“Child dragged into crime.”
The expression is beautiful. It's soft. It doesn't bother anyone.
It hides only one truth.
The child has committed a crime.
But we construct the sentence in such a way that there is no perpetrator.
It's as if the boy slipped on his own.
We are comfortable.
Tens of thousands of children end up in court every year.
What's the most
Theft Injury.
So the child is either trying to buy something
Or it tries to exist by bumping into someone.
Both lead to the same sentence
“See me.”
But what do we do
We punish the doer, not the seer.
The story is always the same.
The child is disconnected from school.
First he doesn't come for a few days.
Then no one calls.
Then no one is curious.
At some point, the child also quits.
And that moment is critical.
Because if you're coming out of a system
You enter another system.
There is no such thing as emptiness.
The street fills that void.
The street is fast.
There are clear rules.
And most importantly
He'll accept you right away.
If the school won't give you a seat
Street gives.
Then the little things start.
Stealing something.
To hit someone.
If someone doesn't come along at that moment and say, “That's it.”
The child learns that
So it's okay.
The real problem starts here.
It's not that the child doesn't know he is doing wrong.
But he learns that there is no recompense for wrongdoing.
And that knowledge is very dangerous.
After a while, the police station.
The first one is fear.
Less in the second.
Then habit.
That is where we come in.
Perfect timing.
After it's too late.
Because our system works like this
No early vision
There's a late catch
School absenteeism is a given.
But no one takes him seriously.
But that absence is a sentence
I'm getting out of here.
But no one goes after him.
Then we are surprised to see the child at the police station.
Do not be surprised.
This is a planned outcome.
And then there's this
“I don't.”
We misunderstand this sentence.
The child is not just saying “I have no money”.
He says
I don't have a place
No one's holding me
No one cares about me
Someone who grew up with this feeling
Fills the gap
Whatever he finds.
Sometimes by taking.
Sometimes by breaking it.
And the border issue.
The border does not form by itself.
Somebody has to put it in.
If no one puts it
The child puts it himself.
And it's usually too late.
Let's say this clearly
Not every child is innocent.
But no child gets to this point on their own.
If a child is absent for weeks
If no one knocks on your door
If no one says “where are you?”
There are no children there
The system is lost.
But we are passing the bill to the child.
Easy.
So what do we do?
It's not very complicated.
The child is absent from school for two weeks
One of them will leave.
He will really go.
First outpost contact
There will be no file opening
It will be a life intervention
In a child's life
There will be at least one adult
A real adult.
If you are unable to do so
Talk as much as you want
Nothing changes.
Because it's not about crime.
The point is this
We are not losing children
We are slowly pushing them away
And finally
They look where they fell
“How did it happen?” we ask.