CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SEX ABUSE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Department of Health and Human Services received more than 4,500 complaints of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors from 2014-2018, according to internal agency documents released Tuesday [2-26-19] by Florida Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch. In addition,1,303 complaints were reported to the Justice Department during that same time frame, according to the documents. Deutch addressed the documents during a high-profile House hearing Tuesday on the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy that resulted in thousands of immigrant children being separated from their parents. He said that the documents ‘demonstrate over the past three years, there have been 154 staff on unaccompanied minor, let me repeat that, staff on unaccompanied minor allegations of sexual assault’…Hayes said the vast majority of the incidents were between unaccompanied minors. He said there were 178 incidents of alleged sexual abuse involving facility-staff-on-minor misconduct in the last four years, but those staffers were not federal employees.”
–Sophie Tatum, “HHS docs show thousands of alleged incidents of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors in custody,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, February 26, 2019 2:52 pm