20,000 Children Go Missing from Foster Care Every Year. 55 Children go missing every day.
~ 25 Investigates- Missing & Forgotten (Aired 5-23-18) – YouTube
~ Foster care children are easy prey for predators: They disappear without a real search – USA Today – VIDEO
- 25 Investigates- Missing and Forgotten foster kids – Boston 25 News
- Finding Missing Foster Children- Kids Who Disappear From State Care Often at Disadvantage – ABC News
- Foster care children are easy prey for predators: They disappear without a real search – USA Today
- How can social services lose 18,000 children – and not look for them? Opinion: Many of the children sold as sex slaves were in the care of social services when they went missing. Aren’t these agencies supposed to keep kids safe? – AZ Central
- Missing and Forgotten- Thousands of foster kids kicked out of the system – Boston 25 News
- The other child tragedy- The tens of thousands of children the foster system has lost – The Dallas Morning News
- The other missing children scandal- Thousands of lost American foster kids – The Washington Post
- “They Took Us Away From Each Other”- Lost Inside America’s Shadow Foster System — ProPublica
- Thousands of children in care disappear each year – Channel 4 News
- Who’s Looking for Foster Care’s Lost Children? – ABC News
- Children Are Misplaced or Lost in Our Foster Care System – www.HNewsWire.com
- Disappearing & Dying- Why 20,000 kids disappear from foster care every year & how to end the crisis – Gen Justice
Arizona
~ 267 children in DCS system listed as missing in Arizona – YouTube
Florida
~ DCF: Jeb Bush’s Legacy – Justin Part 1 – Child Abuse – CPS – YouTube
~ DCF- Jeb Bush’s Legacy – Justin Part 2 – Child Abuse – CPS – YouTube
~ FOX 35 INVESTIGATES- Florida’s foster care system – YouTube
- ADVOCATES- DCF FAILS CHILDREN – Sun Sentinel
- Fla. Has Lost Hundreds of Foster Kids – ABC News
- Jeb Bush’s Florida Lost 500 Kids – Daily Beast
- SOME CHILDREN IN STATE CARE MAY NOT BE FOUND, DCF SAYS – Orlando Sentinel
Kansas
- 18 of KS foster children found last week; 58 still missing – The Wichita Eagle
- For Kansas Foster Care Task Force, Report Of Missing Children Latest Concern – KCUR 89.3 – NPR in Kansas City
- ‘We just want them to come home.’ Three young Kansas sisters missing from foster home – The Kansas City Star
Kentucky
- Home is where the heart is, for missing foster kids, too – Wave3 News
- Lost in foster care- Problems persist – Wave3 News
Missouri
~ Lawmakers questioning how 70 foster children could possibly go missing – YouTube
~ Report- Missouri’s foster care system needs to do more to track missing children – YouTube
- Child advocate responds as report issued on nearly 1,000 foster care kids missing in Missouri – KY3
- Federal report criticizes Missouri foster care system – KAIT 8
- ‘It’s just disturbing’- Missouri officials grilled after report finds 1,000 foster kids went missing in 2019 – MSN
- Nearly 1,000 foster care kids missing in Missouri according to report – Justice for Kids
- Nearly 1,000 Missouri foster kids have gone missing – FOX 2
- Report- MO foster care not protecting missing children – KSHB 41
- Report- Missouri falling short on protecting foster children from going missing – stltoday.com
- State Officials Grilled Over Report on Missing Foster Kids – US News
Ohio
~ Missing foster children – YouTube
~ The plight of missing runaways across Ohio – WRGT – Video
Facts and Stats – Missing Foster Children
- ~ AMERICA’S MISSING FOSTER CHILDREN – Gen Justice – PDF
- ~ Children Missing from Care – MissingKids.org
Reports – Missing Foster Children
- Audit of States’ Efforts To Locate IV-E Eligible Children Missing From Foster Care – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – Office of Inspector General
- DISAPPEARING AND DYING: Why 20,000 kids disappear from foster care every year and how to end this crisis. – GEN JUSTICE – PDF
Foster Care is a Pipeline for Sex Trafficking
~ Foster care children at risk for sex-trafficking recruitment – YouTube
~ Hearing on Preventing Foster Youth Trafficking Featured on MSNBC – YouTube
~ Foster Care and Sex Trafficking – C-SPAN.org – VIDEO
