Senate-Funded Child Abuse
Riss Flex reports on the Senate Finance Committee’s two-year investigation exposing systemic taxpayer-funded child abuse and neglect in youth residential treatment facilities across the country. Flex says the investigation suggests that the facilities may not have been protecting troubled youths at all, but rendering them vulnerable to more abuse.
Speaking of tax-funded child abuse, former lawmaker Sen. Ray Holmberg, one of the more powerful members of the North Dakota Legislature, pleaded guilty to traveling to pay for sex with a minor. “He was head of finances and was approving his own travel budget,” Flex says. She digs into the details, plus more.
