Sex-trafficking sting highlights vulnerability of foster children

Taken from: http://www.infowars.com/foster-care-system-traps-children-into-vicious-cycle-of-sex-abuse-2/ Children rescued from sex abuse are placed right back into it. Lee Ann McAdoo Infowars.com August 1, 2013 The FBI raid that rescued 105 sexually exploited children from a sex trafficking ring last weekend has highlighted the vulnerability of foster children. Sixty percent of runaways who are victims of sex trafficking had been in the custody of child protective services. Many times when children are rescued from sex traffickers they are put right back into the foster care system to repeat the same vicious cycle. Victims may even recruit other children into the very abuse they had just left. With the “child protectors” snatching even more children into the system to get more federal funding, there has become a serious shortage of good foster parents to handle the surplus of children, which means the bar has been set really low for people who can qualify to foster. Click on the link above for more on the story. Posted by LATimes http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-child-sex-20130730,0,1571781.story "According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the information clearinghouse that tracks missing child reports in the United States, 60% of runaways who are victims of sex trafficking had been in the custody of social services or in foster care." Posted by LATimes http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-child-sex-20130730,0,1571781.story