The Texas Youth Commission sex scandal is shifting focus. We'll undoubtedly stop hearing about teenage boys getting raped as the much more interesting story to self-involved politicos comes to the surface...who to blame? Finding and placing blame and then wondering if you can trust new leadership to clean up the mess is so much more interesting politically than finding out what went wrong in a system that allowed 47 confirmed cases of sexual abuse against boys.
Since the blame game has started we know that injecting real change and stop gaps to prevent this from happening again is now just a matter of a few meetings and press releases. If you're a pedophine with an interest in criminal justice, there's an exciting career still waiting for you at the Texas Youth Commission!
Perry covered it up for at least two years to get reelected. Typical Perry m.o.
He'll take credit for others good work (not sure there's been much of that during his tenure) but he'll never say the buck stops with him for anything bad that has happened and been ignored either intentionally or recklessly on his own watch.
More Republican values: It's more important to harass Democratic campaign activists than to prevent kids from being raped.
Greg Abbott's mealy-mouthed pronouncements about protecting children ring hollow.
He should have specified that he only meant children not in TYC facilities.
This is kinda bad I guess, but that picture is hot. Where does that guy work? What do I have to do to get sentenced there?
dude... that's Rawhide.
Don't we all wish that were true.
Seems that some of the people involved were a bit TOO excited about their job. Maybe we just need people who don't care.