Texas foster home linked to boy’s death had history of fight clubs and sexual misconduct, report says

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A Greenville foster care facility linked to the death of an 11-year-old last November had a history of sexual misconduct and physical abuse, including organizing fights between children and restraining one boy so severely he was hospitalized, according to a federal report filed Tuesday. Details about the problems at Thompson’s Residential Treatment Center, which opened in 2009, were made public in a report filed by court monitors in the ongoing 14-year-old federal lawsuit over how Texas cares for roughly 7,500 children placed in long-term foster care.