LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — The Children, Youth, and Families Department of New Mexico has been under heat for months. The New Mexico Department of Justice began an investigation into the agency after a 16-year-old foster child committed suicide while in its care.
On April 8, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez released a 214 page report from that investigation. It goes into detail on eight systemic failures that they found with the agency. The findings were pulled from over 20,000 documents as they interviewed people in the system. Multiple deaths of children in the agency’s care were discussed as well. The full report can be found here.
ABC-7 spoke with New Mexico State Senator Nicole Tobiassen. She said she was aware of the casework surrounding the report and was very glad to see the AG’s work on it…