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I cannot imagine anyone, let alone a kid, breaking my finger. Fortunately, for me, my volunteer work at The Agency has been safe.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on February 2, 2015 at 11:01 AM
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Yes a sad state of affairs Taps, Folk who have children that will never conform to decent standards seem to have more than usual. I pity some woman who had to put up with that lad's potential cruelty.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 2, 2015 at 12:56 AM
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Re: Re: adnohr
No matter how hard we try, for some children it is just too late - they are absorbed by the seamier side of this world. I lived it - and it broke my heart - while working with the kids in the street in our city. The most difficult thing was realizing that some could just not be saved from continuing on the same road that many had known since birth. You can imagine how we rejoiced when one would be saved and could begin building a future!!
posted by
adnohr
on February 1, 2015 at 8:47 PM
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Re: adnohr
The organization was doing the best that it could. I didn't tell anyone and in those days no one made you turn in any reports or anything. But, it got told by someone and after that day, he was never allowed in the gym again. In fact I never saw him again that I know of. I lost track of him but of those who were with him that day, two of them ended up in prison for murders, one for selling drugs and one got by with murder for over twenty years until DNA turned up that convicted him. He now is in prison for the rest of his life. "The organization" did a lot of good through the years and helped a lot of kids who just needed a chance.
posted by
TAPS.
on February 1, 2015 at 7:41 PM
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TAPS
I have known a couple of broken men who probably did stuff like this as kids; and both my folks ran across them in the school system. My dad had dealings with the court system I know, and Mama has talked about trying to talk to parents about a little boy torturing animals....she was told to mind her own business but that was years ago. I'm afraid I'm not real optimistic about the success rate in curing these broken minds.
posted by
Krisles
on February 1, 2015 at 6:33 PM
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What he did was wrong. What the organization did by allowing him to come back in that day, and then not being made to at least apologize to you before ever being allowed in again, was worse. What did the boy learn from the episode except that he could get away with brutality?
posted by
adnohr
on February 1, 2015 at 6:32 PM
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I feel more sorry for you but I probably shouldn't Yes I should. Hopelessly damaged kids that age need male guidance if they are boys. He only knew about male brutality and disrespect towards females who were just hopelss sluts and druggies anyway ...from his perspective. I know that I could never have coped with him and his friends, not then not now.
posted by
Kabu
on February 1, 2015 at 5:11 PM
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You're right, the kid was broken, totally. He's probably in prison
somewhere now, if he hasn't already found a bullet with his number on it.
posted by
Pat_B
on February 1, 2015 at 4:09 PM
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posted by
Star5_
on February 1, 2015 at 3:18 PM
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