New York must not absolve these institutions of responsibility for actions alleged in Child Victims Act lawsuits.
To hear the private agencies that institutionalize foster children in New York tell it, the rampant abuses that went on in their facilities, abuses that have led to more than 800 lawsuits under the Child Victims Act, are “sins of the past,” so they shouldn’t have to pay for them. Instead, they argue, taxpayers should pay, in the form of a bailout of up to $200 million.
If they don’t, the institutions warn they may go broke and shut down — or at least take away children’s birthday parties.
None of it holds up to scrutiny.
Sins of the past?
Everyone from foster youth to a committee of the U.S. Senate begs to
differ. …
