Most foster children who went missing in four states were not screened after they were found to see whether they had been victims of sex trafficking, according to a federal audit.
There were 407,000 children in foster care as of 2020, according to the Congressional Research Service. Missing children are at great risk of sex trafficking, the inspector general said in his report. In 2020, a 16-year-old girl who had gone missing from foster carethat 60 percent of child sex-trafficking victims have been in foster care or another part of the child welfare system.
In 2014, Congress passed the Preventing Sex Trafficking Act, which required states to develop policies and procedures for “expeditiously locating any child missing from foster care” and “determining the child’s experiences while absent from care, including screening the child to determine if the child is a possible sex-trafficking victim.”
In 268 of the 413 cases the agency reviewed, or 65%, no evidence of screening for sex trafficking was found.“One screener asked a child if the child had ‘engaged in risky behaviors’ while missing from foster care, with no clarifications as to what risky behaviors may entail or any additional questions,” said the inspector general’s report, which was overseen by Abbi Warmker, a deputy regional inspector general for evaluation and inspections in the Kansas City, Missouri, regional office.
The questions states should be asking, the report said, include: “Did anyone ask you to do anything in exchange for money, food, a place to stay, or anything else?” or “Where did you stay?” or “How did you get food?” or “Did anyone make you or ask you to do anything that made you feel uncomfortable?” or “Did anyone ask you to take or send inappropriate photos?”When children go missing, “they don’t have shelter, they don’t have food, they don’t have water — what we find is that they are kind of...
Previous reports by the Health and Human Services inspector general have found problems in the foster care system.did not ensure that all foster care group homes complied with state licensing requirements related to the health and safety of children in those homes.that some states lack oversight systems to ensure that every child victim has a court representative, and it found that challenges impede some states’ ability to appoint a representative for every child victim.
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