Tucker Carlson highlighted a disturbing story on his show about a 16-year-old boy in Juvenile Detention who was pumped full of Estrogen against his will and without his parent’s knowledge, as a way to “calm down” the teenager.
The young boy ended up growing breasts and now he and his family are suing.
Then, over the weekend, WitnessLA received a copy of a newly-filed complaint against LA County, which described a teenage boy who was in one of probation’s juvenile halls when he was allegedly forced against his will, and without his parent’s knowledge, into an extremely unusual form of “treatment,” by various medical professionals who work inside probation’s youth facilities.
The story is an alarming one, and it illustrates one more time why so many youth advocates and others believe that civilian oversight of the nation’s largest probation department is urgent.
On June 25, 2019, just a little over a year ago, a 16-year-old boy (whom we’ll call Javier, to protect his identity) had just been detained and sent to Central Juvenile Hall, one of the county’s two remaining juvenile halls, located northeast of downtown LA, on Eastlake Avenue.
At Eastlake, as the hall is often known, Javier was given a physical examination by some of the facility’s medical personnel.
According to the complaint, during the June 25, 2019, exam, medical staff first administered a blood test, then a urine test, after which Dr. Danny Wang determined that Javier had slightly elevated testosterone levels.
Javier was, after all, a teenager, which meant his hormones were likely to be bouncing quite a bit.
But in Javier’s case, the physician who examined him reportedly diagnosed him with Oppositional Defiance Disorder, or ODD, then elected to prescribe an unusual form of medication, with the idea that it would make the boy less “aggressive.”
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I can’t think of anything more disturbing than a bunch of doctors making diagnoses and decisions about a minor without any parental input, knowledge, or consent. And then to pump a young man full of a female hormone in order to “readjust” his behavior is just unthinkable.
I hope this family is successful and sues the pants off of this juvenile detention center so this will never happen to another person again.
This piece was written by Missy Crane on August 7, 2020. It originally appeared in WayneDupree.com and is used by permission.
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