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ItsjustMe

(11,230 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 10:43 AM Aug 2022

CPS Worker Caught On Camera Telling 14-Year-Old To Become A Sex Worker

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cps-worker-caught-on-camera-telling-14-year-old-to-become-a-sex-worker/ar-AA10Hw0l

A Child Protective Services worker in Houston, Texas is coming under fire after a video was released of her appearing to tell a child to become a sex worker.

Keisha Bazley, a mother of nine kids, called on CPS to help with her daughter, who she said was running away and causing trouble at school.

However, the teenager soon warned her mother that the worker had been making inappropriate suggestions to her.

The teenager said that the worker was telling her to go into sex work, and captured a video of the incident.

Bazley’s daughter asks the worker for food, but she received a very unexpected response.

The worker tells the girl “if you’re gonna be a h-e, be a real h-e.”

Bazley immediately filed a complaint with CPS after seeing the video.
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CPS Worker Caught On Camera Telling 14-Year-Old To Become A Sex Worker (Original Post) ItsjustMe Aug 2022 OP
Texas..... LakeArenal Aug 2022 #1
I dunno. Sounded a little sarcastic to me, not literal. no_hypocrisy Aug 2022 #2
Agree. live love laugh Aug 2022 #3
According to the young girl this wasn't the 1st time the suggestion was made Heather MC Aug 2022 #7
That's horrible. When my wife was in her late teens... NNadir Aug 2022 #4
Are you a female over the age of 10? intheflow Aug 2022 #5
Never ends does it Heather MC Aug 2022 #8
Project Veritas? rubbersole Aug 2022 #6
I don't think that fake "Project" would do something that ... ificandream Aug 2022 #9
 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
7. According to the young girl this wasn't the 1st time the suggestion was made
Wed Aug 17, 2022, 04:16 AM
Aug 2022

It was the 1st time she caught her on camera so for all we know she said a lot worse to the young lady.

And I'm not sure why making jokes about being a hoe is the appropriate thing to say when when a child in their care says they're hungry.🙄

That's an inappropriate time to be sarcastic

NNadir

(33,523 posts)
4. That's horrible. When my wife was in her late teens...
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 12:57 PM
Aug 2022

...a coworker - not a social worker - at a major corporation where my future wife was working as a temp, made the same suggestion. Needless to say, my wife, who was too scared to report it, and it probably wouldn't have made any difference in any case, never interacted with the woman again, but imagine going to someone for protection and then hearing this.

intheflow

(28,476 posts)
5. Are you a female over the age of 10?
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 01:44 PM
Aug 2022

Chances are real good someone has suggested this to you. It's awful that a CPS did this - especially to a kid who was looking to them for support - but this is endemic of a much larger societal problem. Some guy tried to recruit me into sex work when I was 12. Happened again at 14, 18, 26, and 36. At 56 I was encouraged to make a "granny" sex tape. I'm 58 now and waiting for the next suggestion from "helpful" people.

ificandream

(9,373 posts)
9. I don't think that fake "Project" would do something that ...
Wed Aug 17, 2022, 01:15 PM
Aug 2022

... would make them look like good guys to non-conservatives.

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