{"id":1611286,"date":"2022-08-17T17:47:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611286"},"modified":"2022-08-17T17:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:47:35","slug":"be-a-real-ho-child-protective-services-employee-fired-after-telling-hungry-teenage-girl-to-prostitute-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/be-a-real-ho-child-protective-services-employee-fired-after-telling-hungry-teenage-girl-to-prostitute-herself\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Be A Real Ho\u2019: Child Protective Services Employee Fired After Telling Hungry Teenage Girl To Prostitute Herself"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbe-a-real-ho-child-protective-services-employee-fired-after-telling-hungry-teenage-girl-to-prostitute-herself%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1611286&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/child-protective-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Child Protective Services<\/a> (CPS) fired an employee last week after cell phone footage surfaced of the worker telling a hungry 14-year-old-girl in foster care to become a prostitute in order to feed herself.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cIf you gonna be a ho \u2014 be a real ho,\u201d the unidentified CPS employee said in the video recorded by the teenage girl.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Keisha Bazley, the teenager\u2019s mother, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/news\/cps-failed-to-alert-court-about-video-of-state-employee-telling-14-year-old-girl-to-become-a-prostitute\">Fox 26<\/a> that the CPS employee encouraged her daughter to prostitute herself to make money because she used to \u201cdo the same thing\u201d to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cWhen I saw the video with the lady,\u201d Bazley said. \u201cIt\u2019s like \u2014 like my soul left my body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Bazley, who has eight other children, said her daughter had displayed behavioral problems, prompting her to turn to Child Protective Services.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">However, after discovering how one of its employees advised her daughter, the family brought the case to a judge.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mike Schneider, the family\u2019s attorney, told Fox 26 that the CPS employee said the child, who lived in a hotel before moving into a foster home, could \u201cbasically\u201d make $1,500 a day if she sold her body for sex.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The family law attorney said that CPS had hoped to dismiss the case and get the teenager out of the state\u2019s care. Still, when speaking to the judge, the agency said nothing about the video\u2019s existence during a recent court hearing.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI think they\u2019re threatened by the fact that this video even exists,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cThey know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that they didn\u2019t think it was relevant that their own agency is trying to prostitute a child, that\u2019s incredibly disingenuous, to have a hearing and not bring that to the court\u2019s attention,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Officials from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) apologized to Bazley\u2019s family and issued a statement to Fox 26 regarding the employee and the video.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cDFPS is aware of the video and has taken action,\u201d Melissa Landford told Fox 26. \u201cThe person in the video \u2013 who was employed as CPS support staff \u2014 was dismissed from her position August 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe safety and appropriateness with which children in care must be treated is our paramount concern,\u201d she added. \u201cNothing less will be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Texas family\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/statutes.capitol.texas.gov\/Docs\/PE\/htm\/PE.43.htm#43.03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">law<\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> labels compelling or encouraging children to engage in sexual conduct through trafficking and prostitution as a felony in the third degree.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to the agency\u2019s website, DFPS employs more than 12,000 workers and trains more than 4,200 volunteers in 328 local offices in 11 regions and a state headquarters in Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child Protective Services (CPS) fired an employee last week after cell phone footage surfaced of the worker telling a hungry 14-year-old-girl in foster care to become a prostitute in order to feed herself. \u201cIf you gonna be a ho \u2014 be a real ho,\u201d the unidentified CPS employee said in the video recorded by the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1611338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1611338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}