Child Sexual Abuse in Group Homes and Day Care Centers

Dallas Attorney for Group Home and Day Care Sexual Abuse Victims

If your child has been abused in a group home or day care center, you have rights under both our criminal and civil law systems to address that abuse. While the criminal law system can put individual pedophiles away, it often does little to the organizations that failed to prevent the abuse from happening. By filing a civil lawsuit, you can hold the day care center or group home organization accountable for the harm that was done to your child.

Ms. Merritt represents children and their families in sexual assault cases against residential day care centers, group homes for at-risk children, large day care organizations, and small day care centers in private homes.

There are many ways day care centers and group homes can be responsible for failing to protect children from pedophiles:

• Through improper screening of employees, such as hiring sex offenders and people with criminal backgrounds
• By failing to supervise employees who have contact with children and failing to follow their own procedures to prevent abuse
• By failing to report incidents of sexual abuse to authorities as required under Texas law

Your first responsibility as a parent is to contact police. After the day care center or group home sexual assault has been reported to criminal authorities, you should contact a lawyer for information on your civil law options.

Free attorney consultation: Contact Dallas lawyer Tahira Khan Merritt today for a free consultation about your day care center or group home sexual abuse case.

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