DOJ Sues U.S.’s Largest Contractor Housing Immigrant Children over Systemic Sexual Abuse

A Texas-based nonprofit that contracts with federal immigration authorities subjected unaccompanied migrant children to pervasive sexual abuse for nearly a decade. That’s according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department Wednesday detailing how workers at Southwest Key Programs repeatedly sexually assaulted children under the organization’s care between 2015 to 2023. Workers also forced migrant children to perform sexual acts and pose for nude photos while threatening the children so they would fear reporting any of the abuse. Southwest Key is the largest private provider of housing for unaccompanied...