A lawsuit claims that the Illinois child protection agency placed kids in juvenile detention who never committed crimes.
-- Children from abused and neglected households are taken in by the state's child welfare department with a promise of being kept safe. But a lawsuit filed Thursday challenges how safe theThe suit highlights the story of how the system left one girl locked up.
"When I was told ... 'I'm going to keep you safe,' I would expect you to keep me safe," Caine said,"and in that place, I didn't feel safe." She had done nothing wrong. The reason she was in the lockup was because DCFS was out of beds, the lawsuit claims."I don't know," Caine said."It's a lot of emotions and feelings that you feel - because nobody wants to be in a horrible place like that, where you're fighting girls."
This suit tells the story of Caine and eight other kids who spent anywhere from 45 days to six months wrongfully incarcerated. "If DCFS continues to have these policies that hurt children, then they will pay - and they will pay until they stop doing it and it never happens again to another child," said attorney Russell Ainsworth.
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