An employee of Child Protective Services in Texas was recently fired after a video clip surfaced of her advising a 14-year-old girl to try her hand at prostitution. The CPS worker reportedly advised the teenager to do so numerous times before the young girl decided to record her transgressions in order to share the information with her mother, Keisha Bazley.
“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. “If me, the parent, was to do something like this to my child, I would be bashed. I would be called a horrible parent. I would lose my kids.”
According to the family's attorney, Mike Schneider, "advice" from the former CPS worker was given to the 14-year-old girl in a threatening manner, suggesting that there could be consequences if her needs weren't satisfied.
“And giving her an incentive to do so, and almost a threat of not having her needs being met,” Schneider said. “If she didn’t do what this woman very explicitly told her to do..."
In the wake of the incident, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) relieved the CPS worker of her duties, and the commissioner of CPS traveled to the Bazley's place of residence just to apologize for the debacle personally.
“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.”
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