State legislative leaders called Friday for investigative hearings into a foster care...
Brooke Crowder, CEO and founder of The Refuge, speaks during a media briefing concerning two separate incidents on the campus of their foster care home for girls who have been sexually trafficked, Friday, Mar., 11, 2022 in Austin. State legislative leaders called Friday for investigative hearings into a foster care facility where employees are accused of exploiting sex trafficking victims, while the facility’s operators say the claims are being misrepresented.
The Rangers investigation was ordered by Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday night following an emergency court hearing called by a U.S. District judge presiding over a decade-long class-action lawsuit alleging mistreatment of children in state care. DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters told the judge Thursday night that she was not made aware of the situation until then. “There is no excuse for why I didn’t know, which is why several people are losing their jobs,” she said.Texas foster care home was supposed to help sex trafficked kids. Instead, it’s accused of trafficking them.
“This is a terrible example, but only one example, of what children face every day in the foster care system in our state,” he said. “And it needs to be fixed and it will never be fixed until the top leadership gets serious about actually making changes.”The Bastrop facility was closed under an emergency order issued by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission on Friday.
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