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Title: Embattled AG now accused in sex scandal 'cover-up'
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URL Source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54861
Published: Mar 26, 2007
Author: Jerome R. Corsi
Post Date: 2007-03-26 12:13:09 by ...
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Attorney General Gonzales among officials who allegedly ignored abuse of minor boys Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, both already under siege for other matters, are now being accused of failing to prosecute officers of the Texas Youth Commission after a Texas Ranger investigation documented that guards and administrators were sexually abusing the institution's minor boy inmates. Among the charges in the Texas Ranger report were that administrators would rouse boys from their sleep for the purpose of conducting all-night sex parties. Ray Brookins, one of the officials named in the report, was a Texas prison guard before being hired at the youth commission school. As a prison guard, Brookins had a history of disciplinary and petty criminal records dating back 21 years. He retained his job despite charges of using pornography on the job, including viewing nude photos of men and women on state computers. The Texas Youth Comission controversy traces back to a criminal investigation conducted in 2005 by Texas Ranger Brian Burzynski. The investigation revealed key employees at the West Texas State School in Pyote, Texas, were systematically abusing youth inmates in their custody. Burzynski presented his findings to the attorney general in Texas, to the U.S. Attorney Sutton, and to the Department of Justice civil rights division. From all three, Burzynski received no interest in prosecuting the alleged sexual offenses. "This case demonstrates that a partisan political agenda, with Karl Rove in an orchestrating role, has penetrated the Justice Department and subverted fair-minded administration of the law," Matt Angle, director of the Lone Star Project, told WND. It's just the latest controversy for Sutton, Gonzales and the Bush administration's direction of the Justice Department. Earlier, Sutton's decisions to prosecute two Border Patrol agents and Deputy Sheriff Gil Hernandez were criticized as having been influenced by the intervention of the Mexican government. Gonzales is under heavy congressional pressure in the controversy over the recent forced resignations of eight U.S. attorneys. At issue is whether the Bush administration is directing the Justice Department to pursue politically motivated prosecutions at the expense of fair or even-handed law enforcement. In the Texas Youth Commission scandal, Texas Ranger official Burzynski received a July 28, 2005, letter from Bill Baumann, assistant U.S. attorney in Sutton's office, declining prosecution on the argument that under 18 U.S.C. Section 242, the government would have to demonstrate that the boys subjected to sexual abuse sustained "bodily injury." Baumann wrote that, "As you know, our interviews of the victims revealed that none sustained 'bodily injury.'" Baumann's letter continued, adding a definition of the phrase "bodily injury," as follows: "Federal courts have interpreted this phrase to include physical pain. None of the victims have claimed to have felt physical pain during the course of the sexual assaults which they described." Baumann's letter further suggested that insufficient evidence existed to prove the offenders in the Texas Youth Commission case had used force in their alleged acts of pedophilia: "A felony charge under 18 U.S.C. Section 242 can also be predicated on the commission of 'aggravated sexual abuse' or the attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse. The offense of aggravated sexual abuse is proven with evidence that the perpetrator knowingly caused his victim to engage in a sexual act (which can include contact between the mouth and penis) by using force against the victim or by threatening or placing the victim in fear that the victim (or any other person) will be subjected to death, serious bodily injury or kidnapping. I do not believe that sufficient evidence exists to support a charge that either Brookins or Hernandez used force to cause victims to engage in a sexual act." Baumann's letter went so far as to suggest that the victims may have willingly participated in, or even enjoyed, the acts of pedophilia involved: "As you know, consent is frequently an issue in sexual assault cases. Although none of the victims admit that they consented to the sexual contact, none resisted or voiced any objection to the conduct. Several of the victims suggested that they were simply 'getting off' on the school administrator." Baumann's letter also rejected Burzynski's charges that the administrators at the Texas Youth Commission facility in West Texas had used their position of authority to force the inmates to participate in the sexual acts or that the administrators had lengthened the sentences of the boys to retain willing participants or punish those reluctant to participate. Baumann wrote: "In order for the government to be successful in a criminal prosecution, it would be essential for us to show that the victim was in fact victimized. Most of the victims were aware of the power that the school principal and assistant superintendent held over them, but none were able to describe retaliative acts committed by either the principal or assistant superintendent. Although it is apparent that many students were retained at West Texas State School long after their initial