{"id":20862,"date":"2023-11-06T12:54:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=20862"},"modified":"2023-11-06T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:54:50","slug":"foster-care-investigation-former-foster-child-in-georgia-i-experienced-abuse-medical-neglect-educational-neglect-and-was-even-sexually-assaulted-trafficked","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/foster-care-investigation-former-foster-child-in-georgia-i-experienced-abuse-medical-neglect-educational-neglect-and-was-even-sexually-assaulted-trafficked\/","title":{"rendered":"FOSTER CARE INVESTIGATION: Former Foster Child in Georgia: \u201cI Experienced Abuse, Medical Neglect, Educational Neglect, and Was Even Sexually Assaulted &amp; Trafficked\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_nJqXIWj84\"><strong><em>WATCH: Video &amp; audio of Tiffani McLean-Camp&#8217;s opening statement<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Atlanta, Ga. \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>Today at a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/committee-activity\/hearings\/abuse-in-foster-care-a-deeper-look\">U.S. Senate Human Rights Subcommittee hearing in Atlanta<\/a>, Tiffani McLean-Camp, who was a child in DFCS\u2019 care and remains in extended care, testified about abuse, medical neglect, and sexual assault &amp; trafficking she experienced while in DFCS\u2019 care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I was put in foster care DFCS didn\u2019t believe that I had been abused or neglected, even after I told them. To them I was unruly, a runaway, and a behavior problem,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>McLean-Camp testified<\/strong>.&nbsp;\u201c<strong>While in DFCS\u2019 custody, I experienced abuse, medical neglect, educational neglect, and was even sexually assaulted and trafficked.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI moved placements more than 20 times. I was put in group homes, detention centers, and foster homes,\u201d McLean-Camp testified. \u201c<strong>I remember the barbed wire fence, being overmedicated, but put in isolation.<\/strong>&nbsp;I remember staff forcing my pants down and forcing me to get a shot on my bottom and then feeling drowsy.&nbsp;<strong>They treated me like I wasn\u2019t human.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was placed in a few different group homes that were supposed to be safe houses for girls who were trafficked,\u201d she said. \u201cAt one of these placements, I witnessed the staff fighting with the other girls in the home, staff smoking marijuana, and not being allowed to go to school in person \u2013 not for my protection, but to protect group homes and staff other children. The staff would call me and the other girls the B word. One time, I even heard the staff call other girls in the home a slut.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH: Video &amp; audio of Tiffani McLean-Camp&#8217;s opening statement Atlanta, Ga. \u2014&nbsp;Today at a&nbsp;U.S. Senate Human Rights Subcommittee hearing in Atlanta, Tiffani McLean-Camp, who was a child in DFCS\u2019 care and remains in extended care, testified about abuse, medical neglect, and sexual assault &amp; trafficking she experienced while in DFCS\u2019 care. \u201cWhen I was put [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20862","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/20862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/20862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20864,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/20862\/revisions\/20864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}