The following article titled “Arizona CPS Worker Defies Gag Order, Exposes Violent Child Sex Ring in State Foster Care System” was written by Matt Agorist and published for DC Dirty Laundry on September 16th, 2019. Its length and content have been edited to share on Saving Grace Advocates‘ blog.
Sierra Vista, AZ — While many think that the state taking children from parents is a noble gesture to protect the child, all too often, the state removes kids from a bad situation and throws them into a situation akin to a horror film. Many times the children are taken from caring parents, who happened to hit a rough patch in their lives. Frequently, those children find themselves in torturous and outright sadistic situations. As a result, some end up raped, tortured, and even murdered.
Former Arizona DCS Employee Beth Breen
Beth Breen, a former employee of Arizona DCS recently broke her gagging order and went on Northwest Liberty News. There, she detailed the horrifying treatment suffered by a young child at the hands of the state foster system. According to Breen, she is not supposed to speak about the case because of the gag order but is anyway because the information is vital and the order unconstitutional.
Breene explained that she was a driver for a 5-year-old girl whose stay in foster care ended with her being permanently disfigured and fighting for her life in ICU because of her bureaucratic ‘protection’ within the system. Devani, who is referred to as Jane Doe in a lawsuit, was taken from her parents because they had substance abuse issues.
Because her mother struggled with addiction, the state took Devani. As mentioned before, they took her from a bad situation and threw her into a nightmare – a child sex ring. As a result, she was repeatedly raped and tortured.
The Child Sex Ring Nightmare
Breene’s job involved driving Devani from her foster home 90 miles away for a 2-hour supervised visit with her parents each week. Because the round trip was four hours, Breene spent more time with Devani than her parents.
During the interview, Breene states that there were 36 police reports made to the foster home in which Devani lived, but that they were never investigated. The foster parent, David Frodsham — the deputy commander of the Fort Huachuca Army base, a position he held after being kicked out of Afghanistan for deviant sexual behavior — would only be arrested after he became overtly careless. This occurred when he went to the foster office drunk to collect his check for fostering children.
Breene said she was perplexed at the fact that only three people were arrested in connection with the child sex ring Frodsham ran out of his DCS-approved foster home. Instead of opening a statewide investigation after Frodsham and another sex trafficker were arrested, the state went after those who tried to expose it.
Impossible Standards & Dire Consequences
In 2017, TFTP reported on Devani’s case and a subsequent lawsuit which is nothing short of something out of a horror film. After having her child taken, Michelle Tremor-Calderon, the girl’s biological mother, began to improve her condition. With a clearer head, Tremor noticed that her daughter seemed to be deteriorating in the care of her state-appointed foster parent. “I did everything DCS wanted me to, and received certificates of completion, and was in full compliance when my rights were severed,” Tremor said.
After only a few weeks in the care of the Frodsham, multiple signs of abuse and neglect began to arise. However, nobody took action.
More Signs of Child Abuse
Tremor had pointed out, on multiple occasions, that her daughter had continued urinary-tract infections, which can sometimes indicate signs of repeated sexual abuse in children. Her concerns, however, fell on deaf bureaucratic ears. “I told my CPS/DCS caseworker on several occasions due to my concerns, and they were all ignored,” Tremor said.
“Instead of investigating the mother’s concerns of abuse, [DCS] and the defendant caseworkers accused her of making false and exaggerated reports to DCS,” the lawsuit states. Despite jumping through all their hoops, the state refused to give back Tremor her daughter. The longer she stayed away from her mom, the worst things got for little Devani.
Frodsham had been in the state’s foster program from 2002 until 2015 when he was removed after being caught DUI with children in his car — one of whom was Devani. As the complaint notes, despite her mother’s repeated complaints, the state did not act on behalf of Devani until “David Frodsham, driving drunk, left 3-year-old Jane and another child in his parked car while he was collecting his foster parent check in a state office, while “visibly drunk and acting belligerent.”
Still No Action Taken to End Abuse
Even after they found abused children in his car while drunk at the state office, the DCS did not conduct a review of his home. It took him getting arrested again — this time with another child rapist.
David Frodsham, the state’s choice for a better environment than her own mother, was arrested along with an active-duty soldier for allegations of transferring child porn over the internet.
