This article was originally published by Matt Agorist at The Free Thought Project.
In 2008, a case of two judges from Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania — Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella — shocked the country when these insidious human beings were convicted of accepting money in return for imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles to increase occupancy at for-profit detention centers. The scam was known as “kids for cash” and it exposed the harsh reality of the school to prison pipeline. This egregious practice led to reforms that many thought would prevent such atrocities in the future but as a new report out of Nashville, Tennessee proves, that was not the case.
According to a damning report from ProPublica, a county was exposed for illegally locking up children, and in some instances, using lies to justify it. Some of these children who were locked in cages were as young as seven.
Like the instance in Wilkes-Barre, a county juvenile judge, Donna Scott Davenport, played a key role in this horrifying practice — so did the cops.
According to the report, Davenport, a self-described Christian who referred to herself as the “mother of the county,” took an exceedingly harsh stance on children who got in trouble and even ones who didn’t.
Case in point: In 2016, police responded to an alleged fight at Hobgood elementary school in Murfreesboro between a 5-year-old and a 6-year-old. Though this was hardly an incident for which police and the court system needed to be involved, for some reason, the school called for them.
When police showed up, the 5 and 6-year-old kids were handcuffed and arrested. But that’s just the beginning. Zacchaeus Crawford also got a call that day from the police telling him that his three children, ages 9, 10, and 11 were also arrested at the school, along with an 8-year-old and a 13-year-old.
All seven of these children were handcuffed and brought to jail. For allegedly watching the fight between two kids — not participating in it at all — the other five children were charged with “criminal responsibility for conduct of another”—a crime that does not exist in Tennessee law.
“It makes me want to fight. I’m not going to lie and say it doesn’t,” Crawford said of his children’s arrests. “How would you feel if it was your child? I’m frustrated.”
A year later, he and his wife sued and won an $86,500 settlement.
“All plaintiff children suffered great mental anguish and emotional trauma as a result of the false arrest and malicious prosecution as instigated and directed by defendants,” the lawsuit filed Feb. 16, 2017, stated.
Despite paying the settlement, the only person involved in the illegal arrest and detention of the children was a single cop, who was suspended for just three days.
Instead of decrying the incident, Judge Davenport issued a statement about children being bad. “We are in a crisis with our children in Rutherford County. I’ve been in officer 17 and a half years and I’ve never seen it this bad,” she told News 4 Nashville at the time.
Indeed, Davenport has a disdain for children like no other. According to the ProPublica report, nearly half of all children who go through her court, 48% — go to jail! That number is nearly ten times higher than the state average which is just 5% of children.
According to a report in Forbes, judge Davenport holds immense power over the local juvenile justice system, appointing all magistrates and approving policies for the detention center, thereby enabling this process even further.
ProPublica points out that Davenport is an apparent braggadocio about her record of jailing kids and keeps a high profile outside of the courtroom. She appears on a monthly segment on a local radio station, in which she has claimed children are behaving far worse now than they have in the past — on multiple occasions over several years.
“It’s worse now than I’ve ever seen it,” she said in 2012. Parents don’t parent: “It’s just the worst I’ve ever seen,” she said in 2017.
Davenport says she believes she’s on “God’s mission” to discipline children in the community, according to ProPublica.
“I’ve locked up one 7-year-old in 13 years, and that was a heartbreak,” she said in 2012. “But 8- and 9-year-olds, and older, are very common now,” she said.
Like the case in Wilkes-Barre, the juvenile detention facility acts as a profit center for locking up kids, receiving $175 of taxpayer money per day, per kid.
“Being detained in our facilities is not a picnic at all. It’s not supposed to be. It’s a consequence for an action,” Davenport said on a recent radio segment. But she conveniently leaves out the fact that it’s a windfall scenario for those involved in the incarceration of the children.
Naturally, ProPublica’s report sparked a heavy backlash against the system, but it’s led to no arrests or resignations and Davenport refused to even respond.
