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The contact with CPS began when Keisha Basley, a Texas mother of nine, asked the agency for help with her teenage daughter as she had been running away and also causing problems at school.
"My daughter told me that the worker had been telling her she should do these things, so she said she decided to video her," Bazley said.
CPS is housing the girl at a hotel, like they do with dozens of other foster kids in Harris County.
The video allegedly shows an exchange between the 14-year-old and a CPS worker who reportedly told the child to become a prostitute.
"And giving her an incentive to do so, and almost a threat of not having her needs being met, if she didn't do what this woman very explicitly told her to do," family law attorney Mike Schneider told FOX 26 after watching the video.
"If me, the parent, was to do something like this to my child, I would be bashed," Ms. Bazley said. "I would be called a horrible parent. I would lose my kids."
"If me, the parent, was to do something like this to my child, I would be bashed," Ms. Bazley said. "I would be called a horrible parent. I would lose my kids."
Bazley filed an official complaint with CPS to which Jamie Masters, the CPS commissioner, traveled from Austin to Houston to apologize to Ms. Bazley and her daughter.
"This should not happen to girls in their care," she said. "It should not happen. It's unacceptable."
It's also rather disgusting to think that an agency specifically designed to protect children [read their name] would suggest something so horrific and dangerous to a young teen.
"I've never seen that happen before where the commissioner of CPS comes in from Austin, just to apologize about something horrible that's been done to a child involved with CPS," Schneider said. "It's bad enough if it's just one bad rogue worker. It concerns me that it may be bigger than that, and they need to make sure it's not just one person, and they've got to find a way to protect these kids."
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services spokeswoman Melissa Lanford, told FOX 26, "DFPS is aware of the video and has taken action. The person in the video – who was employed as CPS support staff - was dismissed from her position August 10. The safety and appropriateness with which children in care must be treated is our paramount concern. Nothing less will be tolerated."
"I've never seen that happen before where the commissioner of CPS comes in from Austin, just to apologize about something horrible that's been done to a child involved with CPS," Schneider said. "It's bad enough if it's just one bad rogue worker. It concerns me that it may be bigger than that, and they need to make sure it's not just one person, and they've got to find a way to protect these kids."
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services spokeswoman Melissa Lanford, told FOX 26, "DFPS is aware of the video and has taken action. The person in the video – who was employed as CPS support staff - was dismissed from her position August 10. The safety and appropriateness with which children in care must be treated is our paramount concern. Nothing less will be tolerated."
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What is the person's name who made the suggestion to the child? The public should have the right to know this so that this woman is never hired in any position involving children or counseling.
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