NY: Victims of abuse in foster care shouldn´t have to choose between compensation and justice (Opinion)

NCCPR Blog – June 09, 2024

Last month, I wrote a column for the New York Daily News about the attempt by New York’s private foster care, group home and residential treatment agencies to get a taxpayer bailout of up to $200 million. Why do they say they need it? To pay settlements in some of the hundreds of lawsuits filed by survivors of abuse in their foster homes, group homes and institutions, going back decades. Otherwise, the agencies say, the could go out of business. They say the going-out-of-business part as if it´s a bad thing. On the contrary. The group homes and institutions are harmful even when they´re not rife with physical and sexual abuse. The whole model is a proven failure and there are far better alternatives. But these giant, greedy, well-connected agencies are scarfing up all the money for such alternatives. (And when I say greedy: Have you seen Ron Richter´s salary for running one of them?)

https://www.nccprblog.org/2024/06/victims-of-abuse-in-foster-care.html