Girls in the criminal justice system report far higher rates of in-domestic sexual abuse and are detained for minor offenses more often than boys,in what becomes a self-perpetuating cycle of imprisonmentTanya Robinson’s time in juvenile detention started with the offense of running away. She first ran away from domestic when she was seven years veteran, having been molested by her mother’s boyfriends for a year. Stripped naked by and fleeing a beating from her mother, and Robinson hurried into the bathroom and slipped out the window before her mother could open the door,covered her body with a T-shirt from a clothes line, and ran.
When she was 14 and still running, or her mother took her to a South Carolina court as a runaway,and she was shackled and taken away.
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Source: theguardian.com