Judge: Texas doesn’t shield foster kids from sexual abuse, overuses mental health drugs

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Judge: Texas doesn’t shield foster kids from sexual abuse, overuses mental health drugs
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Texas is backsliding on protecting foster kids from sexual abuse and keeping emotionally disturbed children from being overprescribed psychotropic drugs, a...

On Wednesday, she seemed to hedge on whether she’d impose financial sanctions at a June 27 hearing. She said she instructed her monitors to first build a more airtight case that misuse of psychotropic drugs is endangering the children.

Jack, 76, a former nurse who as a Corpus Christi family lawyer caught her first glimpse of Texas child welfare, is an appointee of former President Bill Clinton. She no longer handles a full docket – and now spends much of her time in Dallas, near grandchildren. When the judge gave them a chance, lawyers for Paxton who represent the Department of Family and Protective Services and Gov. Greg Abbott, the other defendants in the 12-year-old, class-action suit, offered no response to Yetter.

Fowler and Ryan found that 47% of the children at the 14 facilities whose records they examined were prescribed at least four psychotropic drugs.

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