Nine-Year-Old Boy Sent to Industrial Home
A child is removed from his foster home after the county attorney labels his lack of supervision as 'criminal tendencies.'
A tiny 9-year-old boy was the most interesting prisoner to face Judge Easterday in the juvenile court yesterday. The lad had been living with foster parents, according to the information filed by Deputy County Attorney Burmeister, and has been allowed to run about the streets so much that he has adopted criminal tendencies. He was turned over to the officials of the Children's Industrial Home.
“The lad... has been allowed to run about the streets so much that he has adopted criminal tendencies.”
This reflects the early, punitive approach of the American juvenile justice system, where children—often neglected or simply unsupervised—were processed alongside adults and institutionalized rather than provided with social support.
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