The Omnibus Bill is funding a non-profit charged with multiple rapes and deaths of children!

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The $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill has $1 million earmarked for renovations for KidsPeace, a Pennsylvania nonprofit Rep. Susan Wild (D) represented in a 2005 lawsuit filed by a former patient who was anally raped by a counselor. As a corporate attorney, Rep. Susan Wild (D., Pa.) represented a children's psychiatric hospital after one of its counselors sodomized a teenage patient, arguing that the attack was a "medical incident" that should be covered by insurance. Earlier this year, Wild sought $1 million in congressional funding for the organization, which has had numerous other sexual assaults, homicides, and suicides at its facilities over the years.

Wild, who was recently appointed chair of the House Ethics Committee, represented the Pennsylvania-based KidsPeace in a 2005 lawsuit with the nonprofit’s insurance company over a settlement with a 15-year-old patient raped by his counselor, according to court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The patient, Matthew Craft, said counselor Dean Sine imprisoned and raped him in a facility bathroom. After the rape, according to Craft, KidsPeace staff treated him for constipation.

Sine was previously charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 1993 death of 12-year-old KidsPeace patient Jason Tallman. Sine sat on the 85-pound boy for 10 minutes as he struggled to breathe before dying from asphyxiation. (Sine was convicted in 2003 for molesting a 14-year-old boy in a case unrelated to KidsPeace.)

Wild selected KidsPeace out of a pool of hundreds of applications submitted to her office for congressional spending.

Wild represented KidsPeace in other litigation related to sexual assault at its facilities. Years after the case, an independent investigator found that the facility "had far more complaints than any other corrections-licensed juvenile facility" in the state, according to reports. Seventeen families who alleged abuse and negligence against Mesabi Academy settled with the organization last year for $1.5 million.

KidsPeace lobbyist Caren Chaffee. Chaffee has lobbied Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services for funding for KidsPeace facilities and its program to house unaccompanied children brought to the United States, according to lobbying disclosures. Wild praised KidsPeace in 2019 after visiting a facility.

The Department of Health and Human Services, which funds the unaccompanied minor program, has awarded more than $81 million in funding to KidsPeace since 2017, according to a federal spending database.