SEX TRAFFICKING - TEXAS

A chapel and buildings located at Refuge Ranch in Bastrop. The Texas-contracted facility is meant to provide residential tre…

Nine employees of The Refuge, a Texas-contracted shelter for child sex trafficking survivors, are accused of trafficking children under their care, according to a federal judge. Credit: Via Refuge Ranch website

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, you can receive confidential help by calling the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network’s 24/7 toll-free support line at 800-656-4673 or visiting its online hotline.

Texas ordered a shelter for female foster kids who have been victims of sex trafficking to immediately shut down Friday, a day after a court revealed that staff members were trafficking the children in their care.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission issued an emergency suspension of The Refuge’s license to care for children and told shelter officials to close the facility immediately. The Refuge, in Bastrop, had been contracted by the state to care for victims of sexual assault between the ages of 11 and 17.

All of the children housed in the shelter had already been removed as of Wednesday.** SEE texastribune.org.

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! By any stretch of the imagination, we are not doing enough. We KNOW that foster care, CPS, HHS, etc. are some of the largest (over 23%) human trafficking organizations in the country. A sad fact when you see our tax dollars being budgeted to the same organizations that are supposed to save our children - not harm them. Where do we finally #SAVETHECHILDREN? Instead of shuffling them from one deepstate government funded organization - back to the hands of the traffickers (themselves) - then back to the same criminal government funded deepstate organizations - rinse and repeat?

WE are going to have to do it. Not through our tax dollars but directly, in our communIties. Our humanitarian efforts are more important than ever while the Biden crime oligarchs are in office now. We know we are going to have to totally dismantle and re-vet these organizations. How soon can we do it before thousands of children are beaten, traumatized, and sexually abused or killed again? The system is totally broken.

God, save our children. Amen