MONAHANS, Texas, April 10, 2007
Sexual Abuse Charges At Texas Youth Prison
Two Former Prison Employees Indicted; Petitions Removal Of Texas DA And County Attorney Sought
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Play CBS Video Video Overhaul At The TYC Genger Galloway's son was detained at age 15 for sexual misconduct. His mother says that he was abused repeatedly by the time he was 19 in a Texas Youth Commission home. Byron Pitts reports.
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(CBS/AP)
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John Paul Hernandez was indicted on 11 charges related to sexual contact he had with students at the West Texas State School. Ray E. Brookins was indicted on one count each of having improper sexual activity with a person in custody and having an improper relationship between a student and educator.
Texas Rangers arrested the men Tuesday. Bail was set at $600,000 for Hernandez and $100,000 for Brookins.
Meanwhile, a teacher at the state school filed a petition to oust a prosecutor criticized for not pursuing allegations of rampant sexual abuse at the youth prison.
The prosecutor filed his own petition to remove a county attorney who is among his critics in a scandal that has seen the state's juvenile detention system overhauled.
Patsy Elkins, a teacher at the school, filed the petition in Pecos to remove Ward County District Attorney Randall W. Reynolds on grounds of incompetence and official misconduct.
About 15 minutes later, Reynolds filed his petition in Monahans to remove Ward County Attorney Kevin Acker. Reynolds alleges Acker overstepped his legal authority by demanding that Reynolds resign or be forced from office.
Reynolds has been under fire since the allegations about the West Texas State School were made public earlier this year. According to an Associated Press analysis of state court filings, he declined to prosecute most cases about the school that were sent to his office in 2005 and 2006.
Reynolds issued a news release saying he found it ironic that the state attorney general's office had apparently assigned five to 10 attorneys and staff to the grand jury investigation, while he had been criticized "as a part-time country DA ... for not doing it all in the time the media deemed appropriate."
Acker said Reynolds' petition against him was retaliation.
"I gave him a chance to resign," Acker said.
Elkins didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.
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- The laws are on the books against non-consensual sex: those are called RAPE. What is incredible is that rape to the state authorities is merely an opportunity to incarcerate John Q. Public over kids in the home or contact with kids at school or in public.
WARDS of the state are the same as kids in the home....and the 'responsible parent' and those who observe or are aware of the abuse...well, the other standard seems to kick in...only John Q. Public because as a slave...they have to work for the state...
But taking someone off of the State payroll...??? Big no-no... - Reply to this comment
- And the point of this story is.....what? *** goes on in prison? This we know. *** goes on between teens and adults? We know this too. Don't tell anyone, but it even goes on in public schools between teachers and students.
This story made it on to CBS' website because it occured in TEXAS. CBS/MSM hates Bush. Will certain bedwetting, liberal, Bush haters infer that somehow this is related to Gonzales/Chaney/Bush? Absoultely. - Reply to this comment
- The sexual abuse with these children is based mainly in CONTROL & POWER OVER SOMEONE COMPLETELY. For the most part, *** is just an added perk for some of these guards and politicians. I can fully understand when this gets rolling and the whistle blowing starts and as the you-know-what starts its descent down hill off the ivory towers, many of these guys will find out FIRST hand how these children felt, and for that, I have absolutely NO SYMPATHY. Some of those guards are gonna take a long trip up the Hershey Highway and NOT come back, or perhaps they had that in mind all along. I have a list of names of some whom I suspected were abusing children when my son was a guest of the waste state of texass, thought about at this point just posting them on the internet but now, think I will just hang on to them and see who's cage I can rattle the hardest. Mr. Cyers & Lt. Morgan know just what I mean, eh guys? You sweating yet? LOLOLOL
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- How long has this been covered up? years and years and years...but in defence of the State of Texas, we are not all like this. This could have happened in any state. And we are not all pedifiles and we don't have *** with our livestock. I grew up 20 miles from this facility, and I too find this out right disgusting and I hope they punish ALL involved with this These children are already living with the consequences of their actions that brought them to the TYC, now they have to deal with the pervs who took advantage of the situation. It's just sick!
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- When my son was "held over" for an investigation, I contacted Gonzo's office many MANY times about what I had seen, both in pictures and audio, I was told to "get off their backs" or they would take my son out of the juvenile system and place him in an adult facility. which of course is supposedly illegal in Texass. The unspoken law there is, "You don't s h i t where you eat." Prof. Keikbushe from UTPB used to work for wackenhutt and would not discuss why he quit, but I suspected due to his demeanor about it, this investigation was the start was the reason. Texass, where STUPIDITY is the religion, and IGNORANCE the way of life. Look for my book about what REALLY goes on in the lone star local politics and legal system, it is both humorous and scary, and true.
