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Foster mother charged with sexual assault

A Brownwood woman was arrested this week on an indictment for the sexual assault of a foster child who was in her care.

Phylecia Bien, 26, was indicted May 1 on a charge of sexual assault of a child in a case involving a 16-year-old male foster child in her care in 2005. The incident reportedly occurred in 2005 when he was 16 and lived with her for a month, police said.

"The alleged victim made an outcry to Child Protective Services," said Sgt. Troy Carroll of the Brownwood Police Department.

Bien was arrested on a sealed indictment Tuesday and booked in to the Brown County Jail and was released Wednesday on a $25,000 bond.

This is the second time Bien, formerly known as Phylecia Humphries, has been indicted on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child.

Bien was indicted on Jan. 10, for sexual assault of a child involving another 15-year-old male who was a foster child in her care in 2005. She was arrested and released on a $25,000 bond. The indictment followed a DNA test that was taken during the investigation from the alleged victim, that was compared to DNA from a baby Bien had in June of 2006.

"The test proved that there was 99.998 chance that the child was related to the alleged victim," Carroll said.

The January case is still pending in the 35th District Court in Brown County.

Officials at CPS said that Bien was not licensed through the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

"This home was licensed through a child placement agency," said Shari Pulliam, a spokeswoman for CPS. "She is no longer a foster parent, and CPS has not placed any children in that home in quite some time."

This the second indictment handed down this month involving alleged inappropriate relationships between a woman and a teenage boy.

Last week, a former teacher at Early High School turned herself in to police after being indicted on a charge of having an inappropriate relationship with an 18-year-old male student at Early High School.

Joy Blackstock, 23, of Brownwood, was indicted May 1 by the Brown County grand jury. The indictment was sealed until she turned herself in May 8. Blackstock, a choral teacher at Early High School, was released on a $15,000 bond.

Blackstock was charged with improper relations between an educator and student, a second-degree felony. If convicted, Blackstock faces two to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Police said she confessed after being confronted with the allegation by Early High School Principal Bobby Fryar on April 4. She resigned from EISD that day. Police said she confessed to "some sexual contact" with the student, whom they declined to name.

Comments

Posted by rvrm1969 on May 16, 2008 at 11:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Why connect this case with the teacher/student case?

Posted by rsjz4 on May 17, 2008 at 10:01 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Okay, if she already had one sexual assualt case against her then why did she have more kids placed in her home? And if she was not licensed, why was CPS placing kids there anyway?

Sounds like she had a thing for young boys.

Posted by gnreed on May 17, 2008 at 10:07 a.m. (Suggest removal)

"Why connect this case with the teacher/student case?"

Both are sex related offenses.

Posted by blahblah on May 17, 2008 at 10:56 a.m. (Suggest removal)

What is this world coming to??? I can't understand why they would place another child in her care after the first investigation (which she was impregnated).

Throw the book at her!

Posted by whatif on May 17, 2008 at 11 a.m. (Suggest removal)

We are soft on crime.

Posted by texmade2 on May 17, 2008 at 12:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)

WOW

Posted by strictnow on May 17, 2008 at 12:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

blah....read the article again. CPS
did not place a child with her. A
child placement agency did. Of course
they did so in the past. Seems to me
placing a teenager boy with a woman in
her 20's is not a good idea anyway.

Posted by ccmom on May 17, 2008 at 3:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Read it again. The first indictment was handed down in Jan 2008. The incident cited in the new indictment occured in 2005. I did not understand that to mean that another child was placed with her AFTER the first indictment. I agree with stictnow...placing a 15 year old with a 26 year old does not sound reasonable to me either.

Posted by wild_bill on May 17, 2008 at 9:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Just another good example of CPS and your tax dollars at work. No matter their "good intent" they screw up WAY more often than society can afford. Every time CPS makes a mistake people's lives are changed forever. Over-react or under-react, it's always the children who suffer.

Posted by YadaYada on May 19, 2008 at 12:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)

CPS at its best. CPS licenses the child placement agency, so CPS is, in the end, responsible. Although the CPS spokesperson makes it sound as though they aren't responsible. That is how CPS operates on a daily basis, lie and misconstrue information and evidence.

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