http://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/crime/2017/02/13/problem---texas-sex-trafficking-pipeline/97810852/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=FBook&utm_campaign=PVs
"She entered Texas’ long-term foster care system. For the next six years, she cycled through 19 homes and institutions. She was brutally punished in some of those places — thrown to the ground and restrained, made to stand on milk crates for hours — and sexually assaulted. She attended nine different schools. She wound up in the emergency room twice for suicidal thoughts."
"Like too many kids in the state's care, she disappeared into the underworld of sex trafficking."
"Stories like Mia's are tragically common: Recent estimates suggest Texas is home to some 80,000 child sex-trafficking victims, kids who — in one way or another — end up being sold to adults for sex."
"Eighty-six percent of missing children suspected of being forced into sex work came from the child welfare system, national data show, and a state-funded study estimated that the vast majority of young victims in Texas had some contact with Child Protective Services. Interviews with law enforcement and child advocates around the state tell a similar story."
The article goes on to describe the efforts to combat and prosecute but when it comes to funding, they claim they need more funding. I think this article is great up to that point. I think we all started to redpill these past few months when it comes to the foster system in this country. The article itself is still a great read and a great article to share with the exception of that option that they need more funding to keep better track of the kids.
Thoughts?
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Littleredcorvette ago
I would love to see outcome reports for the children exiting CPS. Who were sent back to parents, aged out, adopted out, and what is their current situation? Dead, alive, employed, higher ed, homeless, etc.
Odal ago
I don't have them off the top of my heads, but Tom Woods had Carlos Morales on his show discussing this topic (Morales is a CPS whistleblower). Nearly half of all foster kids who age out of the system are homeless at age 18. Mental illness, drugs, crime, death, are all much more common in kids who've been through the foster care system.