Abandoned, assaulted and molested. 500,000 kids suffer these crimes every year. And when they do, they are placed in foster care, which is supposed to be safe and temporary. Too often, it is neither. Gen Justice is fighting to mend the child protection system and bring a permanent end to innocent children enduring violence.
It's time to fix this.
The statistics are alarming.
Children in foster care are the #1 target for sex traffickers
Every year 18,000 children go missing from foster care
Each year Thousands of kids are abandoned
"How can social services lose 18,000 children and not look for them? The FBI reports that more than half of trafficked children in America were in the care of social services when they disappeared. That is a damning statistic for a system whose sole purpose is to keep children safe."
Darcy Olsen, The Arizona Republic
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