release date, it would be difficult to prove that either Mr. Brookins or Mr. Hernandez prevented their release." On Sept. 27, 2005, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division declined prosecution in a letter written to Lemuel Harrison, the Texas Youth Commission superintendent at the West Texas State School. In that letter, Justice Department section chief Albert Moskowitz wrote that "evidence does not establish a prosecutable violation of the federal criminal civil rights statutes." Angle maintains the decision not to prosecute was purely political. "The U.S. attorney's office in Texas actually prepared indictments in this case," Angle told WND. "But when the word came from Washington, that's when Baumann wrote his letter declining prosecution. Sutton's office dropped the matter on the desk of the local district attorney, but nobody from Sutton's office said 'if you can’t go on this case, we'll help you out.'" WND asked Angle to explain how politics drove the decisions not to prosecute. "If you read the letters from Sutton's office or from DOJ, it's really amazing what abuse they describe and then downplay as not being serious," Angle explained. "They describe systematic and widespread abuse of juveniles who were held in these facilities by the people who were administering these facilities, and they acknowledge this fully, yet they determine that the evidence is not sufficient to warrant federal prosecution." Angle explained to WND that he found both letters shocking. "The letters justify not pursuing these cases because, number one, there is no evidence that any of these juveniles felt physical pain while they were being assaulted, and the letters use the word 'assaulted,'" he said. "And then also, they rejected prosecution because none of these juveniles stated in the investigations that they resisted and objected, which of course the facts of the report show to be the case. This case developed right in the middle of Governor Perry's 2006 re-election campaign. While Texas is a Republican state, and the Republicans expected to win, still at that time, Governor Perry was facing an election challenge from Carole Strayhorn, a third party candidate who was also a former Republican comptroller in Texas." He continued: "I would speculate that the political powers in Texas and Washington in the Republican Party were not interested in this sex scandal coming to light. Sutton and Gonzales let their political responsibilities outstrip their legal responsibilities, and as a result you had children who were in danger of sexual abuse and were left in that danger." Angle says that while the U.S. Justice Department and Texas attorney general's office were not prosecuting in this case, they were actively pursuing minor voter fraud issues with only a handful of allegations to go on. On March 2, 2007, Governor Rick Perry appointed Jay Kimbrough, his former staff chief and homeland security director, to serve as "special master" to lead an investigation into the Texas Youth Commission sex abuse scandal. Shortly thereafter, the commission stopped a hiring practice that had allowed convicted felons to work as administrators in the system. The practice had involved a requirement that prior criminal records be destroyed for employees hired by the commission. On March 17, 2007, the entire Texas Youth Commission governing board resigned. The Texas Youth Commission is the state's juvenile corrections agency, charged "with the care, custody, rehabilitation, and reestablishment in society of Texas' most chronically delinquent or serious juvenile offenders." Inmates are felony-level offenders between the age of 10 and 17 when they are committed. The commission can maintain jurisdiction over offenders until their 21st birthdays. The Lone Star Project is organized as a political research and policy analysis project of the Lone Star Fund, a federal political action committee organized in Texas. The Lone Star Project has aggressively investigated alleged political abuses within the Texas Republican Party, including playing a leading role in investigating the activities of former Rep. Tom DeLay in the redistricting controversy in Texas. Bill Baumann was the lead prosecutor in another controversial case. In a case eerily reminiscent of the controversial jailing of Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos while the illegal-alien drug-smuggler they wounded went free, Texas Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez is imprisoned for a year for an altercation with illegal aliens. Baumann urged he get the maximum seven-year sentence.
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I heard that Jeff Gannon and Talon news were now probing the matter. Ted Haggard and Foley are also getting in touch with the parties.
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The good news is that virtually all of Scumbya's supporters are dying of AIDS.
Repederasts
Seriously, this tells me that the DOJ scandal is both real and very, very bad. The GOP is using gay sex to bring down Gonzales. The rubes will remember "gay sex" and forget about the much more serious perverting of justice that these guys were attempting. The guy who wrote this is one of the main swiftboaters and a loyal GOP mouthpiece.
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WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE IN THE WORDS OF BILL BENNETT? WHERE IS THE JUSTICE? WHY DO THESE PERVERTS CONTINUE TO OPERATE WITH IMPUNITY?
. Very interesting. I saw World Net Daily and said, WTF? This is sort of like Mothers for Peace attacking Dennis Kucinich.
