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The thing that truly astounds me is how agencies dealing with children handle the sexual deviants who gravitate to them:

As a young orphan during the early 70's the state had custody of me.  I didn't tell anyone about it, but a caseworker sexually molested me.  Soon I had another caseworker who commented that my former caseworker was asked to resign after the state "found out what he was into."

Years later I worked for a federal agency providing education/training to young people. It came to light that an employee had been sexually involved with a seventeen-year-old student.  He was "asked" to resign.

Why workers engaging in practices like these are asked to resign in lieu of being fired and prosecuted probably has something to do with liability issues.  The problem is they just go find another job in the profession they've chosen and become a permanent liability to the young people they're supposed to be serving

posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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