SAN ANTONIO — Last year more than 500 children in the State’s care spent at least one night in an unlicensed state-run facility, that includes Child Protective Services caseworker’s offices, hotels, and other places. Investigative Reporter Yami Virgin shows us what one of those “other places” in Bexar County is like, according to federal monitors.
‘Institutionalized Abuse’ is what Federal Judge Janis Jack says the Texas Department of Family Protective Services is doing to children without placement, or CWOP, under the care of Child Protective Services.
"People need to know that the system is failing these children not just in the education, the sense of education, but also medically and physically and if they're supposed to be the guardian, the parent. There's an extreme, that failure, the Agency is failing these children and it's being brushed under the rug."
A whistleblower with the State who works with these children agreed to speak with us under a condition to protect their identity.
"I'm thinking it starts at the top. I believe that it starts with the administration, with the legislator, they need to come down and communicate effectively with these workers who are the boots on the ground and actually see and spend a day spend a week in their shoes and see how they're doing, the Agency is being operated, how these children are being placed in hotels in emergency facilities so they get a better glimpse of what's going on,” says the whistleblower.
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