She is identified in court records simply by the initials “S.A.” While we don’t know her name, we do know a great deal about the emotional and physical abuse she endured in Texas’s foster care system. She became the state’s responsibility in 2001, when she was only five years old. There’s no question she was rescued from peril; S.A.’s adoptive mother was arrested on outstanding warrants while trying to enter Mexico with her boyfriend, a registered sex offender. But she wasn’t safe in the state’s care either. When she entered the system, S.A., like every child, was evaluated to determine how much trauma she had experienced and how extensive her care should be. The state deemed that S.A.’s needs were “basic,” the lowest level. During…The post Capitol Crisis appeared first on Texas Monthly.