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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 09:43 AM Oct 2018

Arizona Shelter Shut In Latest Case Of Migrant Child Abuse

Source: Talking Points Memo/The AP



By Associated Press

October 11, 2018 8:45 am

PHOENIX (AP) — Staff members at a Phoenix-area shelter for unaccompanied migrant children physically abused three children, leading to the closure of the shelter, federal officials said. It was the latest in a series of incidents of alleged abuse involving staff members at shelters and children.

Southwest Key’s Hacienda del Sol shelter was shut down last Friday, but federal officials did not reveal the reason behind the closure until Tuesday.

The Texas-based federal contractor has fired the staffers involved in the Sept. 18 incident, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement.

The agency did not release additional details about the incident or how many staff members were involved.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/arizona-child-migrant-shelter-shut-abuse-staff

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Arizona Shelter Shut In Latest Case Of Migrant Child Abuse (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2018 OP
This abuse of children by the United States of America is infuriating. pazzyanne Oct 2018 #1
Child trafficking is very profitable when you shortchange the children. Only hire the 'best' peopl keithbvadu2 Oct 2018 #2
DHS secretary - We do not 'detain' children, we 'care for them' keithbvadu2 Oct 2018 #3
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Oct 2018 #4

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
1. This abuse of children by the United States of America is infuriating.
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 10:01 AM
Oct 2018

It's no wonder tRump pulled us out of the International Criminal Court. I expect to see him and Kirstin Nielsen before that court in the future. Children are the future of the world, and we are destroying that future.

keithbvadu2

(36,806 posts)
2. Child trafficking is very profitable when you shortchange the children. Only hire the 'best' peopl
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 10:12 AM
Oct 2018

Child trafficking is very profitable when you shortchange the children.

Only hire the 'best' people.

keithbvadu2

(36,806 posts)
3. DHS secretary - We do not 'detain' children, we 'care for them'
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 10:16 AM
Oct 2018

DHS secretary panics under questioning from Kamala Harris: We do not ‘detain’ children, we ‘care for them’

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142176556


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