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   From: beanerocity@pelosiforcongress.org   
      
   PHOENIX –  Federal authorities allege that a former youth care   
   worker at a Phoenix-area facility for immigrant youths sexually   
   abused eight teenage boys, one of several cases brought to light   
   in recent weeks as thousands of immigrant children have been   
   detained around the country.   
      
   Court documents show Levian Pacheco faces several charges   
   stemming from incidents that allegedly took place between August   
   2016 and July 2017 at a Southwest Key facility in Mesa. The case   
   was first reported by ProPublica.   
      
   Authorities charge that Pacheco performed sex acts on two boys   
   and touched six others, all between ages 15 to 17 at the time.   
   Court documents also state that Pacheco is HIV-positive and that   
   some of the teens opted to be tested for the virus.   
      
   Pacheco has pleaded not guilty and denied the allegations. His   
   federal public defender has said in court documents that the   
   government's allegations of the crimes committed by Pacheco   
   include an "extraordinarily broad range of dates and lack of   
   specificity."   
      
   "We are looking forward to defending Mr. Pacheco in court,"   
   attorney Benjamin Good said in an email to The Associated Press.   
      
   The revelations Thursday came one day after police said another   
   worker at a different Southwest Key facility, Fernando Magaz   
   Negrete, is suspected of molesting a 14-year-old immigrant girl.   
      
   Authorities say Magaz Negrete kissed and fondled the girl in her   
   bedroom on June 27 in an encounter witnessed by the girl's 16-   
   year-old roommate. They said surveillance video shows Magaz   
   Negrete, 32, approaching the bedroom several times throughout   
   the night, though the bedroom itself was outside the camera's   
   view.   
      
   Southwest Key fired Magaz Negrete. It was not clear if he is   
   represented by an attorney.   
      
   The Texas-based nonprofit organization, the largest contracted   
   by the U.S. government to house immigrant children, has come   
   under scrutiny for its practices at its various shelters around   
   the Southwest. Many of the over 2,000 children who were   
   separated from their parents after crossing the border illegally   
   have been held at Southwest Key facilities.   
      
   The victims in the case against Pacheco were all unaccompanied   
   minors and it's not clear if they had been separated from their   
   parents or traveled to the U.S. alone, although the government   
   was not widely separating families at the time of the incidents.   
      
   Southwest Key spokesman Jeff Eller said in an email that Pacheco   
   was immediately suspended and police were called when   
   allegations surfaced.   
      
   He said Southwest Key and the Health and Human Services   
   department, which is in charge of caring for immigrant youths,   
   take every incident seriously "and there is a never ending   
   process to improve care and standards."   
      
   ProPublica published a report in July saying police responded to   
   at least 125 calls reporting sex offenses at shelters that   
   primarily serve immigrant children since 2014. The report   
   detailed a 2015 incident at a Tucson, Arizona, Southwest Key   
   facility in which authorities said an employee touched a 15-year-   
   old Honduran boy's penis from outside his clothing. The worker   
   was fired and later convicted of molestation.   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/02/documents-youth-care-worker-   
   sexually-abused-immigrant-boys.html   
      
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