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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Terri Langford

Foster child death linked to state-contracted home prompts criminal investigation

The Thompson’s Residential Treatment Center in Greenville, Texas on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.
Thompson’s Residential Treatment Center in Greenville, pictured here on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, has closed after the death of an 11-year-old foster care boy who was living there. (Credit: Emil T. Lippe for The Texas Tribune)

The state has shut down a residential treatment center in northeast Texas, three months after one of its charges — an 11-year-old boy — died in an incident that foster care officials and local law enforcement are investigating.

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