WTNH.com by: Ken Margolfo
HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) – An employee of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families has been arrested for helping a child sex trafficker avoid police.
Hartford Police have charged Melisa Roberson, a social worker at DCF, with hindering prosecution and risk of injury to a minor.
According to police, on Friday they had notified a person wanted on child sex trafficking-related offenses was at DCF on Hamilton St. When officers arrived DCF staff refused to allow them into the building, and Roberson, the suspect’s social worker, snuck the woman and her 4-year old child out of the building through a rear exit and drove them to another location.
Police say the suspect was allowed only supervised visits at DCF and that Roberson was aware the suspect’s parental rights had been removed due to the investigation of suspected child sexual abuse and trafficking.
