Romney link to teen sexual & physical abuse

[upi402]

"...133 plaintiffs filed a civil suit against Romney’s Utah finance co-chair, Robert Lichfield, and his various business entities involved in residential treatment programs for adolescents....

The suit alleges that teens were locked in outdoor dog cages, exercised to exhaustion, deprived of food and sleep, exposed to extreme temperatures without adequate clothing or water, severely beaten, emotionally brutalized, and sexually abused and humiliated. Some were even made to eat their own vomit."

http://reason.com/archives/2007/06/27/romney-torture-and-teens

May not be what Alred's disclosure is about, I have no idea, but Bain's CRC is tangled in this stuff too.

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/18/dark_side_of_a_bain_success/

"Our investigation found previously unreported allegations of abuse and neglect in at least 10 CRC residential drug and teen care facilities across the country, including three I visited undercover in Utah and California. With rare exceptions, such incidents have largely escaped notice because the programs are, thanks to lax state regulations, largely unaccountable."

[Brickbat]

1. People who make money off of this kind of crap are sick. Sick and evil.

[Barack_America]

2. Even if Alred fails, the attempt will be public record, yes?

There will be a record of what court case her request pertained to?

[upi402]

3. Can you imagine the media if Obama was tied to this stuff?

If she raises these issues - raises awareness of Romney's sociopathic capitalism - she wins... we ALL win when Romney loses..

[felix_numinous]

4. K&R

Boy they love those dog cages. Sick!!!!!

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Pure evil.

"Robert Lichfield, co-chairman of Romney’s Utah finance committee owned or operated residential boarding schools for troubled teenagers where students were “subjected to physical abuse, emotional abuse and sexual abuse.”

The complaint, which plaintiffs amended and resubmitted to the court last week [week of June 14, 2007], alleges children attending schools operated by Lichfield suffered abuses such as unsanitary living conditions; denial of adequate food; exposure to extreme temperatures; beatings; confinement in dog cages; and sexual fondling.

[siligut]

6. More abuse by the people who are supposed to be helping

Why was Filer subject to such punishment? “I had less interest in school and more interest in boys and my mom was worried about me,” she says, explaining that her mother believed that the program was nothing more than a strict boarding school.

Because she has attention deficit disorder, Filer was unable to consistently follow the exacting rules, and repeated small violations were seen as ongoing defiance. “It broke my heart that my mom had no belief in me,” she says, describing how, because WWASPS had told her mother to dismiss complaints as “manipulation,” her mother ignored her pleas to come home.

Oh yes, let's give the states more control, they so obviously know what their citizens need.

Abuse and humiliation at a young age sets the individual up to be obedient and submissive, doesn't surprise me in the least that Mitt was involved with this.

[lonestarnot]

7. Involved enough to throw his precious money at it. Money he made off American backs! Where the

fuck are those tax returns?

[siligut]

8. Abused and humiliated young people make hard-working, submissive adults

And we know Mitt wouldn't care that their emotional, spiritual and intellectual growth was stunted.

[xfundy]

9. Many "religious" "help" programs have had similar honest reviews.

Or, actually, true stories reported by inmates therein.

Hey! Antisocial? Got some sexual issues you're repressed 'cuz BabyJesus™ doesn't like them, or they might prohibit you from entering Planet Kolob? Or, just like to "punish" people, as a mean kid does to ants under a magnifying glass? Or just a sadistic asshole? Boy, are YOU in the right place! Put on your Armor of God™ and fuck others over, beat the shit out of them, humiliate them, bend them to your will! Because YOUR will is obviously GOD'S™ will! Cuz you couldn't do NUTHIN' without GOD!!

This kind of abuse has gone on for YEARS, but, as in most things, everybody "knows" Christians™ can do no harm! They'll never LIE!! They are the ONLY GOOD people around! Sure, that's why they get all the tax breaks, 'cuz they only want to do GOOD! They are kind! They help the sick and the old and the poor!

How DARE anyone attack them!?!?!?!

No wonder so many monsters have been able to hide behind religion. It got a pass around suspicion for 500+ years. Lately, though, thanks to showing their true colors, their numbers are fading and many people want nothing to do with them, myself included.

Some of my friends are parents who still see no wrong in leaving their kids with church "schools," pastors or preachers. I guess those abused kids will become the next generation of religious "leaders" and start the process yet again.

[defacto7]

10. + 1000

I'm with you.

[upi402]

13. If I put myself in the shoes of those kids

I can't imagine the anger that powerlessness might bring.

This is like that case where a judge ended up in prison. He had a lawyer/cohort building and operating for-profit juvenile detention centers. The judge was sending kids there for no reason and extending their sentences without trial and with no end date.

I think I saw it in Mike Moore's 'Capitalism, A Love Story'.

[backscatter712]

11. I get flamed for calling Mitt Romney a Nazi...

yet here he is, with his firm Bain neck-deep in the running of for-profit concentration camps.

[Wednesdays]

12. K & R