Hello Admiral Obvious, Here Is Your Recipe For Disaster

A state-funded residential program designed to teach young adults how to live safe, productive lives mixes 16-year old-girls in foster care with sex offenders in their 20s.

The program groups juvenile offenders — including registered sex offenders — with foster teens. Each person in the program lives alone in one of 15 apartments in a building on West University, near Kellogg and Seneca.

Dorothy Loyd, vice president for transitional living services at Ozanam Pathways, the nonprofit provider that operates the program, said Ozanam isn't the only provider that commingles offenders and foster teens. It occurs at programs across the state, Loyd said. Ozanam is following state policies, she said.

"If the program is guilty of anything," Loyd said, "it's for taking kids that nobody wants to work with."

So let me get this straight in my head.  Mixing teenage girls with low self-esteem and sex offenders at just the right age to lead them astray is okay because there is a lack of reporting?  And the defense is to say the kids are unwanted so it's okay?


The other people featured in the article make more sense.  Still, holy cow.  Just... holy cow.