Wow. What a bunch of unenlightened troglodytes. They think that just because they enjoyed cornholing each other as children, that everyone else is just as sick.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
Note that it's Jerome Corsi, of Swiftboats notoriety, doing the reporting. Far right bailing on Gonzales? There was a report a few days ago that Rep. Armey reported on this scandal to Gov. Perry of Texas all the way back in 2001. I suspect this was already going on when Bush was governor. Would explain Gonzales wanting to cover the matter up.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Franklin cover-up II
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Sex offender fired from job as youth prison guard in Texas, as all facilities are investigated.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
This is a story by Corsi, a high ranking Republican shill, in one the GOP's primary propaganda outlets. The GOP sprang this story on its base. It's an relatively old story so I don't think they did it to innoculate the base against it. Seems that the GOP wants the 29% to remember that Gonzales went down for gay sex, and not for some complicated and weird story about the DOJ. As someone over on Kos remarked, nothing sticks in the mind of a GOP dupe like gay sex. Given the risk inherent in this move, the story might be related back to Bush himself, it sounds like the DOJ scandal is much bigger than what we are seeing right now. Note that Tony Snow, another guy who knows the score, just used his elective surgery to jump ship.
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It's amazing. At least WND fairly reported this. And now we know what hold they have over Gonzo. Seriously, everyone they use must have something they can hold over them, EXACTLY like street gangs.
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
yeah, but why is it that the hardcore dupes still continue to support their REpederast homo leaders. maybe i should ask BAC.
Lest we forget. http://www.voxfux.com/features/bush_child_sex_coverup/article_archive.htm
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Y'know, if anyone ever writes a book with ALL this stuff in it, future generations will wonder why we didn't just string the lot of them up. They seemingly can't go 45 minutes without committing some sort of outrage. Older Republican: You know, son, here in the GOP we separate the men from the boys. Senate page: Yeah, with crowbars.
Could this TYC scandal be their way of bringing Bush himself down?
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
hoo boy...problems
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
Interesting idea. Given the risk inherent in this move, the story might be related back to Bush himself, it sounds like the DOJ scandal is much bigger than what we are seeing right now. I know that's what the indications are, but I still don't see what it is. Note that Tony Snow, another guy who knows the score, just used his elective surgery to jump ship. What a coward. ;P
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"I'm not going to resign. I'm going to stay focused on protecting our kids" Gonzales: 'I'm Not Going to Resign'. A poster on LP reminds us of what Gonzales was saying in St. Louis the other day.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
they're absolute depraved filth. this country is run by satanists.
ok, i just wanna know where God is. this guy ought to have been struck by lightening on the spot.
Just like Foley, who was in charge of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus.
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Related article: Sex abuse of juveniles in Texas covered up
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
TYC abuse dates back to 1999. And we know who was governor of Texas in 1999, don't we?
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
And we know who was governor of Texas in 1999, don't we? Yes, the son of the man who was VP when Paul Rodriguez wrote an article in the Washington Times about "call boys". http://www.fathers.ca/political_elite_sex_rings.htm "The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If this is what Rove has on Gonzo to keep him in line, what do they have on Yoo to say that the President can torture children? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo This raises a lot of questions about the entire nest of vipers. How about Addington? What do they have on him?
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sutton is an example of the kind of U.S. Attorney they don't fire.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
The last child left the state-licensed Away From Home Inc. shelter in Nixon, Texas, on March 7, amid an FBI probe into reported sexual abuse of young detainees, all illegal immigrant children traveling alone. It was unclear whether the federal government would cancel its contract with Away From Home or whether it would ever be used again, said Joshua Trent of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which handles juvenile immigrants. Like the scandal involving allegations of sexual abuse at state juvenile prisons, prosecution has been delayed by government confusion over which agency should handle the case. AP: Immigrant children removed from shelter . So it's not just juvenile prisons in Texas.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Absolutely beyond belief. These are the same friggin bunch of bureaucrats, among many others, who can come into one's private residence and remove children based on anomyous phone calls, and yet they can use juveniles as sex toys with no regard to consequences. Is this one sick society, or what? Where are the parents of these boys? Why aren't the Rangers forcing their way into this hellhole? God have mercy on this nation because our 'leaders' sure as hell won't and don't.
Texas, Addressing Sexual Abuse Scandal, May Free Thousands of Its Jailed Youths .
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
I've noticed that something about the GOP macho aspect really attracts closet queers. I think a lot of guys horrified by mixed urges gravitate to the GOP because of its anti-gay stance - it provides cover and outside control for something they feel but want to deny.
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Sure seems like that is a big realm of possibility/reality.
