Victims are emotional during a news conference with survivors of abused and neglected youth at residential treatment facilities and advocates, on the need for Congress to act to protect children and reform RTFs, Wednesday, June 12, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
More than a dozen states don’t track when multiple abuses happen at a single facility or across facilities owned by the same company, the HHS OIG report found. States are also not consistently sharing information about abuse, even when it occurs at facilities owned by companies that operate across the country.Louisiana becomes first state to allow surgical castration as punishment for child molestersFederal taxpayers spend billions of dollars on foster care for thousands of children around the country. Some children are placed with families in homes or with their relatives.