zReportage.com Story of the Week #752: TUESDAY September 8, 2020: BROKEN HOME: Foster Kid Hell by ZUMA Press Newspaper Sacramento Bee Pulitzer prize winning photographer Renée C. Byer, who worked together with reporters Michael Finch II and Molly Sullivan on this special investigation which deals with: runaways, prostitution, a girl’s death, and how Sacramento’s largest group home failed its kids. In more ways than one, the Children’s Receiving Home of Sacramento has fallen down on the job of caring for the region’s most vulnerable young people. A recent investigation found numerous cases where the group home’s staff failed to adequately supervise children. Investigators have responded to at least 125 complaints and visited nearly 300 times since 2015, more than any other group home in the state. As a result of the near-constant reporting of AWOL residents, more children were listed missing in Sacramento County last year than any other place outside of Los Angeles. And strikingly, children housed at the Children’s Receiving Home have been recruited into sex trafficking, a problem that has festered for years, records show. The Children’s Receiving Home is one of Sacramento’s most important institutions. How the facility manages the children under its care reverberates throughout the community during their stay there, and well after they leave. Welcome to: BROKEN HOME: Foster Kid Hell
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