Accounts of numerous sex assaults and fights at a state-funded Harwinton shelter for adolescent girls were “outliers,” but Connecticut’s system of emergency shelters is seeing an overall increase in other misconduct and behavioral problems, the head of the Department of Children and Families told a legislative hearing. A three-year concentration of disorder, arguments and girls simply walking .
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Department of Children and Families officials described the agency’s efforts to oversee an emergency group home for girls in Harwinton, which was the focus of a Wednesday legislative hearing called in response to a series of allegations involving abuse and sexual assault.
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