Jefferson County man accused of statutory sodomy
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said a man sexually abused a girl multiple times over the span of seven years, and police believe there are more victims.
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The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said a man sexually abused a girl multiple times over the span of seven years, and police believe there are more victims.
The report last year on five states (Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Texas) found no evidence of a screening in 65 percent of the 413 case files of returned children.
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Foster care children are especially vulnerable to sex trafficking, and a 2014 federal law requires state authorities to screen missing children when they are found to determine whether they were sexually exploited.
An audit from earlier this year found that, across 46 states, state agencies failed to report an estimated 34,000 cases of missing foster kids, including children who ran away multiple times.