Kids for cash

  • Death

    Death

    Ed Kenakoski killed himself after all the following events happened to him following him being put in the prison
  • Again

    Again

    He was re-elected in 2005.
  • 95 percent

    95 percent

    millions of children are arrested every year in the US, 95% for non-violent crimes
  • Poor kids

    Poor kids

    There were 2,500 victims.
  • kids for cash

    kids for cash

    when a federal judge signed off on a settlement in which one of the businessmen Robert Powell would pay $4.75 million.
  • Problems

    Problems

    Every student sent there was different when they came out. It changed them in bad ways
  • Ciavarella convicted

    Ciavarella convicted

    Ciavarella was sentenced to 28 years in prison.
  • Erased

    Erased

    All the cases were dismissed and erased from their files.
  • Money

    Money

    Civarella made 2.2 million dollars off the kids he sent in.
  • No reason

    No reason

    Hillary Transue, 14, created a fake, humorous Myspace page about her school’s vice principal. Justin Bodnar, 12, cursed at another student’s mother. Ed Kenzakoski, 17, did nothing at all. And they were all sentenced to the prison.