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- How much you want to bet?
PRIVATIZED guards.
Profits means warm bodies - more lower income children arrested as they are profit STOCK.
inferior hiring / lower standards. -- wackenhutt is used by most public funding for PRIVATIZED cheapness. You hire cheap service, screen less and yep - your stock suffers. Ask martin andersons' parents what it takes (7 private citizens beating your child to death and shoving ammonia tabs UP HIS NOSE -)
Less quality food, less medical services and what could be more convenient FINANCIALLY *(and profitable) but to house them in "camp facilities*....
Who is administrating this particular "youth JAIL?" odds are someone making a profit and not doing the job. - Reply to this comment
- I think they better dig a little deeper I am sure there are more than two perverts working at that institution.
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- Gosh, looks like our fine attorney general, Alberto Gonzales gets another gold star for his actions in Texas (or inactions in this case) Texas, the gift that just keeps on giving.
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- The overall epidemic of this teen boui thang is to make you males controlable females. This type of psyop has been used by the Spartans, Roman Catholic Church and other powers. Once running, it runs on autocycle...lol.
Din't think it works? How about the Howard Dean screem? Or other irrational things that would make one guy ickey to another guy? That type of looks or societal embarassment used to only work on females. Also causes introversion and societal self paranoia like a women. Neo-cons and neo-libs are a bunch of gossipy biaches. Along time ago, it would be male-ly cool that Bush Sr. barfed on the leader of Japan.
Real men used to look out to science, mechanics, education, truth, honor, pride.... Now you are just a bunch of dumb broads. - Reply to this comment
- I guess those prison guards did like the movie sleepers. I think they should publicly castrate them in front of those boys.
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- This isn't just going on @ TYC....it's rampant within the entire TDCJ system. Thye've known it for years and have ignored it.
A simple study of statistics on HIV and Hepatitis proves it.
I feel for those who've come forward, because just like sexual abuse, retaliation is another thing that prison officials "know nothing about"-- - Reply to this comment
- This is so atypical of Texas. In that state they have so many cows and heifers trained to back up to the tree stumps they hardly ever have to rape little boys. That role is mostly left to Christian sky-pilots.
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- one count each? What a load of ***, they were SYSTEMATICALLY ABUSING BOYS in their care, and there were more than just two of them doing it. This is just whitewash over what really happened there, the mass media is covering for a bunch of pedophiles. How disgusting, if you're still paying for television call tomorrow and have that trash turned off.
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- Embattled AG now accused in teen *** scandal 'cover-up'
Attorney General Gonzales among officials who allegedly ignored abuse of minor boys
Posted: March 25, 2007
9:49 p.m. Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
) 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
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 teenage 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 *** parties.
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.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54861 - Reply to this comment
- Yep this is the one I've been talking about... this article doesn't even touch on the whole story, they were systematically molesting boys there. Totally rotten from the top of the prison structure on down... Gonzales REFUSED to prosecute them.
waynemadsenreport.com has been exposing these pedophiles for awhile now, check it out.
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Is this the one that some poster here keep talking about, that is (according to that poster) linked to Gonzales?
It is horrible when the DA ignores this stuff - and I don't buy his, 'poor 'lil country DA' excuses. He had plenty of time - now a bunch of attorneys and staff are needed to clean up the mess he's been ignoring for the past several years.
Posted by SusanHelit at 04:29 PM : Apr 10, 2007
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- Gonzales ignored this too, he needs to be removed as well...
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- I theorize that Jodi Foster is the missing link in this evolution.
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- Isn't this teenage boy stuff(pun intendeded) getting a bit out of hand in the good Christian US and A? In a coutry where an attack on girls is all most good news, you are in sad shape.
Greek Spartans indeed!
I suggest all males between 10 and 25 must practice Hijab. Or if Darwin is correct, the ascending colon may evolve to become a womb and those undigestible seeds may produce more fruits. - Reply to this comment
- You read in one story the Texas legislature passed a law requiring steroid testing of young athletes- Their pretense of concern for the young people in Texas when you see the state can't even take care of this mess.
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- Is this the one that some poster here keep talking about, that is (according to that poster) linked to Gonzales?
It is horrible when the DA ignores this stuff - and I don't buy his, 'poor 'lil country DA' excuses. He had plenty of time - now a bunch of attorneys and staff are needed to clean up the mess he's been ignoring for the past several years. - Reply to this comment
