Homeless street children in the Philippines are being caged to keep streets clean for Pope Francis

[Cali_Democrat]

EXCLUSIVE - Children CAGED to keep the streets clean for the Pope: Police round up orphans and chain them in filth during pontiff's visit to Philippines

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.









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

[KamaAina]

1. I'm pretty sure Pope Francis is not going to be happy about this

when he finds out.

[Fumesucker]

2. Suffer little children does not mean what they think it means

[shraby]

3. He needs to go into where the kids are and clean house, then make his speech

with the children sitting around him.

[raging moderate]

4. Somebody should get this information to Pope Francis NOW.

Don't assume he knows. Many people would like to keep it from him, and he's old and not surfing the 'net.
I am not Catholic. Does anybody know? Would those traveling bus nuns be able to get through to him? Or wouldn't it be better to find somebody in the Phillippines?