Sexual-abuse scandal rocks Texas juvenile prison system

[helderheid]

PYOTE, Texas Investigators say that for at least two years, some boys at a juvenile prison in West Texas were summoned from their dorms late at night.
They were taken to darkened conference rooms, offices and ball fields -- allegedly for sex with two of the institution's top administrators.

The boys told their parents, their teachers, any staff member who would listen.

A few diligent staffers took their complaints to their supervisors.

But the allegations were largely covered up until last month, when they exploded into scandal.

The number one and two officials at the Texas Youth Commission have lost their jobs over their handling of the allegations.

Prosecutors are looking into criminal charges.

Legislators are infuriated.

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http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=6187912&nav=2FH5

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[tk2kewl]

1. Texas legislators are furious?

Why? They weren't invited?

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. I know i shouldnta, but I laughed

[Ian David]

2. Can you find out how much money the abusers donated to the GOP? n/t

[helderheid]

4. If you want to snoop into that, here are their names

The two men accused of molesting boys -- Ray Brookins, an assistant superintendent who temporarily ran the place, and Principal John Paul Hernandez _ resigned in 2005 with no criminal charges.

[Beelzebud]

3. Reminds me of the movie Sleepers.

[tk2kewl]

5. God! That was one twisted tale.

:scared:

[helderheid]

7. I never knew that was what that film was about - never saw it

[Porcupine]

8. The rush to imprison people has consequences nt.

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[Ian David]

9. 2 records found in 11.4063 seconds.

Results:

2 records found in 11.4063 seconds.


Total for this search: $1,250


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Donor occupation: Texas Youth Commission
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Date


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BONE, DONNA MS
AUSTIN,TX 78731


TEXAS YOUTH COMMISSION/PSYCHOLOGIST


6/15/2004


$750


Republican National Cmte

LEWIS, BILLY JOE MRS
CROCKETT,TX 75835


TEXAS YOUTH COMMISSION


10/12/1996


$500


Turner, Jim


http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?key=casjy&txtState=TX&txtEmploy=Texas%20Youth%20Commission&txtAll=Y&Order=N



Also:


Jim Turner (politician)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

James "Jim" Turner (born February 6, 1946), American politician, was the Democratic representative for the Texas 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 until 2005.

<snip>
A fiscally conservative Democrat, Turner was a member of both the Blue Dog Coalition and the New Democrat Coalition.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Turner_%28Congressman%29

[helderheid]

10. WELL DONE!

[helderheid]

11. Wait - I'm confused (what's new?)

I don't see the two names mentioned in the article?

:shrug:

[Ian David]

12. Those are the only contributions by TX Youth Comm. employees I could find. n/t

[helderheid]

14. Gotcha - sorry! I searched their names and found nothing there.

[VelmaD]

13. I would direct people to the Texas forum

there's a good thread there with lots of links.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=180x42197

And for the record, the legislature has known about problems at TYC with understaffing and lack of training for a long time. There's also evidence that they knew about this particular incident of sexual abuse 2 years ago and did nothing about it. But as always, they don't care about fixing problems in our state agency's until it hits the newspapers.