What do you do with a mentally ill 16-year-old transgender child who’s spent her entire life being abused and molested under the authority of the state? If you’re the progressive Democratic Party super-majority of Connecticut, you hide the minor in an adult state prison for two months without charge or conviction, in solitary confinement no less. The Party for Socialism and Liberation wasn’t going to stand for it. And yesterday, they got some results.
This 16-year-old Hispanic child was born a boy, but grew up as a female out of internal instinct and a complete absence of any care and compassion from the state guardian. Abused throughout her life while under the watchful eye of the Department of Children and Families, the young Jane Doe didn’t just have her rights violated by the state of Connecticut, she was tortured.
None of the news reports state how Jane Doe ended up in the custody of Connecticut DCF, whether she was abandoned or taken from her parents by the state. But one thing is evident, the government agency failed the girl when it contacted to the Connecticut state prison system and arranged for the 16-year-old to be incarcerated in an adult female state prison indefinitely for no legal reason.
Claiming the child was unmanageable and often violent, the Department sent the teen to prison in April of this year. And there she sat, in solitary confinement. On May 24th, 70 local grassroots activists descended upon the state DCF main office and then marched to the state capital demanding the release of Jane Doe. Front and center was the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
‘On May 24, activists and community members from throughout the Northeast gathered in Hartford, Conn., to protest the incarceration of 16-year-old Jane Doe, a transgender Latina girl imprisoned at York Correctional Facility despite not being charged with a crime,’ the PSL announced after the protest, ‘Doe has been in solitary confinement for almost two months. After enduring a lifetime of sexual and physical abuse from Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families, she is still not receiving the appropriate rehabilitation services that she needs. Instead, DCF and the state are covering up their years of abuse by blaming and torturing the victim.’
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