Luiz 4,253 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Street children as young as five are being caged in brutal detention centres alongside adult criminals in a cynical drive to smarten up the Philippines capital ahead of a visit by Pope Francis this week. Hundreds of boys and girls have been rounded up from doorways and roadsides by police and officials and put behind bars in recent weeks to make the poverty-racked city more presentable when Pope Francis arrives tomorrow, a MailOnline investigation has found. In a blatant abuse of the country's own child protection laws, the terrified children are locked up in filthy detention centres where they sleep on concrete floors and where many of them are beaten or abused by older inmates and adult prisoners and, in some cases, starved and chained to pillars. Six million people are expected to attend an open air mass conducted by Pope Francis in Manila's Rizal Park on Sunday, which will watched by a global TV audience and officials appear determined to ensure that urchins are hidden from view. MailOnline found dozens of street children locked up in appalling conditions alongside adult criminals in Manila, where a senior official admitted there had been an intensive round-up by police and government workers to make sure they are not seen by Pope Francis. We gained rare access to a detention centre by accompanying Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Irish missionary Father Shay Cullen, 71, as he freed a boy aged around seven and took him to his Preda Foundation shelter for children 100 miles away in Subic Bay. Mak-Mak, whose legs and body were riddled with scabies, was picked up three weeks ago and spent Christmas and the New Year in a concrete pen at the centre hidden away in the slums of Manila's Paranaque district which –with grotesque irony – is named House of Hope. There, guiltless children are kept behind bars, made to go to the toilet in buckets and fed leftovers which they eat from the floor. There is no schooling or entertainment for the youngsters who are held sometimes for months before being freed. Adult convicts are kept in a pen next to separate compounds holding boys and girls and freely pass between the pens at certain times of the day, inmates and regular visitors to the centre told us, while officials either ignore or fail to spot abuse and attacks. In poignant scenes, Mak-Mak – an abandoned child with no ID – at first seen frightened but then beamed with delight as charity workers told him he was being taken from his caged pen to children's home in the countryside. 'Are there toys there?' was his first question. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2906730/EXCLUSIVE-Children-CAGED-God-Police-seize-orphans-chain-filth-clear-streets-Pope-s-visit-Philippines.html#ixzz3Opf8xhDT done posting news threads I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
latinteddybear 2 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 this almost made me cry. click the link to see the photos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Sounds more Satanic than Christian... I wonder if he will address this, people go too far to defend a fairytale :awkney: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,768 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Matthew 19:14: Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Josh 3 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Disgusting Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paco 3,040 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 that's awful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HANZ 4,380 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 My Favs = Lady Gaga, Janet Jackson, Ricky Martin, AKB48 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cocaine Heart 4,768 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Religious pric*s We going to boo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Religious pric*s Your sig is actually so relevant to this thread :emo: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jomonster12 239 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 With all that money that the pope has, he can at least helped them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garnite 8 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Matthew 19:14: Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."don't give the pope that much credit. he's only the vicar of christ. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
YCHofficial 5,293 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Nice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,768 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 don't give the pope that much credit. he's only the vicar of christ. And infallible Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valextra 58 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 D I S G U S T I N G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah X 5,250 Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 yay make way for the messenger of god. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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