Massachusetts State Auditor Finds Widespread Rape and Sexual Abuse in Foster Care but DCF Officials Won’t Report It (part 3)
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by Terri LaPoint
Health Impact News
Evidence of Abuse in Foster Care Ignored, or Worse
Usually, when the real parents point out the injuries to social workers, their concerns are brushed aside or swept under the rug. The children are silenced, told by social workers not to say anything to their parents. It is extremely rare that anything is done about the abuse.
In one of the most extreme cases, when a biological mother recognized signs that her daughter was being abused and molested in foster care, social workers brought her concerns to the judge, accusing the mother of making it up and “sabotaging” the placement of her child. That was actually used as grounds to terminate her parental rights.
However, the mother was right. The foster “father” currently sits in prison for being part of a pedophile pornography ring. He was using the children for sex trafficking. See:
When the children come home, they often tell their parents horror stories – abuse from which their loving family was rendered powerless to protect them. Most former foster children have nightmares and night terrors after they come home, and they often have fears they didn’t have before. Some have PTSD.
As we have reported many times, children in foster care are at least 6 times more likely to be abused, molested, raped, or killed in foster care than they are in their own homes, even if their own homes were troubled. See:
Foster Care Children are Worse Off than Children in Troubled Homes – The Child Trafficking Business
Foster Children Funneled into Sex Trafficking
There is evidence that Child Protective Services funnels some foster children into the child sex trafficking trade. According to a report by the Los Angeles Times, over 1000 registered sex offenders were on the list of state-approved foster care providers and facilities, in Los Angeles County alone.
Many sources cite that at least half of sex trafficking victims come from foster care, and some cite figures that are as high as 90%.
See:
Child Sex Trafficking through Child “Protection” Services Exposed – Kidnapping Children for Sex
Massachusetts Governor Refuses to Acknowledge Problem or Enforce Accountability – Adds More Money to DCF Budget Instead
Since the auditor’s scathing report was released, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has pushed back. Mass Live reports the governor’s response that the audit was “irresponsible” and that it went back to a time period before he took office.
According to WBZ 4 in Boston, he has addressed the well-publicized short-comings of DCF by throwing another $100 million at the problem, hiring almost 400 new social workers, and changing some policies.
A massive influx of more money and social workers will never fix the problems of Child Protective Services. All that does is ensure that MORE children will be funneled into the terribly-broken system.
Auditor Suzanne Bump responded to the governor’s defense by pointing out that no one has been held accountable for the failures of the system. Even if the cases involved in the audit happened before the governor took office, his administration has not dealt with those who should have been held accountable.
“Those kids were victimized and nobody paid a price,” Bump told WBZ’s Ryan Kath. “That’s not serving children well. It’s not serving the agency well. And it’s not serving the public well.”
Governor Baker is no newcomer to the problems with DCF. He has a long involvement with the agency dating back more than 25 years. He was appointed in 1991 as Undersecretary of Health and Human Services, of which DCF is a part. In 1992, he was promoted to the head of the agency.
Abusers in Foster Care Going Unpunished – Change Desperately Needed to Protect Children
Suzanne Bump’s audit has revealed what parents involved in the system already know – that children in the system are being hurt in foster care and nothing is being done about it.
Those who fail to address the abuse of children in state care must be held accountable, and the abusers, who are committing crimes against children, must face consequences.
A simple way of protecting many of these children would be to simply not place them into the system in the first place. The approach of taking children “just in case” and sorting it out later during long, drawn out battles in family and juvenile court must end.
Many, more than half and possibly as many as 3/4 of the children placed into state care, are suffering abuse at the hands of the very system charged with protecting them.
All of them suffer from the trauma of being separated from their families.
Children are better off without this kind of “protection.” Those children who are truly abused at home often are the very ones left in their homes, due to not being “adoptable.” Child abuse is a crime, and must be treated as such.
Child “Protection” System is Really Child ADOPTION System
The public believes it is the “Child Protective System,” designed to protect abused children.
What most do not realize is that it has become the “Child ADOPTION System,” with the ultimate goal of maximizing federal funds. Therefore, the children who are truly in need of protection are not protected, because they are seen by those in the system as damaged goods who are unadoptable.
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