PORTLAND — Oregon child welfare officials ignored years of warnings when they moved a 13-year-old boy with a history of abusing younger children into the same foster home as two young girls, according to a lawsuit against the Department of Human Services.
New court documents say case workers labeled the boy a “risk” and wrote that they planned to move the girls, then 5 and 7, out as soon as possible, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported .
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