This is the current state of the “child justice system” in the land of the free.
It Took 22 Years to Get to This Point
Speaking to author and podcaster Dana Parish, former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
The United States just made a decision that could lead to World War 3. The current ruling class...
This article was originally published by Lance D. Johnson at Natural News. In the global war to...
Russia has just announced that conscription in the former Soviet Union is "unnecessary" as...
Commenting Policy:
Some comments on this web site are automatically moderated through our Spam protection systems. Please be patient if your comment isn’t immediately available. We’re not trying to censor you, the system just wants to make sure you’re not a robot posting random spam.
This website thrives because of its community. While we support lively debates and understand that people get excited, frustrated or angry at times, we ask that the conversation remain civil. Racism, to include any religious affiliation, will not be tolerated on this site, including the disparagement of people in the comments section.
Looked up Davenport’s pic. Another unhinged pillar of society.
The globalists are becoming unhinged. They are getting more and more crazier.
Maybe they need to be locking up the parents.
Just sayin.
Maybe they should lock up the psychopaths and sociopaths in positions of authority. These imposters should have been restrained decades ago.
People responsible for this sort if thing should be held accountable to the max.
But they won’t be.
So these things will continue.
And nothing can be done about it.
my old man would have been a billionaire if he got $86,500 everytime i got into a playground fight.
davenport is a self described christain in much the same way that al gore is the self described inventor of the internet.
speaking of nashville….shout out & hat tip to my mainest man Travis Tritt.
ht tps://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/10/19/travis-tritt-cancels-shows-at-venues-with-covid-19-restrictions/8520110002/
As this nationwide collapse unfolds it will be harder to stop the revenge that people will inflict on public figures and others until it gets to the point of hanging judges, burying prosecutors alive, drowning child molesters, burning leftist at the stake and crucifying satanist. Next they will go after criminal bankers, politicians, cops and illegal aliens which they will just shoot. If you wait forty years and still want revenge then do it.
The “damning report” the author quotes is from “ProPublica”. If you are conservative in thought and practice, I would suggest you visit the site and determine for yourself if they would have some sort of an agenda. When I saw their position on “global warming”, no, I mean “climate change”, wait, or is it “climate disruption” today?? they lost all credibility as far as I’m concerned. Plus, when one observes a comment such as this; “According to the report, Davenport, a self-described Christian…”, one should know that the writer takes a dim view of her belief and in this case, desires to associate negative behavior with all Christians.
As for Judge Davenport, well, I know her personally. I have been to her court on several occasions in the past and know exactly what she sees everyday. The bottom line is that she demands respect of her court and of the law. Most of the people that enter her court as defendants (most, not all mind you) come from “families” that have no regard for the law or society in general. So with that in mind, you might come to understand that the seemingly harshness of the court may be justified.
The arrest of the children at Hobgood Elementary school in Murfreesboro was complete stupidity on the part of the officers and PD. The Chief of the PD was new and not from the department, which probably contributed to this stupid, idiotic mistake. Had the City Council selected a member from the police department, this most likely never would have happened. Judge Davenport went with what the police officer swore to in the juvenile petition, which in this instance was a mistake. And now she is getting the blame and of course, it’s all about race. And that she is a “self described Christian”.
My pitchfork trees are loaded this year. Will be handing out the extras.
It’s a pic that looks like hatefacts —
wkrn.com/news/elementary-students-arrested-at-school-for-off-campus-incident-in-murfreesboro/
“Davenport says she believes she’s on “God’s mission” to discipline children in the community, according to ProPublica.”
What we have is an underground and state church, just like in Red China.
The evangelical mainstream cannot differentiate between God and the legislative and, in my estimation, will be left behind.
But, depending on who is in the administration, it looks just like Christian Dominionism.
I am not against the turnkey of civilization; I question who would be keyholder.
Child protective services are human traffickers they are taking children from their parents and not returning them and the parents has no recourse if they are In poverty