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WFAA
Tanya Eiserer, WFAA April 2, 2015
Graphic pictures show black and blue bruises that covered Justin Cook’s body.
The 14-year-old teenager says he received those bruises at the hands of an 18-year-old who beat him, choked him and sexually assaulted him. He says the abuse happened at the Waxahachie foster home run by Texas Baptist Home for Children in 2013.
“They called me a liar and I was punished,” Cook said. “When I tried to report it, they wouldn’t believe me.”
For more than a year, Justin and his mother have been fighting to bring someone to justice for the abuse he says he suffered at the hands of another foster child.
On Wednesday, the family was notified via email that the Waxahachie Police Department was making a grand jury referral for aggravated sexual abuse of a child and injury to a child in the case. Police officials confirmed the cases were sent Thursday to the Ellis County District Attorney’s Office.
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