‘A true horror story’: matumizi mabaya ya wavulana wenye umri mdogo katika kituo cha kuzuiliwa

awali kwa: Guardian
kuchapishwa: 13 Aprili 2012

“My name’s Kevin Raymond Young and I’m 52 umri wa miaka.” There’s something desperate about the way Young says it, as if he’s clinging to the wreckage of his identity. Vijana ilikuwa 17 wakati alipelekwa Medomsley kizuizini katika kituo cha kata Durham. He’d already had a tough life – taken into care at two, sexually and physically abused by those who were meant to look after him – but this was something different. As soon as he starts to tell his story, he’s in tears.

His experience of Medomsley in 1977 has shaped, or disfigured, his life ever since. He was convicted of receiving stolen property – a watch his brother had given him; the first he had owned. The police asked if he knew where it had come from. Si, alisema. Could it possibly have been stolen, they asked. He thought about it – well, yes, possibly. He was sentenced to three months’ detention.

The morning after he arrived at Medomsley, Young was lining up for breakfast when he was picked out of the queue by Neville Husband, the officer who ran the kitchen. Young later discovered that Husband had asked for his file – he wanted to know everything about him; most importantly, whether he had family who were likely to visit him. Young was one of a handful of new inmates sent to work in the kitchen with Husband.

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