Article 6SY7Q Victims of ‘kids-for-cash’ judge outraged by Biden pardon: ‘What about all of us?’

Victims of ‘kids-for-cash’ judge outraged by Biden pardon: ‘What about all of us?’

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Maya Yang
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Michael Conahan was convicted of accepting $2.8m for jailing more than 2,300 children, some as young as eight

Victims of a former Pennsylvania judge convicted in the so-called kids-for-cash scandal are outraged by Joe Biden's decision to grant him clemency.

In 2011, Michael Conahan was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison after he and another judge, Mark Ciavarella, were found guilty of accepting $2.8m in illegal payments in exchange for sending more than 2,300 children - including some as young as eight years old - to private juvenile detention centers.

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