According to the lawsuit, “David Frodsham was arrested and accused of sexual misconduct with a minor, procuring minors for sex, and possessing and/or manufacturing child pornography. Law enforcement’s investigation revealed a video made by David Frodsham of a young girl penetrated by an adult male and screaming for her mommy. David Frodsham pled guilty rather than face a trial. He received 17 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections. David Frodsham was part of a pornography ring involving numerous children in his pornography and the procurement of sex for the ring.”
The State Allows Further Child Abuse
Naturally, one would think, that once Tremor’s daughter was found to have been placed in a home and sexually abused because of the negligence of the state, they would give Devani back to her mom who had done everything they asked to improve her situation. However, one would be wrong.
Instead of reuniting this poor abused girl with her biological mother, she was placed into another horrifying nightmare. Devani’s new state-appointed abuser was Samantha Osteraas. After staying with Osteraas for a few months, this little girl would be nearly killed.
According to the complaint, “Defendant Samantha Osteraas submerged and held her down in a bath of scalding hot water. Jane Doe suffered severe burns over 80 percent of her body. When police arrived, there was blood on the floor and pieces of her skin were falling off her body. There were bruises to her neck and arms along with other signs of trauma.”
Devani was put into a medically induced coma, suffering from organ failure. She lost her toes to amputation “and will undergo lifelong operations to replace 80 percent of the skin on her body and will need incredible amounts of care for the duration of her life as a result of the abuse she suffered in the Osteraases’ home.”
Nobody Held Accountable for Abuse of This Child
No one within the agencies involved in placing this little girl in the ‘care’ of sick child abusers has been held accountable. The only means of accountability will come from this lawsuit which seeks punitive damages for negligence, respondeat superior, breach of duty, intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault and battery, and constitutional violations.
Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, many in the mainstream media and the government refuse to see this very real epidemic of child sex ring trafficking exploitation in the United States. What’s more, according to the government’s own data, the vast majority of a portion of these trafficked kids are coming from the government system that promises to keep them safe—a horrifying irony indeed. However, that’s the way the system works.
This system is set up to pull children from their families for ridiculous reasons. Then, they turn them over to for-profit systems. One funded by your tax dollars. And worst of all, they use these children as cash cows and have no incentive to keep them safe. It’s a serious betrayal. Like finding out that the police have no obligation to actually help anyone in danger.
Missing & Exploited Children Often End up in Child Sex Ring Trafficking
In 1984, the United States Congress established the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). As part of the Missing Children’s Assistance Reauthorization Act of 2013, they received $40 million to study and track missing and trafficked children in the United States.
In 2017, NCMEC assisted law enforcement with over 27,000 cases of missing children. The majority of who were considered endangered runaways. According to their most recent report complied from FBI data and their own, of the nearly 25,000 runaways reported to NCMEC in 2017, one in seven were likely victims of child sex trafficking. Of those, 88 percent were in the care of social services when they went missing.
Showing the scope of the abuse, in 2017 alone, NCMEC’s CyberTipline, a national mechanism for the public and electronic service providers to report instances of suspected child sexual exploitation, received over 10 million reports. According to NCMEC, most of these tips were related to the following:
- Apparent child sexual abuse images.
- Online enticement, including “sextortion.”
- Child sex trafficking.
- Child sexual molestation.
Shocking Statistics on Child Sex Ring Trafficking
Other governmental organizations have corroborated this horrifying trend. In a 2013 FBI 70-city nationwide raid, 60 percent of the victims came from foster care or group homes. Later in 2014, New York authorities estimated that 85 percent of sex trafficking victims were previously in the child welfare system. In 2012, Connecticut police rescued 88 children from sex trafficking; 86 were from the child welfare system.
It’s bad enough that most sex trafficked kids come from within the system. However, the FBI discovered in a 2014 nationwide raid that many foster children rescued from sex traffickers, including children as young as 11, were never reported missing by child welfare authorities. You read that right! The organizations removing the kids don’t even know where they’re at. How does that happen?
As Michael Dolce, who specializes in these horrific child abuse cases, pointed out last year, “we have set up a system to sex traffic American children.” Indeed, and as the mainstream media continues to sensationalize issues like the non-crisis of vaping or measles or any other fear-mongering content, they are providing perfect cover to keep that system going.