Colombia University professor Theo Sandfort, who has published multiple works on paedophilia. (YouTube/ eNCA)
New York City Children’s Services has cut ties with Theo Sandfort, the author of a landmark study on LGBT+ youth in foster care after his decades-old paedophilia research resurfaced.
In 2015, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) commissioned Columbia University professor Theo Sandfort to design a study looking at the proportion of LGBT+ youth in the New York City foster system.
The landmark study, which was conducted in 2019 and published in November 2020, showed that more than one in three children in foster care were LGBT+.