Maite Amorebieta is a senior investigative producer with the NBC News Investigative Unit.
During her roughly four years in West Virginia’s foster care system, Nahomi Bennett says she bounced around among more than a dozen facilities — so many that she lost count. But there is one she can't forget: the group home where she was living when, she says, an older boy raped her at age 14. “I have dreams about it sometimes,” Bennett, now 20, said in an interview. “So I can’t really escape it in a way.
A Board of Child Care spokesman said he couldn't comment on individual cases and that the state is the legal custodian for children who are placed at residential providers. “We take the health and safety of the program participants entrusted to our care very seriously,” the spokesperson said. “Any allegations of misconduct by our employees are followed up on immediately.” West Virginia stopped sending foster children to the Board of Child Care in 2022 following a state investigation.
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