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I wrote 'Sweat and Tears' to raise two issues. One of them was an attack on the 'forced fem' trope, which Dorothy has slapped down with her short-short. The other was as a condemnation of the abuse that has gone on for so long in care homes and places for young offenders.

Today, the BBC put this up:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-25834368

Boys lying at the foot of a flight of stairs asking other boys to jump on their legs, hoping that breaking one would get them moved away.

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I Know This Is Not BC's Favourite Vibe

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But this is totally sickening. This institutional abuse (abuse is not a strong enough word)....torture...ruined the lives of young children and has never been punished severely enough. We abhor and castigate the Gestapo for what they did in Nazi Germany, but these people were just as bad and they get away with light sentences (in my opinion).

Where is our outrage?

Joanne

Medomsley

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Where is our outrage?
As well as Medomsley and Bryn Estyn, remember Elm Guest House and the Kincora Boys Home - this has been going on in various parts of the UK for decades.
Right now most people's outrage in England seems to be aimed at the unfortunate inhabitants of James Turner Street in Birmingham - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/benefits-street-uk-... - or imaginary hoards of Bulgarian and Rumanian "benefit scroungers." Unfortunately too many of us trust the authorities and the media ...

Distant Sunshine

Too weary and worn out - too little, too late!

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Too weary and worn out to comment.

Before 1965, these 'institutions' were an integral part of 'Her Majesty's Prison Service'. (There's a sickening misnomer if ever there was one!) It was and is still not possible to sue the crown or any element thereof, consequently anything that happened to kids before 1965 never even gets to court. What's the bloody point anyway, the bastards are all dead now!

I'll not say anymore! It would just re-open old wounds!

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