Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Troubled teen facilities have parents sign agreements which give them permission to physically restrain their child, and release them from liability if the child gets hurt. These “holds” can often kill.

  I was only put in a hold once. I was on the van, I was being kicked by two other children, the staff refused to intervene, so I opened the van door and attempted to escape. I was groped in this hold.

  I do not know how to convey how traumatizing physical restraint is. It happened to me again, in December, when I went voluntarily inpatient and was physically forced into the woman’s ward. I am a trans man, have had surgery and I’m legally recognized as male for more than a decade - I had asked if I could just sleep in the common area as a concession/to not be outed - nope! I got shoved around by four grown men and called “fucking retarded.” I’ll never reach out for help again.

  source

  • Cocopanda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m sorry you had to go through this. I hope one day we can have a better society.

    source
  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That’s the problem when social services are cut to the bone and they have to hire whatever thugs they can get for the shit money they can pay, and they lose whatever trust they might have from the population they’re supposed to serve.

    source