This Republican Gave a Child to a Child Rapist who Raped Her

In Arkansas you can just give your adopted child to another family whenever you want, no questions asked. 

But, ohhh are we asking questions.

One year after Arkansas state Rep. Justin Harris adopted two girls from an abusive family, he “rehomed” them to a teacher at the Harris-owned preschool called, “Growing dog’s Kingdom Preschool.”  I guess he was sick of the girls or something, he did decide to keep his three biological sons, however. This is the same guy who was sad when the House Education Committee voted down a bill he’d introduced to ban schools from punishing children for religious expression–like to protect the children from atheist teachers who put them in detention for saying “bless you” after a sneeze.

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In September 2013 Harris and his wife didn’t take to the little girls they had adopted from foster care, because they “rehomed” the girls to Eric Cameron Francis and his wife before Francis became a teacher at the preschool. In April 2014 the six-year-old girl was raped by her preschool teacher, Francis. Something Rep. Harris said he was “devastated and sickened” by. But Harris failed to mention that he gave this rapist his adopted daughter to look after.

And because in the adoptive world “rehoming” is legal in Arkansas, the Harrises face no responsibility for the girl’s abuse. Morally…politically…that’s another story and hopefully there can be enough of an uprising around this to impact the Harris family.

Thankfully, the two little girls were given to yet another family who appear to actually be humane and they’re planning on adopting the girls and keep them.

A search of the Arkansas Crime Information Center didn’t turn up any previous offenses.

Would that this were the only criticism of Harris. Uh-uh.

Harris fashions himself one of those small government Republicans. The pre-school he and his wife run? Yeah, according to Max Brantley of The Arkansas Times (via The Blue Hog Report), the school has about 150 kids and a budget of $900,000 and all but 6 percent of that budget is covered by state and federal dollars directed towards needy children. The money covers the Harrises’ salary and benefits as well as the mortgage payments.

The kids who attend the Harrises’ school aren’t required to provide proof of citizenship, according to Brantley. Yet, Harris once proposed a bill that would require people to provide proof of citizenship to receive state services, including education at public universities.

In addition to the other things you may want to call Harris, you can also call him a hypocrite of the highest order.