L.A. county officials moved to end a program that housed about 50 foster youth because an apartment in one of the buildings where they lived was the subject of murder and human trafficking investigations, according to officials and documents.
County officials shut down a housing program for about 50 young adults transitioning out of foster care last month after learning that one unit in a La Verne apartment building where several lived was the alleged site of a killing and the subject of a human trafficking investigation, according to authorities and court documents.
Elijah Thomas Rouse, 18, and Shaun Cardarelli, 37, have been charged with murder during the commission of a robbery. Davone Anthony Smith, 26, has been charged with accessory to murder. A 16-year-old has been charged in juvenile court with murder and robbery, according to the L.A. County district attorney’s office.
Cagle said concerns about the “commercial sexual exploitation of children” factored into his decision, which he made in conjunction with the staff of L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, whose district includes La Verne. Cagle said he did not know about the August murder investigation or its “relationship to our youth” until his November contact with La Verne police.
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