Former Victorian premier Joan Kirner once joked that the difference between a pitbull and “child protective services” is that eventually the pitbull will let go of your children. As it turns out, the pitbull is also infinitely less likely to be a groomer.
A Texas child protective services worker was fired this month after she was caught on video telling a 14-year-old girl she should consider sex work, state officials said Sunday.
The unidentified Texas Department of Family and Protective Services employee was dismissed after her conversation with the girl, who recorded the discussion while she was in foster care.
The video was first aired by KRIV-TV of Houston. The girl was being housed in a hotel before a foster family could be found. The video shows the girl asking the employee for food, then being encouraged by the employee to become a prostitute.
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As it happens, this is far from the only instance of child protective services worker behaving badly.
A former Pennsylvania child services worker faces human trafficking charges for allegedly pressuring a mother whose children were in foster care into prostitution, authorities said.
In fact, she was little more than a government-sponsored pimp.
Candace Talley, 27, of Sicklerville, New Jersey, who was arrested Thursday, is also accused of recruiting other women to participate in an extensive prostitution ring, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said in a statement.
Talley was working in 2017 for the Division of Children and Youth Services in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, when she coerced a woman whose children were in foster care and whose case she was managing into prostitution in exchange for a favorable custody recommendation, Stollsteimer said […]
Talley would also allegedly drive other women to and from prostitution jobs and take more than 25 per cent of the money they made.
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Cast your mind to when James O’Keefe and Project Veritas first made a splash with their trademark hidden camera exposes. In 2009, O’Keefe and and Hannah Giles recorded a series of videos in the offices of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the now-defunct radical activist organisation most notably associated with former president Obama. O’Keefe and Giles posed as a pimp and a prostitute, seeking advice on how to traffic underage girls from Central America and run a prostitution ring in the States.
According to former California Governor and Attorney General Gerry Brown, who wrote an official report into the affair, based on O’Keefe’s unedited video:
The recordings establish ACORN employees across the country were willing to discuss with O’Keefe and Giles their plan to conduct a prostitution business, and a few even made suggestions for disguising profits and avoiding detection by law enforcement agencies. The most offensive conversations occurred outside California […]
Employees outside California made suggestions for disguising profits from the illegal enterprise and for avoiding detection by law enforcement authorities. Clearly, the worst behavior was exhibited by the Baltimore employees who advised on how to falsely report the profits of their sex business and report underage prostitutes as “dependants”. To a somewhat lesser degree the Washington, DC employees provided inappropriate advice, as did the employees in the Brooklyn office.
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Of course the Establishment swung into action. O’Keefe was arrested by the FBI and charged with entering a federal building with the intent to commit a felony. Some of the videoed employees claimed they were “only joking”, while another sued O’Keefe over the hidden recording.
O’Keefe settled the suit, but now says that was a mistake.
After three years of fighting this suit, we settled for $100,000. It would have cost us five times as much to continue to fight California’s dubiously constitutional Invasion of Privacy Act. This law seems designed to protect the powerful from video exposure.
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All of that, though, gave the legacy media all the wriggle room they needed to dismiss O’Keefe’s damning investigation (much as they did with the Planned Parenthood “baby parts” scandal later initiated by O’Keefe).
Now it looks like it’s time to start dropping a few more pennies into the James O’Keefe Was Right tip jar.