Why is our government always caught covering up sex crimes against children?

➡ Camp Scott, a youth detention center in LA, has been shut down due to many reports of child abuse, including sexual assault. The Department of Justice found that this abuse was a big problem across many LA detention centers, leading to federal control for six years. Despite this, a 2010 investigation found that several staff members had been convicted of crimes against the children they were supposed to be looking after. Even with many changes in management and investigations, the abuse continued and the kids weren’t safe.

Camp Scott is now closed. It’s just one of several juvenile detention facilities owned by the La county probation Department, which faces thousands of allegations of abuse, including rape and sexual abuse of children. In 2006, the Department of Justice began investigating LA’s juvenile halls and camps. It revealed systemic abuse and unsafe conditions, and as a result, they were put under federal oversight for six years. An LA Times investigation in 2010 found at least eleven probation officers had been convicted of crimes or disciplined for inappropriate conduct with the youth in their care, including having sex with children in detention halls, beatings, and molestation.

Investigative reporter Richard Winton broke the story. I named some people. It took them 13 to 15 months to get rid of those people named in the LA Times as committing multiple acts of sexual assault on multiple different females. There’s been an unwillingness, it seems, to get rid of some people. I mean, they’ve known that there’s been problems with people, and yet they stay on the payroll time and time again.

Federal and state investigations found abuse across the department’s detention centers. There have been numerous occasions when outside bodies and oversight agencies have basically questioned how this place is run, and they’ve had numerous management changes, and yet they seem to be still stuck in the same pattern. The youth aren’t protected. .

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