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Alabama State Trooper Arrested for Child Rape

Robert and Kathleen Raskin are staunch advocates of fairness and justice for child foster care. They tirelessly point out ongoing breaches of justice by the family courts and most notably by the Department of Human Resources, the state body that oversees child protective services. Alabama alone has so many lawsuits directly implicating members of the DHR that there’s a class action suit naming specific individuals. After deeper research into this matter, it seems that the problem doesn’t stop with them.

In May of 2021, Christopher Bauer, an Alabama State Trooper, was arrested in Montgomery for the rape and sodomy of an 11-year-old-girl. If this isn’t bad enough, Bauer has previously been kicked out of the FBI for the rape of a coworker. However, a string of sexual assault cases didn’t stop him from getting accepted by the Alabama State Troopers because he used a forged document on FBI letterhead to give himself a clean record and assure he was eligible for rehire. What’s worse, Bauer was an Alabama police officer before joining the FBI. He was Air Force before that. Sensing a pattern here?

Let’s be clear: not only did all of these agencies get duped by the same guy, but all of them also checked in with each other and failed to detect a problem. The best detectives in the state didn’t detect a problem. If children in Alabama, foster or otherwise, are supposed to be protected by the DHR and the state police, it’s the FBI’s job to ensure that patterns of injustice are investigated for sex trafficking across state lines. Yet it seems none of these agencies are equipped to stop the perpetrators from joining their forces. It’s a classic case of hiring a fox to guard the henhouse, but of epic proportions.

While the Raskins are staunch advocates of state’s rights, they’re bigger advocates of the safety of children. This is why they wholeheartedly support the creation of a federal agency charged with overseeing the DHR to ensure they’re doing their jobs and protecting the children.

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For more information about the state trooper investigation, click here: https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-montgomery-new-orleans-alabama-police-8bd9d4cbe11cac4630e7057019d139a4

New Lawsuit Against Alabama’s DHR by Local Advocacy Group

According to a lawsuit filed back in May of 2021, a loophole in DHR’s foster care system has a record of allowing a disproportionate number of foster children with mental disabilities to remain in psychiatric treatment facilities so long, they often “age out of the system.” This means mentally unstable kids as young as 19 suffer higher instances of homelessness, incarceration, and/or admittance to adult psychiatric facilities. In addition, according to statistics on the mental and behavioral effects of growing up without a permanent home and family, foster children are more likely to exhibit mental and behavioral instability resembling that of PTSD and stress-induced schizophrenia in the first place. For this reason, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program and the Southern Poverty Law Center have filed this suit against the DHR because this is a violation of Federal Law.

They’re represented by none other than Attorney Tommy James, famous for his representation of multiple open cases of child abuse victims in Alabama, who says these draconian practices are well-known to local and state government authorities who should have made this a priority, rather than waiting for a lawsuit to force their hand. But, unfortunately, such is the case in this current lawsuit, whereby these children with mental and behavioral problems have been neglected, beaten, and forced to live in the squalor conditions of these facilities to get the $315 per child offered by the state in exchange for their “care.”

This is a perfect example of why Robert and Kathleen Raskin continue to follow such cases, which are systemic and ongoing, and often unreported on national news. Follow us for more insights into this ongoing problem and learn what you can do to fight this corruption where you live.