Thousands of migrant children report they were sexually assaulted in the US

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Thousands of migrant children who crossed the southern border into the U.S. have reported they were sexually assaulted while in government custody, according to Department of Health and Human Services documents released Tuesday by Rep. Ted Deutch's office.

In the past four years, 4,556 children said they were sexually assaulted while in the care of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement, which takes custody of unaccompanied minors who cross the southern border alone and those who are separated from their families. 

Allegations go back to 2015, meaning the reported assaults started under the Obama administration. But the allegations have increased in the past two years after the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy that led to at least 2,800 family separations flooding the department with additional children.

The data show the majority of the alleged assaults were carried out by other minors in custody, but at least 178 were carried out by staff.

"These documents detail an environment of systemic sexual assaults by staff on unaccompanied children," said Deutch, a Democrat from Florida, in a House Judiciary Committee meeting Tuesday. "These documents tell us that there is a problem with adults, employees of HHS, sexually abusing children."

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/thousands-migrant-children-reported-were-193007313.html

 

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Jesus ****ing christ. This country makes me sick sometimes. This is one of those times. There's no possible restitution large enough for the pain those children and their families have gone through trying to escape war and poverty of their home countries.

[Ally Campana 15,284]

The world truly makes me sick. These people in power and the higher up literally run child trafficking rings. May God end them. Disgusting.

[Borislshere 53,665]

This breaks my heart so much. These kids are being treated worse than zoo animals. Pulled apart from their loved ones and being abused. Jesus Christ it makes me sick just thinking about it. 

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20 minutes ago, Ally Campana said:

The world truly makes me sick. These people in power and the higher up literally run child trafficking rings. May God end them. Disgusting.

This. 

Some people think the government and other people in high up positions have people's best interests at heart but the truth is the world is run by psychopaths. 

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Heartbreaking.

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Not surprised, to think that Missing Children actually helps in child trafficking is disgusting.