Posted on 03/12/2022 11:05:06 AM PST by Morgana
Young girls who were in a Texas Department of Family and Protective Services-contracted shelter for domestic minor sex trafficking survivors were abused and trafficked again by staffers at that very shelter, according to a report Thursday by the Texas Tribune.
The Refuge Ranch is located on a 50-acre property in Bastrop, Tex., about 30 miles east of the state’s capital city, Austin. It’s operated by a nonprofit organization called The Refuge for DMST™ (short for “Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking”), and their website describes how the girls are provided with “trauma-informed, holistic care” that includes education through a University of Texas-run charter school, medical care, psychiatric services, and other “various therapeutic programs uniquely designed for the development of a child survivor.” The website also lists numerous “partners” that include corporate donors, churches and other non-profits, and government partners like the Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office and the Office of the Governor of Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX).
The Refuge Ranch “is the largest long-term, live-in rehabilitation facility for child survivors of sex trafficking in the United States,” the website says.
It’s also the place where seven girls, ranging in age from 11 to 17 years old, were allegedly abused by a stunning total of nine Refuge employees — and were not removed from the facility for over a month after the abuse was first reported.
According to the Texas Tribune, a current Refuge employee reported to state authorities on Jan. 24 that these children “were sexually and physically abused and suffered from neglectful supervision and medical neglect” at the facility — but the court and the foster care system monitors appointed by the judge were not notified until Thursday.
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Apparently they thought the activity was therapy.
My mind is blown. Tell me do they just hire any person with a body temp of 98.6?
Texas?? Make steers out of the abusers.
Well, Bastrop is only 30 miles from La Grange, home of the old Chicken Ranch.. So it might have felt like a sort of welcome.
Is a bus from A&M on the way yet?
Hey, you can’t actually expect the government to perform an adequate background check on the people they hire do you?
They probably hired “culturally compatible” staff to work with the victims - and got the result that should have been expected.
9 known people involved and Abbott is sending in the Texas Rangers to investigate? WTH?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AALREbJZEZk
The Governor’s response has been well covered.
It’s called a “sidestep”.
Diversity hires. Very difficult to terminate.
There should be a punishment for this that would make the culprits sorry they had ever been born.
There won’t be. Mass migration and sex trafficking is the mothers milk of the US government. This is what they do pay for and support.
Everyone will be put on airliners and scattered through the country and that will be that.
Oh, I know. I was thinking about what would happen if I were in charge. Charlie Daniels’ song, “A Simple Man” has some good solutions.
Of course.
I would expect no less from our government.
Those poor girls. Will they ever trust anyone else again?
It does indeed. I miss Charlie, but I’m glad he isn’t here to see this destruction of America.
If you want to find child abusers look to where the bad guys find victims - shelters and elementary schools.
Remember when Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks. That’s where the money is.
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