HIV infected children in NYC are forced to take highly toxic, experimental AIDS drugs

Yesterday, Rimone sent me a link that made my jaw put a hole in the floor. BBC Two aired a documentary on Tuesday called "Guinea Pig Kids." I couldn't believe what I was reading about it, but the BBC is a respected news source, and GlaxoSmithKline basically confirmed the story by defending their "trials of AIDS/HIV drugs in children in care homes."

So what happens during these trials? From the BBC:

Jacklyn Hoerger's job was to treat children with HIV at a New York children's home.

But nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and highly toxic.

"We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of this was because of their HIV infection."

In fact it was the drugs that were making the children ill and the children had been enrolled on the secret trials without their relatives' or guardians' knowledge.

As Jacklyn would later discover, those who tried to take the children off the drugs risked losing them into care. ...

Central to this story is the city's child welfare department, the Administration for Children's Services (ACS).

The ACS, as it is known, was granted far-reaching powers in the 1990s by then-Republican Mayor Rudi Giuliani, after a particularly horrific child killing.

Within the shortest of periods, literally thousands of children were being rounded up and placed in foster care.

"They're essentially out of control," said family lawyer David Lansner. "I've had many ACS case workers tell me: 'We're ACS, we can do whatever we want' and they usually get away with it."

Having taken children into care, the ACS was now, effectively, their parent and could do just about anything it wished with them.

Is the Catholic Church supporting this shit?

One of the homes to which HIV positive children were taken was the Incarnation Children's Center, a large, expensively refurbished red-bricked building set back from the sidewalk in a busy Harlem street.

It is owned by the Catholic church and when we attempted to talk to officials at Incarnation we were referred to an equally expensive Manhattan public relations company, which then refused to comment on activities within the home.

And just why are they refusing comment? Well, maybe they don't want horrific incidents like this to come out.

At Incarnation, if a child refused to take the medicines offered, he or she was force-fed through a peg-tube inserted into the stomach.

And what happens when a foster parents takes their children off these toxic drugs? The court takes their children away and says they are guilty of child abuse.

When Jacklyn Hoerger later fostered two children from the home where she used to work with a view to adopting them, she discovered just how powerful the ACS was.

"It was a Saturday morning and they had come a few times unannounced," she said. "So when I opened the door I invited them in and they said that this wasn't a happy visit. At that point they told me that they were taking the children away. I was in shock."

Jacklyn, a trained paediatric nurse, had taken the fatal step of taking the children off the drugs, which had resulted in an immediate boost to their health and happiness.

As a result she was branded a child abuser in court. She has not been allowed to see the children since.

Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable. Who could anybody defend this?

And why hasn't this been widely reported in America yet? A quick search on Google News shows that the only US outlet which has touched the story is Reuters. Where's the New York Times? Washington Post? NBC? CBS? ABC? CNN? Why are they so quiet about these atrocious crimes against children who can't fight for themselves?