UPDATE: A Year Later, Oregon’s Foster Care System Is Still a Horror Show.

The new data cover a period from November 18 through June 1, and were compiled by a University of Oregon law student. What the data reveal for this time period is:

•More than 130 foster children were housed in hotel rooms or office buildings

•Foster children lodged in such temporary housing are often supervised by unlicensed volunteer caretakers

•One 5-year-old stayed in a hotel for 55 days

•Many of the children in such temporary housing were 5 or younger

•One girl tried to throw herself out of a hotel window; another boy locked himself in the hotel room away from caretakers

•The average stay in temporary housing was 20 days

•The longest stays ranged from 48 to 85 days

This is the latest in a series of devastating examinations of the broken foster care system in Oregon.

Read the whole thing — which in these cases seems less like foster care and more like child abuse.