It takes a special kind of asshole to hear that kids are being molested and immediately start working to make sure the molesters won't be sued.
Turns out the IN Republicunt legislature is entirely composed of those assholes. Why is raping children part of the Republicunt platform?
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/investigations/2023/04/25/after-sexual-abuse-claims-youth-treatment-center-wants-immunity/70147775007/ A faith-based residential treatment center accused of allowing staff to sexually abuse boys is pushing for legislation that would protect it and similar state contractors from most lawsuits filed by victims and their families.
The legislation would provide immunity to child caring institutions and group homes in connection with the performance of duties under a contract with the Indiana Department of Child Services. Those contractors include Lifeline Youth & Family Services/Lasting Change, a politically connected operator that provides homebased services and runs a residential treatment center in Northern Indiana.
One of Lifeline's facilities is Pierceton Woods Academy, a residential treatment center about 30 miles west of Fort Wayne that provides care for sexually maladapted youth.
The academy has been accused of allowing employees to abuse teenage boys, then covering it up. A psychologist hired by the attorneys of one victim said in a report submitted as part of the 2020 lawsuit that at least a dozen staffers were known or suspected to have sexually abused boys at Pierceton Woods.
The controversial proposal, House Bill 1282, appeared dead earlier this month after a Senate committee failed to advance it, but lawmakers appeared ready to add the liability protections to House Bill 1091 as of Tuesday. If that happens, the full House and Senate could vote on the measure this week.
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During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last month, Tim Smith said the immunity legislation is needed because of a huge increase in insurance premiums. Without relief, he said, the company already has reduced the number of boys it serves and may not be able to continue providing important rehabilitation services. Smith testified the annual insurance premium jumped from $30,000 for $3 million coverage to $500,000 for less coverage. He blamed “one lawsuit in 55 years” even though it was settled for “nuisance value,” a legal term for an amount less than it would cost to fight a lawsuit. Smith said he could not disclose the settlement amount because it was confidential. McConnell, the Warsaw attorney who represented the family in that lawsuit, called out Smith on the nuisance settlement claim. “That statement was not true,” McConnell said. “So not only does Lasting Change want the taxpayer to cover their negligence, its CEO is willing to lie to the Legislature in order to try and make it happen.” Court documents and DCS records in the lawsuit detail a troubled facility rife with allegations of the abuse of young boys — most already abuse victims seeking treatment. The case alleged a 16-year-old boy was groomed and sexually abused by a female worker. An investigation by DCS found that allegations of child seduction against the employee were substantiated, meaning there’s enough evidence for a “reasonable person” to believe the boy had been abused. It also revealed the same employee had been investigated two years earlier for similar allegations and allowed to keep her job despite refusing to cooperate with that earlier DCS investigation. The lawsuit alleged the woman coerced the boy, and other residents, into participating in various sexual acts over several months in 2019. The employee formed a so-called “circle of trust” with the boys and repeatedly told them they could be open with her, according to a complaint filed in Kosciusko County in October 2020.
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The complaint also alleged that multiple supervisors were or should have been aware of the accusations against the employee, but they “failed to implement policies to prevent sexual assault” and, instead, “chose to minimize and cover up” such allegations. The lawsuit filed by McConnell was voluntarily dismissed by agreement of the parties in February 2022 after discovery, including multiple depositions that were taken. That dismissal was tied to a then-confidential financial settlement with the family. The dispute was rekindled last month following a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on HB 1282, which would prohibit negligence claims such as the one McConnell brought against Pierceton Woods. Under the legislation, immunity would apply to most liability claims, including wrongful death, negligence, malpractice, battery and infliction of emotional distress. There are exclusions for criminal offenses, gross negligence and willful or wanton misconduct, but those cases are rare and much more difficult to prove. McConnell said he shared information about the settlement in his case after hearing Smith downplay the incident in testimony to the Senate committee. He said Smith's public statement voided the agreement, and he doesn't want to see lawmakers swayed by what he considers misinformation. Brad Catlin, an attorney who has represented multiple clients in DCS-related lawsuits, said the impact of abuse in youth treatment settings can be particularly devastating for the children involved. "If they are hurt in places where they are put for care, that’s a terrible thing," he said. "It probably also will seriously make the issues they are dealing with worse." Lawmakers should ensure contractors are held accountable, he said. "If some somebody doesn't have a consequence, they're more likely to engage in bad behavior," he said. "And this takes the consequence away."
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I just don't care anymore. Get a gun and tell everything with a beating heart to fuck off and your family oughta be safe from molesters.
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Republicans scream about transgenders being pedophiles but are notably silent whenever it’s a pastor or priest. What a bunch of hypocritical cunts.
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>>1243457 Must be a day that ends with y.
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>>1243393 democrats are mad about this because they wanted to be the ones doing the raping
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>>1243462 Sorry, we know you like to get first dibs.
theonbadapple spoilsitsself
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>>1243393 Like the catholic church,in the GOP, it wasn't the institution,but some bad apples that caused the harm,as famous pedo. M Jackson sang:
One bad apple don't
Spoil the whole bunch, boy
Oh, give it one more try
Before you give up on church
One bad apple don't
Spoil the whole bunch, boy
Oh, I don't care what they say
I don't care what you heard now
I've been noticing you, baby
For a long, long time
(Long, long time now)
I'm not ashamed to tell the world
That you really messed up my mind
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>>1243393 >allowing staff to sexually abuse boys The fags are doing it again, ya'll.
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As much as I agree right-wing pedos deserve to be ridiculed and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, this article is from April. Read the board rules.
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How many times are fags going to enter positions of power where they can access boys to rape them and how long will it be until the veneer of the "harmless fag" is stripped away again and sodomy is made illegal again? Fags are disgusting.
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>>1243393 >One religious group apparently being responsible for child molestation means religion needs to be outlawed and dismantled How many teachers and/or CPS workers have been caught molesting children, and when should we dismantle those organizations, per your obvious double standards?
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>>1243618 Fags aren't technically a religious group.
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>>1243393 Read the board rules and head to /pol/