Absconding children are focus of new plan of action
Saturday 28th March 2009, 9:57AM GMT.
A NEW plan to deal with children absconding from care homes is being drawn up by the police and the children’s services, the JEP can reveal.
It is understood that around two or three children ‘go missing’ from the unsecure children’s homes every weekend – and social workers say they are often powerless to stop them.
A handful of the children as young as 12 are believed to be among a hardcore of young troublemakers getting drunk and causing a nuisance in town, often in the early hours.
The news comes on the same day that a distraught mother talks publicly for the first time about her out-of-control daughter. She is the subject of the Saturday Interview in today’s Jersey Evening Post.
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Surely a 10ft razor wire fence and a big locked gate should solve this problem
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What would the Germans have done in 1945 to unruly teenagers? If they could deal with it then why can’t we now?
I think the lawyers give the children too many rights.
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@1. But then that would infringe on their human rights, even though they are choosing to behave in a manner which denies most of us the basic human right of living in a safe and peaceful society
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Tazer Gun ? , that should convince them to return to there rooms after lights out
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Target these minority with draconian measures for the sake of the rest of humanity. Corporal punishment is swift cheap and effective. I also believe for these same reasons its humane.
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I was astounded when I heard that these children can “break-out” of their homes so easily. As P Lee suggested, just lock them in! Surely they would then learn that they can’t do what the hell they like when they want to do it. I was almost as astounded as when I heard that prisoners are allowed mobile phones – and when I heard that they were protesting because they weren’t allowed a plasma television. I think I might become a criminal; it sounds a lot better than working hard for a living.
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