Swordsmyth
10-04-2019, 08:06 PM
The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-health-and-human-services) is putting out a call for whistleblowers and concerned citizens to come forward to discuss child sex trafficking (https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-sex-trafficking) in the foster care (https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-foster-care) system. “The National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children in Youth in the United States (https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/partnerships/the-national-advisory-committee) has discussed vulnerabilities of children and youth who have interacted with foster care systems and is working on recommendations for professionals in these settings. We encourage everyone with specific ideas or recommendations to submit them in writing for the members’ consideration: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/otip/resource/nacpublic18,” the Committee exclusively told The Epoch Times on Friday, Oct. 4, the day the Committee held a public meeting on ways to combat child sex trafficking.
“If you have comments for the Committee, contact adonald@nhttac.org,” the committee’s official comments page states.
The Committee held its meeting in Alexandria, Virginia on the same day that parents staged a rally at the California state capitol in Sacramento to speak out against Child Protective Services (CPS), alleging widespread abuse and corruption in the CPS system.
The Epoch Times reported (https://www.theepochtimes.com/clinton-era-law-has-distorted-child-protective-services-say-parents_3096515.html) that the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), spearheaded by Hillary Clinton and signed into law in 1997 by her husband President Bill Clinton, created a program by which the federal government sends incentive checks to states for each child adopted out of foster care—with mandatory adoptions occurring when a child has been in foster care for 15 of the past 22 months.
The state of California, which officially labels all missing foster care children as “runaways,” has been rocked by allegations of child sex abuse (https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-failure-of-trust-child-molestation-in-the-contra-costa-cps_3058888.html/amp) in the Contra Costa County foster care system. The State Department’s 2019 human trafficking report stated that (https://www.theepochtimes.com/pipeline-from-foster-care-to-child-sex-trafficking-highlighted-in-state-departments-report_2972229.html) “in the United States, traffickers prey upon children in the foster care system.” President Donald Trump’s Family First Prevention and Services Act, which eliminates some financial incentives for removing children from their biological families, went into effect on Oct. 1 but some advocates say the law does not go far enough.
Public comments already started flowing in ahead of Friday’s meeting.
More at: https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-administration-asks-for-comments-on-child-sex-trafficking-in-foster-care-system_3106818.html
“If you have comments for the Committee, contact adonald@nhttac.org,” the committee’s official comments page states.
The Committee held its meeting in Alexandria, Virginia on the same day that parents staged a rally at the California state capitol in Sacramento to speak out against Child Protective Services (CPS), alleging widespread abuse and corruption in the CPS system.
The Epoch Times reported (https://www.theepochtimes.com/clinton-era-law-has-distorted-child-protective-services-say-parents_3096515.html) that the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), spearheaded by Hillary Clinton and signed into law in 1997 by her husband President Bill Clinton, created a program by which the federal government sends incentive checks to states for each child adopted out of foster care—with mandatory adoptions occurring when a child has been in foster care for 15 of the past 22 months.
The state of California, which officially labels all missing foster care children as “runaways,” has been rocked by allegations of child sex abuse (https://www.theepochtimes.com/a-failure-of-trust-child-molestation-in-the-contra-costa-cps_3058888.html/amp) in the Contra Costa County foster care system. The State Department’s 2019 human trafficking report stated that (https://www.theepochtimes.com/pipeline-from-foster-care-to-child-sex-trafficking-highlighted-in-state-departments-report_2972229.html) “in the United States, traffickers prey upon children in the foster care system.” President Donald Trump’s Family First Prevention and Services Act, which eliminates some financial incentives for removing children from their biological families, went into effect on Oct. 1 but some advocates say the law does not go far enough.
Public comments already started flowing in ahead of Friday’s meeting.
More at: https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-administration-asks-for-comments-on-child-sex-trafficking-in-foster-care-system_3106818.html