Rucksacks of cash, ghost schools, jailed high schoolers. From neglect at a major for-profit foster care company to America’s broken guest worker system to a mobile home builder preying on minorities, the year that was in BuzzFeed News investigations.
Fostering Profits: Abuse And Neglect At America's Biggest For-Profit Foster Care Company — Aram Roston
Deaths. Abuse. Neglect. National Mentor Holdings, America’s largest for-profit foster care company, made a business of providing homes for children who are orphaned or removed from their parents. But the company’s widespread problems screening, training, and overseeing foster parents led to devastating consequences. Our stories led to a Senate investigation.
In An Unmarked Grave, A Baby’s Untold Story
A second story in the series spotlighted one harrowing example: a two-month-old girl who died of sudden infant death syndrome in a Mentor home whose caregivers hadn’t been taught basic safe sleeping practices for infants. For several years, the state of Massachusetts kept almost everything about the baby girl a secret, including her identity. We published her name and her story.
Kieran Kesner for BuzzFeed News
Debt and Jail in Texas — Kendall Taggart and Alex Campbell
Serena Vela skipped school and couldn’t pay the $2,700 she owed in fines. The 11th grader was sent to adult jail for nine days, and on the first school day after she got was set free, her high school kicked her out. Soon after this story came out, it was cited on the Texas senate floor as legislators changed the state’s law to put an end to the jailing of poor teens who skip school.
Dylan Hollingsworth for BuzzFeed News
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