Texas is sued over foster care system

A New York advocacy group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday claiming that children in the Texas foster care system are forced to spend years in abusive, poorly supervised facilities and homes hundreds of miles from family and friends.

The group, Children's Rights, filed the suit in Corpus Christi on behalf of 12,000 children housed in long-term foster homes, group homes and residential treatment centers across the state. It names Gov. Rick Perry, Texas Health and Human Services Commissioner Thomas Suehs and Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Commissioner Anne Heiligenstein as defendants.

The suit, which identified nine children by their initials as named plaintiffs, calls on the state to revamp a system that the group says fails foster children.

Since Texas republicans don't care about children after they're born, hate government employees, and love giving taxpayer dollars to cronies for delivering sh*t, I can see where a problem might occur.