Trump administration forms presidential task force for protecting Native children in IHS [Indian Country Today]

Karen Clemmer 4/3/199:37 PM

Presidential Task Force created in response to a predatory pediatrician that had assaulted Native American children for years while employed at Indian Health Service

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced the formation of the Presidential Task Force on Protecting Native American Children in the Indian Health Service System.

A senior administration official hosted a White House conference call, and released statements to the media which outlined that President Trump has “charged the task force with investigating the institutional and systemic breakdown that failed to prevent a predatory pediatrician from sexually assaulting children while acting in his capacity as a doctor in the Indian Health Service.”
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