Sentences with phrase «turning a blind eye to children»

«The city is turning a blind eye to children with special needs,» he added.

Or maybe it's a warning to parents who turn a blind eye to children's failings until the family self - destructs.

Mann was exonerated of academic malpractice by the same people who we now know turned a blind eye to child sexual abuse — they obviously had a bias towards protecting their famous people in both.

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If you don't see that the RCC has given itself its own bad name then shame on your for turning a blind eye to all the damage they have done and all the children they have let down.

Youth workers said that mothers (presumably in such cases there are no fathers) are «too terrified of their own children to confront them and often turn a blind eye to cash or stolen goods brought home».

I will turn a blind eye to what others choose to feed their kids on an individual basis, but if there is some policy at the school that demands that what another parent sends must be served to my child, then there needs to be some kind of standard to which those offerings are held.

I've seen a mother go from a «turn a blind eye» enabler to someone who at least gives her children some kind of support once she divorced the father and took out a restraining order against him.

The Lankao government earlier acknowledged that it had turned a blind eye to the illegal orphanage, which cared for abandoned children and young adults.

«During the 60s and 70s and 80s there was a rash of child sex abuse throughout America that institutions turned a blind eye to and now you have adults who are now coming to terms with this abuse but they have no recourse in the court system, either through criminal or civil penalties because their time to file a lawsuit has expired,» he said.

Private legal practitioner, lawyer Maurice Ampaw, has lambasted the president, his appointees at the Gender Ministry and other state officials for turning a blind eye to the plight of street children.

Haters of truth and sentimentalists will call for Oshekomes head, byt will foolishly turn blind eyes to the fact that he have outlaid a child who depends on the father or relative being the invigilator to pass exams will always fail the exam on the day his father or relation is not in the exams hall, that is the case of the EFCC and the FGN, they relied on the judiciary to help them rubbish their opposition or faces they do not like, and have always lost cases because their candidates in the judiciary were not assigned their cases and that is the same head of EFCC Magu that the president keep nominating for confirmation, even when reports indicted him, this recent looses have to confirm to doubting Thomas that Magu is just the best because he can do the dirty work for the APC and Buhari, not because he is the best in corruption fight, I wish there is a listening and discerning government in place back there in Nigeria, they would have known that there is a vacuum as far as EFCC is concerned and use the time to shop for a head that will deliver, it also confirms the fact that the «So called fight against corruption» Is a BIG lie and propaganda, just a wipe to flog opposition into their line, shame on the clapping members and the O yes members who will never hear any criticisms concerning Buhari or anything he does good or bad, bitter or sweet dem go swallow like that shaaaaa.

There's no question and I don't know how anybody in any elected office can turn a blind eye to the 4,700 people who stayed with us at WIN last night, mothers and children — 70 percent of the people in shelter are families with children.»

«He's racked up 600 buildings violations at his properties, exposed children to lead paint, and turned a blind eye to rampant drug dealing that the City of New York had to sue him to stop.»

And the EPA has been accepting these data over the protests of a lot of people, turning a blind eye to the third tenfold safety factor for children and not enforcing the law.

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Mother Flo has issues galore, which is used to explain the blind eye she turns to what is happening to her only child.

And for this, all who turn a blind eye to the Constitution in the name of «the children» are to blame.

There are teachers today who do next to nothing in class and, all the while, parents can do nothing to change the situation for their children as long as administrators turn a blind eye to it.

What we should understand as citizens is that it is morally reprehensible to turn a blind eye to rules, policies, and laws judged to be wrong for children by their own parents.

You can even pay off policeman to turn a blind eye to some of your illegal activities and assemble an army of children to bring you crafting items on the streets.

However, I'm also pretty sure if, for example, a women knows her boyfriend is sexually assaulting their child and turns a blind eye to it she can be convicted as an accomplice to the crime.

But by focusing on the politically palatable sales pitch of «protecting children,» the government has turned a blind eye to the true harms of the continued criminalization of marijuana.

In K.L.B. v. British Columbia, 2003 SCC 51, the Supreme Court of Canada gave the example of a parent who, «wanting to avoid trouble for herself and her household, turns a blind eye to the abuse of a child by her spouse.»

What's worse, I think, are the other messaging apps that have for years turned a blind eye to the fact that they have user bases filled with children — not just minors under the age of 18, but actual children, under the age of 13.

However, we would be turning a blind eye to many struggling families if we did not acknowledge that sometimes removing the child from the home is necessary.

They rallied around its provision to defund Planned Parenthood while turning a blind eye to the fact that this will lead mothers and their children, people with disabilities, and many more towards death or devastation.