Park were not exactly conducive to the rehabilitation of delinquent youths, state juvenile justice administrators were doing little to turn things around. So, on Thursday, the Polk County sheriff arrested three former top administrators, saying the charges appeared to be the only way to clean the place up.
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Some of the people that are making all the noise are the most guilty and have something to hide.
There is a lot more of this going on than we know about. The watchers are sometimes more dangerous than the offenders they are watching.