- 60% of sex, human trafficking victims once involved in foster care system – HNewsWire.com
- Foster Care and Human Trafficking- Cause and Effect – Hyde County Hotline
- Foster Care and Sex Trafficking Survivor Testifies on Hill – ABC News
- Foster Care Youths at Risk for Child Sex Trafficking – Social Work Today
- Pipeline From Foster Care to Child Sex Trafficking Highlighted in State Department Report – The Epoch Times
- Sex-trafficking sting highlights vulnerability of foster children – Los Angeles Times
- Stopping the Foster Care to Child Trafficking Pipeline – HuffPost
- We Have Set Up a System to Sex Traffic American Children – Newsweek
- Why Human Traffickers Prey on Foster-Care Kids – City Limits
- Without family, U.S. children in foster care easy prey for human traffickers – Reuters
~ NCMEC Report: 88% of TRAFFICKED KIDS Come From FOSTER CARE – YouTube
- 60% of Trafficked Children Once in Foster Care – FreedomUnited.org
- 88% of Missing Sex Trafficked Children Come from US Foster Care (NCMEC Report) – Prepare For Change
- Chilling NCMEC Report Shows 88% of Missing Sex Trafficked Kids Come from US Foster Care – Activist Post
- Chilling NCMEC Report Shows 88% of Missing Sex Trafficked Kids Come from US Foster Care – The Free Thought Project
- Sex Trafficked Foster Kids- It’s More Common Than You Think – Foster Care Newsletter
- Shocking Numbers of Sex Trafficking Victims Come Out of Foster Care – Alternet.org
- Three-Fourths of Rescued Children Came from Foster Care – Parental Rights Foundation
- U.S. Marshals Service Reveals Majority of Rescued Sex-Trafficked Children Came From Foster Care – PJ Media
~ Foster Care to Sex Trafficking Pipeline- It’s REAL here’s the proof! – YouTube
- America’s Foster Care System Is the Pipeline For Child Sex Trafficking – The Last American Vagabond
- Foster Care and the Pipeline to Human Trafficking – Anti-Trafficking International
- Foster Care Continues to be Child Sex Trafficking Pipeline in 2020 – How Do We Stop It? – Medical Kidnap
- Foster Care Continues To Be Child Sex Trafficking Pipeline In 2020 – Niki´s Opinion Forum
- Stopping the Pipeline from Foster Care to Sex Trafficking – FreedomUnited.org
- The Foster Care to Human Trafficking Pipeline- Why Children and Teens in Foster Care are More Likely to Be Trafficked – SOS Children’s Villages Illinois
- 5 Reasons Foster Youth Become Human Trafficking Victims – Engage Together
- Child Kidnapping and Trafficking- A Lucrative U.S. Business Funded by Taxpayers Called “Foster Care” – Medical Kidnap
- Child Sex Abuse and Trafficking Through Foster Care Continues in the U.S. – Medical Kidnap
- Domestic Child Sex Trafficking and Children in Foster Care – Justice Clearinghouse
- Foster Care’s Continuing Human Trafficking Problem – Foster Focus
- Is Child Protective Services Trafficking Children? – PJ Media
- Los Angeles Trying New Tactics to Help Children, Many in Foster Care, Who Are Sexually Trafficked – Youth Today
- Sex Trafficking – National Foster Youth Institute
- The Best and Worst States in Protecting Foster Youth from Being Trafficked – Human Trafficking Search
- The U.S. Foster Care System: Modern Day Slavery and Child Trafficking – Medical Kidnap
~ BREAKING THE CYCLE – Directed-Produced by Arzo Yusuf – YouTube
- 5 Reasons Foster Youth Become Human Trafficking Victims – Engage Together
- Documentary on Connection Between Foster Care, Homelessness and Human Trafficking – The Imprint
- How Children in Foster Care Fall Victim to Child Sex Trafficking – The Good Men Project
Arizona
~ New film “Wake Up” puts spotlight on child sex trafficking in Tucson and rest of U.S. – YouTube
- Arizona CPS Worker Exposes Child Sex Ring in Foster Care System – News Punch
- Arizona Foster Care System Revealed as Pedophile Ring Former Foster Child Tortured for Years Sues for $15 Million – Medical Kidnap
California
- 474 Arrested, 28 Sexually Exploited Children Rescued During Statewide Human Trafficking Operation- LASD – KTLA
- County Foster Kids Recruited as Child Prostitutes Belmont Shore – CA Patch
- L.A. County plans court to help child prostitutes – Los Angeles Times
- Sheriff- 474 arrests in Calif. human trafficking sting; 28 children rescued – CBS News
