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| In Michigan the rate is $21.27 a day |
Yes, that is correct. Child welfare in Michigan is so bad that youth will seek out arrangements of sexual servitude for the purposes of food and shelter.
Yes, that is correct. Michigan, continuing its failed socioeconomic policy experiment has shifted TANF funds to private universities, furthering a situation where a child has no other option to survive but to resort to a life on the streets.
Yes, that is correct. Child Protective Services has continuously failed to protect children who are under the care of the state.
Typically, these girls, and boys, come from the foster care system or juvenile justice.
Foster care in Michigan is so bad, this age range is when girls, including boys, will learn that their only option for survival upon aging out of foster care is a life on the streets.
Mental health, including resources, for foster youth and youth in transition is so poor in the state, that this population can only survive by selling their bodies, and they start young, because they know they will never be adopted.
Then there are the sordid stories of families adopting these youth strictly for the adoption subsidies, forcing them to run away to a life on the streets, while the adoption subsidy checks continue to be cashed.
Yes, that is correct, if an adopted child runs away, or moves away into an independent living arrangement, the adoptive families are not obligated to hand over one penny to help.
If this population can successfully apply for SSI, $733 a month, they may be able to secure a boarding room, but then there is the issue of food as Michigan has, once again, cut SNAP benefits to $16 a month, leaving an individual with mental health issues to fend for themselves, a task far too difficult for many.
Poverty forced these girls, and boys, into this dark world of survival.
And yes, that is correct. Michigan has created this population and has even acknowledged that the state is #1 in human trafficking and that these victims hail from foster care.
This is why there are looming discussions to reinstate parental rights, as many of these youth are fleeing the horrors of foster care.
And yes, that is correct. These youth are running away from foster care because they can not go back home for fear of being recaptured and punished by the courts, subject to incarceration for being too poor to pay the court costs and fines.
And yes, that is correct, via the child welfare system of Michigan, these youth learn that selling chattel if the oldest form of survival.
Rescued girls in human trafficking bust were 12-17 years old
Nineteen children were rescued from a human trafficking ring selling local kids as sex slaves all over the country.
Twelve suspected pimps were arrested in the undercover sting. Cities the children were included Detroit, Madison Heights, Ferndale, Kalamazoo, Redford Township, Warren, Dearborn and Clinton Township.
Guns, teens clothing and condoms were found across metro Detroit as the FBI, state and local police were involved in the operation, announced on Tuesday.
"They were being assaulted either sexually, physically," said Sgt. Edward Price of Michigan State Police. "A lot of times they deal with mental abuse."
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