Judge says kids' shelter in horrible shape

DECATUR - A DeKalb County Juvenile Court judge has blasted the county&#39;s emergency shelters for children, citing drugs and prostitution as some of the reasons he issued an order two weeks earlier not to send anyone to the shelter. <br> <br> Judge Robin Nash testified Friday during the second day of hearings over a lawsuit against the state welfare department. <br> <br> In his Oct. 31 order, Nash also wrote state officials and criticized them for trying to build a new facility for DeKalb&#39;s shelter kids. In the letter Nash said he was ashamed to be part of the system that would allow that, and that he had blood on his hands, according to a story today in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. <br> <br> Lawyers for the state called on the county&#39;s chief juvenile court judge to refute Nash&#39;s statement. <br> <br> Judge Gregory Adams said he didn&#39;t agree with Nash&#39;s order and thought it went beyond what he should have been doing. <br> <br> The plaintiffs are nine children who either are now or have been in the system.

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