by Emily Ramshaw and Terri Langford, Houston Chronicle
January 7, 2011
Seven months after The Texas Tribune and the Houston Chronicle revealed staff at a Manvel residential treatment center had forced young girls with disabilities to fight each other, the state has shuttered Daystar Residential Inc. The move follows the Harris County medical examiner’s determination that a 16-year-old foster child’s death at the facility — one that occurred in November following a physical restraint — was a homicide.
“Today, we have revoked Daystar’s license to operate, effective immediately,” Department of Family and Protective Services Commissioner Anne Heiligenstein said in a statement. “This facility is just not safe for children.”
