South Mobile students still suffering from spill

MOBILE, Ala. — For the children of south Mobile County, the effects of 2010?s Deepwater Horizon oil spill didn’t wash away as shorelines were cleared of tarballs and as waters reopened to fishing.

Their pains are still evident every day at school.

A number of children and teens whose parents lost their jobs are living in houses with no electricity or running water, so they’re coming to class in dirty uniforms, according to counselors. Some are washing their clothes and taking showers at school, hoping their classmates don’t notice.

Also, counselors said, there are families that can no longer afford their children’s medication for attention deficit disorder or other ailments, so the kids are acting out in class, and getting into fights.

Counselors said they are working with three emotionally scarred girls who were prostituted out by family members to get money.

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