Carrie was committed to the Virginia Colony, Emma was also sent there. It seems that she had turned to drug use and prostitution—although it’s hard to say, since many female vagrants were labelled prostitutes.) A sloppy reading of Gregor Mendel’s pea pods and Charles Darwin’s theories gave a scientific veneer to the conclusion that many social ills were caused by the proliferation of the wrong sort of people and that they could be neatly nipped in the bud with the intervention of eugenics—a term coined, in 1883, by Darwin’s half-cousin Francis Galton, who declared it “a virile creed, full of hopefulness.” Soon, the United States, along with Germany, was at the forefront of the movement to improve the human species through breeding.
Carrie Buck was nobody you would have heard of. She was born in 1906 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Soon afterward, her father either abandoned the family or died—there’s no reliable record—leaving Carrie and her mother, Emma, in dire poverty. As a toddler, Carrie was taken in, with the approval of a municipal court, by a well-to-do couple, John and Alice Dobbs, who asked to become her foster parents after seeing Emma on the street. Carrie lived with the Dobbses and went to school through the sixth grade, after which they pulled her out of school so that she could do housework full time. She cleaned their house and was hired out to clean neighbors’ homes, until, at seventeen, she was discovered to be pregnant—she later said that she’d been raped, by Alice Dobbs’s nephew—at which point her guardians moved to have her declared mentally deficient, although there was no prior evidence that this was the case. They then had her committed to the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded.
The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement
The New Yorker
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The abuse to prison pipeline is the arrest of 1,000 American children each year for prostitution offenses. Help us make clear that there is #NoSuchThing as a child prostitute-- only victims and survivors of child trafficking.
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A primary victim is one who suffers psychiatric harm after being physically injured/put in fear of injury (Page v Smith [1996]) but this zone of danger is interpreted in a narrow fashion (Rothwell v Chemical & Insulating Co Ltd [2006]). The definition has been expanded in some circumstances to include, for example, rescuers (White v CC of S Yorkshire [1999]). Secondary victims are witnesses to an injury/situation where a person is put in fear of injury but have to met four criteria before being able to successfully claim: Not be overly susceptible to psychiatric harm
Have suffered the harm through shock North Glamorgan NHS Trust v Walters [2002] Have been in physical proximity of the accident/aftermath “direct, immediate perception” – Alcock v CC of S Yorkshire [1992] Have enjoyed a close personal/familial relationship with the victim Extended to fiancés in Alcock but not to rescuers – White v CC of S Yorkshire [1999].
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