WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — State officials removed foster children from a Wichita group boarding home last year after a federal agency said it suspected sexual and physical abuse, according to newly released records.

An emergency suspension order said failures at Carla’s Youth Residential Center, which housed up to 10 teenage girls at a time, created a situation that put the residents “at risk of on-going physical and emotional harm,” according to records the Kansas Department of Children of Families released last week in response to a records request. The order also said that federal officials “have reason to believe that the residents … are not in a safe living environment and have been the victims of sexual and physical abuse.”

The media sought records about the girls’ removal after the center asked for a Sedgwick County judge to review the suspension decision. In a petition filed in state court last month, the home said it operates “in a good and proper manner that does not endanger children” and its license suspension was based on “opinion accusation” rather than facts.

The state’s suspension order didn’t give details about the exact nature of the suspected abuse or when it might have occurred. But it does say that DCF’s licensing division started investigating the home on Nov. 17 after receiving a report of “potential inappropriate contact of a sexual nature” between residents that staff may have known about. That same day, all of the girls living there were removed, DCF Secretary Gina Meier-Hummel said. They have since been placed at other group homes, in foster care homes or were reintegrated into their own homes, she said.

Meier-Hummel said she could not give additional specifics about the allegations because of the ongoing investigations. But, she said, DCF has been in contact with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General “from the moment they got involved.”

The suspension order says the home’s executive director, Carla Hobbs, and her facilities are the subject of an ongoing federal investigation. Hobbs also ran two housing programs designed to prepare older teenage girls and young women to live on their own. Those homes were not mentioned in the suspension order.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General denied a media request for records, saying it could interfere with an ongoing investigation.