Being sent to a youth detention center, where he says that he endured sexual abuse. “You put more children into Houses of Hope, which are not equipped, lack personnel and programs, and you will have problems. Mixing youngsters who have committed minor infringements with older criminals could create a “school of crime,” said Louise Suamen, a youth advocate with the Bahay Tuluyan Foundation. However, critics insist that conditions in many of the facilities are identical to or worse than the jails that adults are sent to. “These are really hellholes of subhuman conditions.”Children previously held in the system, including Jerry, said that they suffered abuse in youth centers.

Source: Taipei Times July 22, 2019 16:07 UTC