- State official links troubled foster care system to human trafficking – Los Angeles Times
Florida
- DCF Worker Accused Of Having Sex With Teen Arrested In New York – CBS Miami
- Crisis in Florida- Four Arrested For Running Foster Care Prostitution Ring – Children’s Rights
- Four charged with running foster child prostitution ring – Miami Herald
- Social worker arrested during major investigation into ‘Florida foster care child prostitution ring’ – Daily Mail Online
Kansas
- Kansas Foster Care Instability Led To Surge In Runaways, Left Children Vulnerable To Sex Traffickers – KCUR 89.3 – NPR in Kansas City
- Runaway foster kids at higher risk for sex trafficking – The Wichita Eagle
Massachusetts
Michigan
New York
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
~ News 13 Special Report: Human trafficking victims in foster care – VIDEO
Texas
~ Children in Foster Care and Human Trafficking – YouTube
Reports – Foster Care and Child Sex Trafficking
- An Unholy Alliance The Connection between Foster Care and Human Trafficking – Human Trafficking Search- FULL REPORT PDF
- Examining the Link- Foster Care Runaway Episodes and Human Trafficking Victimization – 2020 FULL REPORT PDF
- Foster Care and Human Trafficking – A State by State Evaluation – Human Trafficking Research – PDF
- Missing Children, State Care, and Child Sex Trafficking – MissingKids.org – PDF
Sexual Abuse
~ 36 cases of sexual abuse in state foster care system – YouTube
~ Child sexually abused in foster care – YouTube
~ Foster agency admits children left with abuser – YouTube
~ Foster parent arrested for child sexual assault – YouTube
~ ‘I was kidnapped and raped’ Foster child calls out group home for negligence – YouTube
~ Sexual abuse victim recounts horrors of foster care – YouTube
- 1,000 California Foster Care Homes Match Sex Offender Addresses Report – HuffPost
- Chattanooga foster dad sentenced to probation for rape of teen – Chattanooga Times Free Press
- Ex-foster child of convicted pedophile files $15M claim against Arizona DCS – Tucson.com
- Foster parent accused of sexually abusing girls for nearly 20 years – KRQE News
- Girl, 7, given two STIs by paedo foster parent – just months after being placed into care because of sexual abuse at home – The Sun
- Girl Taken From Parents by CPS, Raped and Tortured by Foster Parents – News Punch
- Russian former foster parent sentenced to 22 years for committing over 900 rapes and-or sex attacks – TheBlaze
- Sacramento Mom Says She Learned Through News That Foster Parent Was Arrested on Suspicion of Child Porn – KTLA 5
- Seattle Mayor Ed Murray sexually abused foster son, child welfare investigator found in 1984 – Seattle Times
- Sexual Abuse, Fraud and Negligence Alleged at Closed Centralia Home for Boys – chronline.com
- Sexual abuse of children in care homes, foster care rampant in English county, report says – Fox News
- Sheriff- S.A.-area man accused of sexually assaulting 5 foster children took in 180+ girls – My Sanantonio
- State says 1,000 care facilities match sex offender addresses – Los Angeles Times
- 1,000 California Foster Care Homes Match Sex Offender Addresses Report – Fight Corrupted Family Courts and CPS
- Addition 22 – StateFoster Care Child Sex Abuse (Warning Contains sensitive media) Is THIS Love – A Mother’s Plea
- Billion Dollar Children for Profit Industry- Foster Care Deaths and Sexual Abuses – Medical Kidnap
- Florida Foster Parents Charged with Hundreds of Sex Crimes Against Children in Alabama – Medical Kidnap
- Investigation into Records of Sexually Abused Foster Kids Ensnares Seattle Mayor – The Free Thought Project
- Massachusetts State Auditor Finds Widespread Rape and Sexual Abuse in Foster Care but DCF Officials Won’t Report It – Medical Kidnap
- “Pedophile Farm” Alleged in Lawsuit Against Washington Foster Care Home for Boys – Medical Kidnap
- Sex Abuse and the Foster Care System – Focus for Health
- Sexual Abuse: An Epidemic in Foster Care Settings? – HG.org
Foster Children Who Get Pregnant Give Up Children Into Foster Care
~ Report: Texas Foster Care Girls More Likely To Get Pregnant – YouTube
