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Sex abuse allegations surface at SF facility for troubled children
by Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, November 18 - 2019

The Edgewood Center for Children and Families, a long-standing San Francisco nonprofit serving vulnerable children and teens, is reeling in the wake of two incidents this year in which staff members allegedly sexually assaulted minors residing at the Sunset District facility.

Both of the alleged assaults, separate incidents involving two staff members no longer with Edgewood, were reported by the alleged victims, one of whom was 14 years old. The Chronicle could not obtain information on the age of the second alleged victim because details about that incident remain confidential.

The San Francisco district attorney's office has charged one of the former staff members with five counts of committing lewd acts on a minor. The other was arrested in May and charged with possessing child pornography and communicating with a minor for sex, but has not been charged in connection with alleged incidents at Edgewood. One incident allegedly occurred in late 2018, but did not surface until this year. The second allegedly took place in April.

The alleged incidents were investigated and substantiated by the state Department of Social Services, which oversees facilities like Edgewood.