Off-duty cops hired to provide security to foster children sleeping in hotels and other makeshift facilities have shocked with a stun gun, handcuffed and...
“These children come into care already damaged and to have this happen to them,” she said, shaking her head.
Private foster care providers sometimes refuse to accept children with the most engrained behavioral and emotional problems. Child Protective Services has been forced to use its own caseworkers to serve as 24/7 babysitters on top of their regular jobs.The predicament has led to dire outcomes. Staff have been assaulted. Children have run away, with some winding up sexually assaulted or dead.
“The state is basically throwing up its hands and saying, ‘we can’t find those and so we’re going to warehouse these children in hotels and bad things are happening,’” he said. “Blaming the children by saying ‘you know people could get hurt so we’re going to get police officers’ is shameful.”
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