Girls’ Foster Parents Not Impressed With Kid-Dumping AR Rep Justin Harris’s Sob Story
(I was waiting for this. NOW that scumbag harris is saying he is being persecuted because of his religious beliefs. anybody have a barf bag handy?)
Arkansas Unraveler
Girls’ Foster Parents Not Impressed With Kid-Dumping AR Rep Justin Harris’s Sob Story
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The bizarre story of Arkansas state Rep. Justin Harris and his decision to “rehome” his two adopted daughters with a family friend and employee, Eric Francis, who later raped one of the girls, continued to unfold in High Weird Mode over the weekend. Following his press conference Friday, Harris gave a 35-minute interview to Drew Petrimoulx of TV station KARK in which he continued to place most of the blame for the troubled adoption on the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) and, continued to insist that the children were so seriously emotionally disturbed that they put his entire family in danger.
In the interview, Harris repeated his claim that he was threatened by the DHS that if he tried to dissolve the adoption, he would be charged with child abandonment; he says that Cecile Blucker, the head of DHS’s Division of Children and Family Services, told him this and that another source inside DHS (who he again declined to identify) told his wife, Marsha, “this is what they plan for you… because of your husband’s belief system, they will charge you with abandonment. This is what they have planned for you.” He clarified that he meant that he was singled out “for my political beliefs,” apparently because he is that extremely rare thing, a rightwing fundamentalist Christian, which we suppose must be a persecuted minority in Arkansas. He added that he believed DHS threatened him because, as a state legislator, he had held the agency accountable for its poor performance in constituents’ adoptions.
Harris also told Petrimoulx that his family was approached by the girls’ mother after they had told friends at their church that they were looking to adopt:
“Out of the blue, a mother that heard that we were wanting to adopt, literally through a friend heard about us … and so she called us out of the blue…and said ‘will you take my three girls, ’cause I’m about ready to lose them to DHS,’ and we said we’ll think about it, and she didn’t call us back for about six months after that, and then she did and we said, yes, we’ll take your three girls.'”
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Just in terms of the timeline, this seems to contradict the account given by Craig and Cheryl Hart to Benjamin Hardy of the Arkansas Times on Saturday. For about a year and a half before the girls were placed with the Harrises, the two younger girls had already been removed from their birth home and had been in foster care with the Harts, while the oldest of the three sisters was “fostered at a different household that provided specialized therapeutic care for troubled children.” A former DHS employee confirmed to the Times that the Harts had cared for the two younger girls from March 2011 to September 2012, when they went to the Harrises. In his interview with Petrimoulx, Harris doesn’t mention the girls being in foster care prior to coming to his home, but that may have covered the time when he was wrangling with DHS over whether the adoption would be private or through DHS.
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