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TexasTowelie

(120,827 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 01:57 AM Mar 2015

Lawmaker And Christian School Owner 'Rehomes' Adopted 6 Year Old To Man Who Then Rapes Her

A Republican lawmaker who owns a religious pre-school adopted a little girl with his wife. He apparently later "re-homed," or unofficially but permanently gave over the 6-year old to a man he would end up hiring as a pre-school teacher. That man later raped her.

Justin Harris is a conservative Arkansas State Representative who serves as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Children and Youth. A Tea Party Republican, Harris has voted to allow the Christian bible to be taught in public schools, and has co-sponsored anti-abortion bills. A Pentecostal Christian, he and his family belong to the Assemblies of God fellowship. Harris also owns a religious, Christian pre-school, named Growing God’s Kingdom.

In 2011, Americans United, an organization that advocates for separation of church and state, revealed that Harris' Growing God’s Kingdom Preschool had "received over $1 million in state funds since 2005," despite separation of church and state.

That revelation did nothing to discourage Rep. Harris, just two years later, from co-sponsoring a bill that would, as NCRM reported, "force the state to pay for 'faith-based' or religious daycare and pre-school, as long as the parent and not the state requests it."

Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/arkansas_lawmaker_and_school_owner_gives_adopted_6_year_old_to_employee_who_then_rapes_her

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Lawmaker And Christian School Owner 'Rehomes' Adopted 6 Year Old To Man Who Then Rapes Her (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2015 OP
Wow! Is this real? nt longship Mar 2015 #1
It's why I have some cynical feelings about the whole adoption process. TexasTowelie Mar 2015 #2
Yes it is real. Justin and family live in West Fork, AR, about 15 miles from sinkingfeeling Mar 2015 #4
Some lawyer should sue his sorry ass on behalf of the girl. Hoppy Mar 2015 #3

TexasTowelie

(120,827 posts)
2. It's why I have some cynical feelings about the whole adoption process.
Thu Mar 5, 2015, 04:58 AM
Mar 2015

While I know that there are many great parents that get matched up with children who truly are desperate and need loving families, I also have seen young children treated as commodities. It's sad that this young girl who was sexually abused by her biological family was placed into a home and then given away as unwanted and sexually violated again. The girl will need loads of therapy and probably never get to lead a normal life.

The fact that her adoptive parents, particularly the adoptive father whom the people elected into a position of trust, has broken the trust of a young child.

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