(August 7, 2012 at 9:25 pm)Shell B Wrote: I would never disagree with that, hence my statement that it is not "America," but Utah. Were it a universal law that you could abuse children for relatively small indiscretions in the United States, federal law, in other words, I never would have said that. If you can separate states into two types, if one thing is only typical of one type, you cannot say it is "America," so much as whatever it is that differentiates it from the other states. There is no execution in my state. There is no child abuse in court rooms. We have good health care. We're not perfect, but this sure isn't Utah, Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, etc.
Yeah - although in the relatively "enlightened" state of Pennsylvania we had this not too long ago.
Quote:http://abcnews.go.com/US/mark-ciavarella...d=12965182
Quote: A former juvenile court judge in Pennsylvania could face more than 10 years in prison after being convicted in what prosecutors called a "kids for cash" scheme.
Prosecutors say former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella used children as pawns, locking them up unjustly in a plot to get rich. Ciavarella is accused of taking nearly $1 million in kickbacks from owners of private detention centers in exchange for placing juvenile defendants at their facilities, often for minor crimes.