- Breaking the vicious cycle of foster care – Los Angeles Times
- Foster Children Turned into Breeders: CPS Seizes Half of All Babies Born to Teen Moms in Foster Care – Medical Kidnap
- For girls in the Texas foster care system, teen pregnancy is 5 times more likely – The Texas Tribune
- Half of Kids Born to Teen Moms in Foster Care Will Wind Up in Foster Care – The Imprint
- Teen Pregnancy Among Young Women In Foster Care: A Primer – Guttmacher Institute
- The Cycle of Child Protection Services Involvement: A Cohort Study of Adolescent Mothers – FULL REPORT PDF
- Understanding the Intergenerational Cycle of Child Protective Service Involvement – FULL REPORT PDF
Foster Children Suffer Years of Abuse
~ Former foster children say they endured abuse for years – YouTube
~ Rethinking foster care- Molly McGrath Tierney at TEDxBaltimore 2014 – YouTube
~ Silent Voices Episode 92 on Vimeo
~ Video- Defenders Debrief- ‘Broken System’ Special – YouTube
- Dozens rally for foster care reform – Montana Right Now
- Flooded by foster kids, Florida failed to find safe homes – USA Today
- Foster Care as Punishment- The New Reality of ‘Jane Crow’ – The New York Times
- Fostering Profits- Abuse And Neglect At America’s Biggest For-Profit Foster Care Company – Buzz Feed News
- Foster mother arrested after death of infant in Forney home – The Dallas Morning News
- Foster mother convicted of 2nd-degree murder in girl’s beating death – Los Angeles Times
- Her child died of ghastly abuse; she could still be a nurse – Miami Herald
- How the foster care-to-prison pipeline trapped the Hart children’s biological brother – The Washington Post
- Nowhere to call home- Thousands of foster children move so much they risk psychological harm – Tampa Bay Times
- Report: Foster Kids Face Tough Times After Age 18 – NPR
- A Critical Look at Foster Care- How Widespread a Problem? – Lifting the Veil
- Abuse in Foster Care- Research vs. the Child Welfare System’s Alternative Facts – Youth Today
- Foster Care- Protecting Kids or Harming Them? – Liberty Nation
- The Brief Life and Private Death of Alexandria Hill – Mother Jones
- The Horrors of Foster Care Abuse Statistics – Ritholz Law
- These Children are Mine and the State Can’t Have Them – Clash Daily
- This is not okay – Visualizing foster care placement instability – robertlathamesq.org
Arizona
- A horrifying journey through Arizona foster care, and why we don’t know how many more children may be abused – AZ Central
- Arizona child welfare: There are some issues we just won’t let go – AZ Central
- Arizona Department of Child Safety faces claims of $37M over abuse – AZ Central
- Baby died in care of foster father; mother wants child remembered – AZ Central
- Arizona Child Removed from Loving Family and Placed into Foster Care Where She was Repeatedly Raped – then 80% of Body Burned – Medical Kidnap
- HORRIBLE CHILD ABUSE BLAMED ON ARIZONA AGENCIES – The Crime Victims Center
- Horrible Child Abuse Blamed on Arizona Agencies – Courthouse News
Florida
- Flooded by foster kids, Florida failed to find safe homes – USA Today
- Florida took thousands of kids from families, then failed to keep them safe. – USA Today
- Foster kids starved, beaten and molested, reports show. Few caregivers are punished. – USA Today
Illinois
Michigan
Oregon
- ‘I was so broken’- 14 years in foster care – Statesman Journal
- ‘I Was So Broken’- 14 Years In Oregon’s Foster Care System – OPB
Children Murdered in Foster Care
~ Hearing reveals disturbing new details in homicide by child abuse case – YouTube
~ Photos released of 3-year-old killed in homicide case involving cooking show winner – YouTube
~ Simpsonville woman convicted of homicide by child abuse, sentenced to life in prison – YouTube
- Ariel Robinson cries on the stand- ‘Tori was perfect’ – Cleveland 19
- Food Network player Ariel Robinson accused of killing foster kid Victoria -Tori- Rose Smith to testify – New York Post
- Girl, 3, who was ‘beaten to death by Food Network star adoptive mom and her husband’ is buried in emotional funeral – The Sun
- ‘Worst Cooks in America’ winner charged with killing daughter tweeted about kids’ white privilege – New York Post