A CPS employee in Texas was caught on camera instructing a 14-year-old girl that she should become a prostitute in order to pay for food.
The video, filmed in Harris County, Texas, by the 14-year-old daughter of Keisha Bazley, shows the CPS worker tell Bazley’s daughter that if she needed money for food, she should become a prostitute. “If you’re gonna be a hoe, be a real hoe,” the worker can be heard on camera.
Bazley’s daughter was housed in a hotel in the Texas county, one of “dozens” of young children who have been placed in similar accommodation in the area. She told Fox 26 that her daughter had become concerned at the CPS worker constantly recommending that she become a prostitute, and decided to catch her on video.
The daughter, who has 8 siblings, was placed within the CPS system by her mother after allegedly running away and “causing trouble” at school. She told by her case worker in the secret recording that she could make up to $1500 by selling herself for sex.
Family law attorney Mike Schneider, who reviewed the video, told Fox that the CPS worker was 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.”
“If me, the parent, was to do something like this to my child, I would be bashed,” Bazley said. “I would be called a horrible parent. I would lose my kids. This should not happen to girls in their care. It should not happen. it’s unacceptable.”
CPS Commissioner Jamie Masters traveled to Houston to personally apologize to Bazley and her daughter, which Bazley said she didn’t feel was “genuine.” Schneider added that he had never heard of the commissioner coming from Austin to make an in-person apology like that before.
In the video, the girl tells the CPS employee she wants food. The CPS worker tells her to be a prostitute. https://t.co/XKeP6FZ5n0
— FOX 32 News (@fox32news) August 15, 2022
“It’s bad enough if it’s just one bad rogue case worker,” Schneider said. “It concerns me that it may be bigger than that, and they need to investigate this and make sure it’s not just one person, and they’ve got to figure out a way to protect these kids.”
In a statement to Fox 26, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services said that they had taken action and fired the person in the video, “who was employed as CPS support staff,” on August 10.
“The safety and appropriateness with which children in care must be treated is our paramount concern,” Texas DFPS spokeswoman Melissa Lanford said. “Nothing less will be tolerated.”
JOHN MAYOR
August 16, 2022 at 1:39 pm
Jail time!… and CPS should be investigated!… thoroughly! And merely firing this character is shameful!
GRIZZ MANN
August 16, 2022 at 3:05 pm
C’mon man! Democrats know how to make money.
JOHN MAYOR
August 16, 2022 at 11:36 pm
What’s that supposed to mean?