Audio from migrant shelter reveals allegations of sex misconduct by staff with minors
"We have already caught staff with minors inappropriately," said a federal contractor on the audio of a May training session obtained by NBC News.
July 31, 2021, 6:34 AM EDT
By Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez
WASHINGTON — New audio from inside a U.S. government shelter for unaccompanied migrant children in Fort Bliss, Texas, reveals allegations of sexual misconduct by staff toward minors, acknowledgment the children were running low on clean clothes and shoes and a reluctance by officials to make public the scope of the facility's Covid outbreak.
"We have already caught staff with minors inappropriately. Is that OK with you guys?" says a federal contractor running a training session with staffers inside Fort Bliss in May.
The crowd shouts back, "No!"
"I hope not," she says.
"If you catch them, especially if it's a staff member, you separate that minor from that person immediately," the contractor says, making no mention of flagging supervisors to report the incident.
At its peak this spring, the temporary facility at Fort Bliss held nearly 5,000 migrant children, as the Department of Health and Human Services scrambled to take in children who were overcrowding Border Patrol stations. At the time of the training session, the facility held about 3,000 minors.
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