I find it unbelievable--and I mean that truly--that a state could have an incarcerated youth to staff rate of 14 to 1 THAT IS OVER THE NATIONAL AVERAGE by I can't remember that ratio--continues to sit its ass on its thumb and essentially just flap the jaws! No doubt, we are not talking about 'saints' here, but for cryin out loud, these kids are as young as 10 years old! Surely there is a state compelling interest here--especially considering they have interrupted parental control and possession. I'd love to be on a jury where family members were being tried for taking 'the law' into their own hands by taking care of some of these bastards. Ha! They'd be for cleaning up their filthy systems RIGHT NOW! Not some maybe 10 - 20 years down the road!
At least those who have had an overnight stay in the Lincoln bedroom. ;0)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Because if we put a bullet in the brainpans of every pedophile and sicko, we wouldn't have a government left.
Dying for old bastards, and their old money, isn't my idea of freedom.
We figured out a while back that it would be something which appeared on the radar screen from out of the blue and not necessarily one of the many scandals which have graced the news in the past. Any of them would be enough reason to hang nearly the entire administration. But, to nail Bush, they would have to go back to something previous to his first term in the Oval Office. Thanks for your heads up on this subject. We could be seeing the pressure mounting quickly on this. There is more than one way to skin a cat, or bring down a presidency. You can bet the PTB have plenty on Dumbya if they wish him to become another Nixon and bow out quietly.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Corsi has a new article on this up today: Teen sex scandal ignored by AG, others for 2 years: Probe widened, involving hundreds of complaints of sexual abuse in system.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Texas authorities are investigating allegations that pedophiles on the TYC staff conspired to recruit and hire other pedophiles to engage in criminal acts of forced sex with the minor inmates. But, it had to go higher than just the immediate TYC employees.
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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#5. To: lodwick, Esso (#2)
Are they ALL fudge-packers?
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Seriously, this tells me that the DOJ scandal is both real and very, very bad. The GOP is using gay sex to bring down Gonzales. The rubes will remember "gay sex" and forget about the much more serious attempt at perverting justice that these guys were attempting. The guy who wrote this is one of the main swiftboaters and a loyal GOP mouthpiece.
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Several of the victims suggested that they were simply 'getting off' on the school administrator."
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Also, other records show Perry's office routinely sent written complaints from parents about their children's treatment in TYC facilities to the agency for self-investigation. A complaint of sexual abuse involving students was forwarded to Perry in 2001 by then-U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Denton.
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WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE IN THE WORDS OF BILL BENNETT? WHERE IS THE JUSTICE? WHY DO THESE PERVERTS CONTINUE TO OPERATE WITH IMPUNITY?
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As someone over on Kos remarked, nothing sticks in the mind of a GOP dupe like gay sex.
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Franklin cover-up II
#18. To: ALL, JEROME CORSI ON ALEX JONES TALKING ABOUT THIS NOW (#17)
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Given the risk inherent in this move, the story might be related back to Bush himself, it sounds like the DOJ scandal is much bigger than what we are seeing right now.
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Seems that the GOP wants the 29% to remember that Gonzales went down for gay sex, and not for some complicated and weird story about the DOJ. As someone over on Kos remarked, nothing sticks in the mind of a GOP dupe like gay sex.
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Y'know, if anyone ever writes a book with ALL this stuff in it, future generations will wonder why we didn't just string the lot of them up. They seemingly can't go 45 minutes without committing some sort of outrage.
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"I'm not going to resign. I'm going to stay focused on protecting our kids"
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http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=48816
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#29. To: aristeides, angle (#28)
TYC abuse dates back to 1999.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, both already under siege for other matters, are now being accused of failing to prosecute officers of the Texas Youth Commission after a Texas Ranger investigation documented that guards and administrators were sexually abusing the institution's minor boy inmates.
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Dozens of child immigrants in a federal shelter in south Texas have been moved out amid allegations that a staff member sexually abused the youngsters.
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#37. To: aristeides (#34)
#38. To: Esso (#4)
virtually all of Scumbya's supporters are dying of AIDS.
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#40. To: aristeides (#20)
Could this TYC scandal be their way of bringing Bush himself down?
#41. To: BTP Holdings (#40)
The Texas juvenile justice sexual abuse scandal – in which Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton are accused of failing to take action – is a broader scandal that was covered up for two years, involving hundreds of serious complaints and investigations against dozens of staff members, according to officials.
#42. To: aristeides, BTP Holdings (#41)
Emerging evidence suggests the scandal was systematic and statewide, perpetrated by a criminal conspiracy of staff employees.
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