Homestead facility worker got prison term for child sex abuse.

An investigation in 2016 of the Homestead shelter holding migrant teenagers resulted in a youth care worker pleading guilty to sending nude video of herself to a 15-year-old boy and asking him to have sex with her.

The care worker, who was employed by a contractor, is now serving a federal prison sentence in Tallahassee for swapping explicit images with a child she met while working in the facility.

The Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, where more than 1,000 migrant teenagers are kept, has come under renewed scrutiny after it barred Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz from entering Tuesday.

The lawmakers wanted access to check on the welfare of children being kept there amid outrage over a Trump administration crackdown that resulted in families being separated at the southern U.S. border.

Nelson said at least 94 children at the center were separated from their parents. An additional 174 are being held elsewhere in Florida, but it’s unclear where they are being held.

A spokesman with Health and Human Services, the agency that oversees the center, didn’t respond to questions about the incident or steps the agency has taken to keep children safe. It also has offered few details on Florida’s role in Trump’s immigration crackdown, declining to reveal exactly how many children separated from their parents are being held in Florida.

Merice Perez Colon, then 35, pleaded guilty in August 2017 to attempted coercion and enticement of a minor and was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, according to court records.

Perez Colon admitted that she sent nude photos and videos of herself to an unaccompanied immigrant minor and requested and received video of him masturbating. Her attorney did not return a phone call seeking comment.

The boy was at the facility in the summer of 2016. He was released and resettled in South Carolina in October of that year

Perez Colon struck up an online relationship with the boy after he left the facility, according to court documents.

“You have to come to Miami to have sex with me,” she wrote in one message.

Perez Colon was “contracted by an outside agency to work as a youth care worker,” but court records did not specify which company employed her.

Comprehensive Health Systems, a Cape Canaveralbased company, had an active contract to staff the center when Perez Colon worked there.

The center closed in March 2017 but was reopened in February.

The federal government signed another contract worth nearly $31 million with Comprehensive Health Systems when the center was reopened.

A Comprehensive Health Systems spokeswoman said she’s barred from commenting because of a Health and Human Services policy. She referred questions to the government agency.

Merice Perez Colon was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for enticement of a minor, records show.