Morgan Young

1 week ago | wfaa.com | Morgan Young

GREENVILLE, Texas — The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is investigating the death of an 11-year-old boy in foster care who had been living at a state-licensed residential treatment center when he died last November. The child, who court records refer to as O.R., had been living at Thompson’s Residential Treatment Center in Greenville for two weeks when he died during a group outing to a movie theater the day before Thanksgiving.

3 weeks ago | wfaa.com | Morgan Young

DALLAS — Kelli Jones remembers the first time she saw her daughter in shackles. The then 14-year-old was recovering from a drug overdose in a North Texas children’s hospital after spending four days on a respirator. “They come and they shackle her up, and that’s when I lost it,” Jones said. “That was my first time losing it. They put her in shackles and took her to the juvenile detention center. It was a scene. I was hysterical. I was yelling at the probation officer.

4 weeks ago | myfoxzone.com | Morgan Young

DALLAS — Every moment that a child is missing is a moment they are in danger — that’s the message from experts and advocates sounding the alarm on a growing crisis in North Texas. “In this world we live in now, we cannot afford to assume anything’s okay when a kid is missing,” said Lindsey Speed, CEO and executive director of Addison-based Traffick911. “I don’t care where they go or how long they’ve been gone.

4 weeks ago | tspantx.com | Morgan Young

Data shows that when Black children go missing, they are disproportionately labeled “runaways,” putting them at high risk for being trafficked, advocates say. DALLAS — Every moment that a child is missing is a moment they are in danger — that’s the message from experts and advocates sounding the alarm on a growing crisis in North Texas.

4 weeks ago | wfaa.com | Morgan Young

DALLAS — Every moment that a child is missing is a moment they are in danger — that’s the message from experts and advocates sounding the alarm on a growing crisis in North Texas. “In this world we live in now, we cannot afford to assume anything’s okay when a kid is missing,” Lindsey Speed, CEO and executive director of Addison-based Traffick911, said. “I don’t care where they go or how long they’ve been gone.