US SENATE PROBING PRIVATE FOSTER CARE AGENCIES

US SENATE PROBING PRIVATE FOSTER CARE AGENCIES

The US senate has recently launched an investigation into private foster care agencies. This investigation is long overdue and follows recent media attention into violent deaths and child sex abuse in foster homes approved and supervised by National Mentor Holdings, a for-profit foster care agency.  The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange and is paid millions of dollars by state and local governments.  Reports uncovered that a National Mentor foster father molested his foster sons for 10 decades while the agency was responsible for monitoring the home.  In another tragic case, a National Mentor foster mother murdered her two year-old foster daughter.