30 officers who are accused

The California Attorney General announced the determination of 30 prison officers on Monday, which was assigned to a youthful hall in Los Angeles with child abuse because he allegedly approved and sometimes encouraged so -called gladiator fights among young people.

At the center of the Grand Jury Jury, the assertion is that civil servants as children and adolescents in the Juvenile Hall of Los Padrinos said in a declaration. The internment camp is located in Downey, about 13 miles south of Downtown Los Angeles.

The office of the Attorney General Rob Bonta gave at least 69 fights with 143 children and teenagers between the ages of 12 and 18 in the second half of 2023. Some fights, according to Bonta's office, led to physical injuries.

Officers, said Bonta in the explanation, were supposedly “monitoring” Gladiator fights “if they are supposed to intervene”.

The defendants used the vulnerability of the victims and their own trust item, said his office.

“Let today's charges be a warning for everyone who abuses your power,” said Bonta. “The California Ministry of Justice is observed and we will be accountable.”

The battles became aware of the Attorney General and the investigators after the video was “leaked” in January 2024, Bontas said. He spoke to video news media and described the violence.

“The film material, which was later widespread by the media and on social media, shows that a young person in the internment camp is attacked by a number of other young people who watch him one after the other as prison officers by watching,” said Bonta in video, which was broadcast on Monday by the NBC partner Kcra by Sacramento. “The officials look more like referees or spectators in a price war, not like care and supervision of young people.”

Stacy Ford, President of the deputy probation workers of the probation helper in La, Afscme Local 685, which represents the 30 officials in working negotiations, said in an explanation that the organization “would do everything in our power” to support the civil servants.

“Every American is innocent until he has proven to be guilty,” said Ford.

He said that youth security officers have the task of keeping peace and order in children, and teenagers who are often accused of violent crimes.

“Despite these challenges, our professional peace officers are still obliged to maintain the highest professionalism,” he said. “We will continue to stand up for the security, the rights and integrity of our members.”

According to the indictment, each of the 30 civil servants for child abuse is charged according to a California law who enable those who have been sentenced to children who were sentenced in the state prison for two to six years.

According to the document, one of the 30 is exposed to an additional number of offense batteries for alleged use of violence and violence against an unnamed topic.

Three of the defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit a crime, said the indictment. It is said that two of them have allowed some of the fights, knew beforehand when and where they would happen and demanded that the new prisoners observe the fights, but not to report.

The public prosecutor claimed that the third had joined the other two to allow some of the fights, one of what led to a broken nose for a nameless victim.

One of the three said new civil servants that nine fights on December 22, 2023 were an example of how the prisoners checked the children in their care in their care in a unit of the youth facility.

Twenty -two of the accused were charged on Monday. The rest is charged on April 18, the General Prosecutor's office said.

All accused were put on an unpaid vacation, the district's probation department said in a statement. In April 2024 said, the probation helper Guillermo Viera Rosa said that the civil servants accepted on the alleged abuse were removed from the obligation when he requested investigations by an external agency.

“We will not tolerate misconduct like that that was shown in the video,” said the boss at the time.

In the next month he said that 66 civil servants were put on vacation under an internal examination. Viera Rosa said that according to a statement by the district, he would interpret the “culture of violence, drug use, neglect and sexual misconduct in the country's largest probation agency”.

The indictment announced on Monday was an example of the need to change the culture of the County Probation Officers, La County Supervisor Janice Hahn that she would support the dismissal of officials who are found to be guilty.

“The young people in Los Padrinos are not only in our care, but also in our care,” she said in an explanation. “It is unacceptable that probation helpers who have been responsible for this use use their power to abuse these children.”