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This story includes graphic details of alleged sexual violence against minors.
A youth care worker for Southwest Key has been charged with 11 sex offenses after authorities accused him of molesting at least eight unaccompanied immigrant boys over nearly a year at one of the companys shelters in Mesa, Arizona, federal court records show.
The allegations against Levian D. Pacheco, who is HIV-positive, include that he performed oral sex on two of the teenagers and tried to force one of them to penetrate him anally. The other six teens all between 15 and 17 said Pacheco had groped them through their clothing. All of the incidents are alleged to have taken place between August 2016 and July 2017, according to a court filing last week that laid out the governments case.
The case, initially investigated by local police, is now proceeding through U.S. District Court in Phoenix. Pacheco had worked at Southwest Keys Casa Kokopelli shelter, one of eight the company runs in Arizona, since May 2016.
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riversedge
(70,242 posts)such places???
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)... and removes them from the protection of their parents ... adult criminals tend to see these actions as carte blanche to take advantage of the situation, and look to have their way with these wayward, unprotected waifs?
Man ... it's REALLY hard to predict THAT ever happening.
I mean, this must be a f***ing historical FIRST.
No, really.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)Overseas for bad things for profits from them. These people are so corrupt they are capable of doing things like this against children. They have already shown they could care less about their welfare with what they're doing. Hopefully all will be exposed and those involved should be locked up for life.
beingliberal
(1 post)Here's the indictment. The worker, Levian Pacheco, is scheduled to go on trial Aug. 28 in federal court in Phoenix. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4631284-Show-Temp.html