• fizzle@quokk.au
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    2 hours ago

    This seems like a complex issue, and I don’t necessarily think that not having legal representation for half of them is necessarily the biggest problem.

    It’s just inexcusable that children are taken from their parents in any case.

    All of these kids, lawyer or no, are more or less doomed to a life of abuse, exploitation, poverty, and the resultant mental health problems.

    Presumably, the acacia centre of justice is conducting a triage and representing the cases they can where there’s a chance of achieving a better outcome.

  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    These judges who are allowing this and not ordering the immediate dismissal of all charges and for the children to be released are monsters.

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      4 hours ago

      Yeah. I used to be a person who said that “America is great because it is good” and I know that attitude came from a post 9-11 patriotism I thought was real.

      But this isn’t even trying. We are broken as a society and country.

      RIP 🇺🇸

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    6 hours ago

    I almost want there to be a hell. I most likely would end up there for my denial of a greater being. But getting the chance to see these people explain themselves to their creator of how and why they abused kids and separated them before being cast out seems like the only justice these kids will ever receive