Did you know that there was a study done recently that showed children in states custody made up 90% of child trafficking victims?

[worldscolide]

I honestly thought it was a joke, and by recent study I mean last 15 years. But apparently it's true.

While Child Protective Services (CPS) itself is not engaged in child trafficking, studies have consistently shown that children and youth in the child welfare and foster care systems are at an increased and disproportionate risk of being trafficked

- A heightened risk for vulnerable children: Children in foster care, group homes, and those who run away are highly susceptible to being targeted and exploited by traffickers. These children often lack stable family support and may have had basic emotional and physical needs unmet. Traffickers exploit this vulnerability by promising to meet those needs.

- High correlation between child welfare and trafficking: Up to 90% of children identified as sex trafficking victims have had prior involvement with child welfare services. In 2014, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported that 68% of likely sex trafficking victims who had run away were in the care of social services or foster care when they disappeared.

- Gaps in screening and intervention: Despite federal laws requiring states to have procedures for identifying and assisting trafficked children in foster care, some states still lack sufficient protocols for screening at-risk youth. This creates "missed opportunities" for early identification and intervention by child welfare workers.


www.ncjfcj.org/.../

And people wonder why people like me who has been in foster care do not trust it even slightly.

[sage2021]

All I can say is when these abused children grow up and get away from sex traffickers they hunt down the CPS workers, and then it's do onto others as they have done onto you.

I have never met a nice social worker who wasn't a witch!
They go to college to become social workers, and you'd think it would be to help families and children, but they are as mean as snakes!🐍

I'm having trouble with my son right now. Because of his learning disabilities and because I can't take care of him anymore, he is in a program through the State who finds a family home for him vs a group home.

They moved him far away from me and refuse to give me the address where he is living and I don't know why. They only gave me a landline phone number and the mentors first name.

I called our lawyer (who is retired) to find out what's going on. He said he would find out what's going on but he just keeps putting me off. Texting me messages that say "Hang tuff."

I want to know where my son is!! I'm just beside myself!! He's my son and they've always given me his address and phone number before so I don't know what's going on.

Help!! 😔

[sage2021]

Thank you for the MHO 😊

[LazerBean]

Not surprising, children from broken homes have a disadvantage in every aspect of life. It is very sad.

[MrOracle]

Unfortunately the foster care system is far too easy to exploit, and there are way too many people in the system just for the money, which means they don't care about the kids and will do everything they can to keep the money. It's obviously not a very long distance from there to trafficking the children for money.

The only one standing in the way of that is the case worker, and while some are good, too many are also just there for the paycheck and either don't do their job or can be bought off.

And there are far too many kids in the system in the first place - a fault of the parents in most cases - so the system is overloaded and prime for abuse.

Like so many things, we don't incentivize the right things - and often incentivize the wrong things - and then we are surprised by the abject failures of the system..

[Sal_Monella]

I knew that you were just about to post links that prove that. Weren't you?

[worldscolide]

Read the whole freaking question, there is a link second line from the bottom... Do better dude.

[exitseven]

I believe this. CPS notoriously pays the counselors very low wages. As a result they do not attract the best talent. Many are running their own scams on the side.

[worldscolide]

well on top of this. CPS agents aren't required to be trained even in the basics of the law. Which leads to them breaking the constitutional rights of parents all the time.

[worldscolide]

i saw this ring video recently where CPS was at the door of the home owner, and they tried to tell him that they had a removal order for his children and they needed to come in. He told them no, not without a warrant. and they tried to tell him that they didn't need one. that they also didn't need a hearing or any court to do it either. He basically told them that they had 30 seconds to get off of his property or he would exercise his 2nd amendment rights. they left in a hurry. he later sued them because apparently his neighbor reported him as a form of revenge.

[exitseven]

@worldscolide I had a friend that went to an expensive college to get a degree in Mental Health. then she went to another expensive college to get an MS in Counseling just to get a job with CPS for a little more than minimum wage. It was nuts but she had rich parents..

[worldscolide]

yeah they dont pay their people enough either.

[seeyounexttuesday]

It doesn't surprise me at all.

[worldscolide]

Yeah I don't care what side of the aisle a person is on, we as a nation need to do better.

[seeyounexttuesday]

Indeed.

[dustybiker2]

Lost souls.

[worldscolide]

It's sad. All I know is we need to do better.

If I never told you, I was in foster care from the age of 11 to the age of 16.. Doesn't sound like much, but most of that time was at a place, a group home for boys, it was a religious place. And if I chose not to participate in church three times per day, I was beaten, drugged, and placed in isolation for weeks at a time with pit access to food, clean water, or a bathroom, I was made to sleep in my own excrement.. Eventually the dcf (department of children and families) figured out what happened, and I was removed, and the staff was mostly arrested.. But that is just a small taste of what kids go through when in states custody.

[dustybiker2]

That is awful. I'm glad you were able to have some justice and weren't ignored. I hope it helped others too.

[worldscolide]

Yeah me too.

[Colin234234]

Shit