Natalie Ausbie Reynolds v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice Morriss

In June 2012, it was reported to the Greenville, Texas, office of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (the Department) that a fifteen-year-old girl, A.K., 1 had run away from home, had troubling activities and associations— using illegal drugs and living with non-family adult males—and needed the Department’s assistance. 2 On June 13, 2012, the Hunt County Sheriffs Department located A.K at the home of a twenty-three-year-old male and transported her to the Hunt County Juvenile Detention Center. On A.K.’s arrival, the center’s personnel…