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When children are abused in foster care
It appears to have happened again.
Since 2006, when 3-year-old Marcus Fiesel died at the hands his Butler County Children Services foster parents, the issue of children being abused in foster care has been a contentious one.
On Tuesday, a local 16-year-old who ran away after he was allegedly abused in a foster home in Warren County, was returned to the agency’s care safe — but not unharmed. Click here for the child’s story.
It was just in May that the agency launched an ongoing investigation into another allegation of abuse in Trenton.
Agency Director Michael Fox said children being abused in foster care is shockingly common. An e-mail to this effect he sent to the paper incensed foster parents, who say Fox doesn’t support foster homes enough.
Said Fox Tuesday: “As we’ve said, even when the system works and we do everything right, bad people do bad things to children. That is unfortunately the case here.”
What do you think? Is there anything that can be done?
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