2/ In 2015, a 15-year-old Honduran boy awoke in his Tucson, AZ immigrant shelter multiple times to find a youth care worker tickling his stomach and rubbing his penis. https://propub.li/2LUKZMF pic.twitter.com/xMcHCHjTMM
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1/ We obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children. In the following tweets, we’ll share some of the most disturbing records we found.https://propub.li/2LUKZMF
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3/ The worker was later convicted of molestation. https://propub.li/2LUKZMF pic.twitter.com/zg26yp9G5x
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4/ In 2017, a 17-year-old Honduran boy reported being sexually harassed and groped by a staff member at a Tucson shelter. The boy locked himself in a bathroom stall when days later he was approached again. https://propub.li/2LUKZMF pic.twitter.com/z1oRgGod1j
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5/ In 2016, a 15-year-old boy at a shelter in Bethlehem, PA reported that he was forced into oral sex by another boy at the shelter. https://propub.li/2LUKZMF pic.twitter.com/UXsGgkUoC1
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6/ But the Salisbury Township Police Department closed the case one month later, citing “conflicting accounts of the events.” https://propub.li/2LUKZMF pic.twitter.com/D0sNU4ppFL
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7/ Additional police reports & court records include descriptions of staff members sending nude photos to minors and a teenager threatening to rape another teen. In total, we have records of 125 calls reporting sex offenses at shelters that primarily serve immigrant youth.
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8/ The Department of Health and Human Services’ director of refugee resettlement programs, Scott Lloyd, declined our request for an interview. The agency said it has a zero-tolerance policy for all forms of sexual abuse or inappropriate behavior at shelters.
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9/ Read more about our investigation into sexual abuse at immigrant youth shelters:https://propub.li/2LUKZMF
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This is horrifying.
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Seems whenever vulnerable children are put in an institutional setting, the predators follow. Terrible.
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