Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions and images of physical abuse and injuries to minors. Just before lunchtime on Oct. 24 of this year, an employee of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department heard what sounded like an argument between two teenage boys coming from inside a room in the agency’s Albuquerque office building, where the boys had been living. As the argument appeared to escalate into a fight, the employee called for a private security guard to intervene.