Juggalo's, London Bombers and Child Protective Services - LK Report for 9/17/17

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The broken-hearted stood up to give witness in Clinton, Iowa on October 8, 2016. After campaigning political candidates finished, families took the microphone. A soft-spoken, middle-aged woman went first.

More >> The 95% Failure Rate of Foster Care in America

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Young Indian couples travelling to the United States on short to mid-term job assignments are increasingly facing the menace of child confiscation by the country’s child protection agencies, who wrongly accuse them of abuse. The “child abuse” is determined using the controversial Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) indicator, the veracity of which is contested.

More >> Unfeeling U.S. agencies confiscate children from Indian parents

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The report noted that only four states — Arizona, California, Pennsylvania and Utah — considered Juggalos to be a gang and later versions of the Gang Threat Assessment dropped any mention of them altogether. But Juggalo nation has been in a legal battle to clear their members' names ever since, saying people have lost jobs, been harassed by police and even been impacted in child custody battles because of the label.

More >> Thousands of Juggalos expected to march on Washington on Saturday

Other Juggalos (and Juggalettes, as their female members are known) told stories of losing jobs, of being stopped by police, of being threatened with having their children taken away, all because of their musical preferences and face-painting.


More >> Juggalos in Washington: Don't call us a gang

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LANSING, MI - The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services could not take gun ownership into account when placing foster and adoptive children under a bill introduced by Rep. Holly Hughes, R-Montague.

More >> Foster parents would keep gun rights under new bill

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A TEEN suspected of being the Parsons Green bucket bomber is thought to be a refugee fostered by an elderly couple who were honoured by the Queen.

The 18-year-old - the youngest to be arrested over a terror attack in the UK - is being quizzed by cops after he was seized in Dover on Saturday.

More >> FOSTER KID 'IS BUCKET BOMBER’Parsons Green terror suspect, 18, revealed as ‘refugee taken in by MBE foster couple’ – as neighbours claim ‘problematic’ teen was arrested TWO WEEKS ago

• Teenager held over Parsons Green bomb was arrested in Dover port departure area
• Terror raids across London finger foster parents
• Claim: Surrey Terror Raid Home ‘Owned by Couple Who Foster Child Refugees’
• London subway attack: Second suspect in custody, police say

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A new poll by a children’s charity has revealed over 85% of UK adults surveyed show little or no interest in fostering, raising concerns over the future of foster care in the UK.

More >> Shocking survey reveals 'true scale' of foster care crisis

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The 5-year-old daughter of a Coal Township couple was allegedly beaten and bruised while in a Snyder County foster home.

Mary Ruiz said her seven children between the ages of 2 and 17 were removed from their home in April amid allegations she and her husband, Charlly, were using drugs. She said they still don't have custody of their children because Northumberland County Children and Youth officials say they remain "non-compliant."

More >> Mother: Child was beaten in foster care

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CHEYENNE – A local man was sentenced Thursday to at least 18 years in prison for sexually abusing a teenage foster child.

More >> Cheyenne man sentenced to prison for sexually abusing foster child

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A top state administrator is considering a change that would have state employees conduct the screening for prospective foster parents rather than out-source that work.

More >> DHS director reviewing screening process for foster care parents

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MINT HILL, N.C. - Frustrated neighbors are fed up with fights, violent outbursts and daily calls to police about a group home for children.

Mint Hill town leaders are researching what it would take to close it down if things don't change.

More >> Neighbors say group home for children is out of control

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The Arizona Department of Child Services recently updated its policy to clarify that the agency will not issue foster-care licenses to anyone who uses or possesses cannabis, even if legal under the state's medical marijuana laws. This decision is based on an anti-marijuana policy that the agency adopted in 2011, DCS spokesman Darren DaRonco said. DaRonco specified that DCS will not exclude potential foster parents that have been issued medical marijuana cards, but only those that actually use medical cannabis.

More >> Arizona Child Services Prohibits Medical Marijuana Users From Becoming Foster Parents

70% of Prostitutes Come From Foster Care - LK Report for 9/15/17

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Late last month, the Times made some rather astounding claims that Tower Hamlets council had placed a five-year-old white, British Christian girl into the care of a niqab-wearing Muslim family who didn’t speak English. As a qualified children’s social worker with more than 20 years’ experience, I suspected the story was exaggerated. My suspicions were confirmed within the next few days as the council claimed there were numerous errors in the reporting of the case and a court order was published.

More >> Muslim fostering row: Careless press must be held to account

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This year, another 10,000 children would have left care, what will happen to them?

What happens when a kid has to leave care after their eighteenth birthday? Are they able to get a job? Do they go to university? Has the government, seen as the ‘parents’, given them the tools needed to succeed in their future endeavours?

More >> 70% Of Prostitutes Come From Foster Care: Rebecca Southworth – One Of The Lucky Ones

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BENGALURU: At a health camp held in a reputed school in BTM Layout recently, a doctor and his staff were accused of abusing some girls.The students reached out to a teacher, who passed on the information to Childline Bangalore. But when she was asked to support the investigation, she pulled back. Even the girls' parents decided to stay quiet, saying the matter had been resolved.

More >> Teachers reporting child abuse often back out later

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Joel Kurtinitis’ opinion piece, “Attacks on homeschooling are short on facts” [Sept. 10], was missing some facts of its own.

Kurtinitis compared our database of homeschool abuse cases to the number of reports investigated by child protective services annually to claim that homeschool students are 4,000 times less likely to be abused. This is absurd. Our database includes only cases that are both especially horrific and hit the news. Even so, when we compared the fatalities in our database with a comprehensive list of child abuse fatalities nationwide we found that homeschooled children were no less likely to die from child abuse than children who attend school.

More >> Homeschool children are no more, no less likely to die from child abuse

• Local boy critically injured in state custody

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NORMAN, Oklahoma - A Norman teen is in a coma after he was injured at a state-contracted group home. His mother says she can't get any answers about what happened. 

More >> Norman Teen In Coma After Injury At Group Home

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GRAND FORKS, N.D. (Valley News Live) Internal emails revealed concerns with the leadership of the CPS department ultimately lead 11 people to leave a department of 7 people in just over a year's time.

More >> Families, former social worker claim dysfunctional CPS department is hurting kids

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Tiahleigh Palmer’s foster brother could be freed by January next year after being sentenced to four years in jail on Thursday afternoon.

Trent Thorburn pleaded guilty to four charges, including incest, after admitting to his mother in 2015 that he had had sex with then 12-year-old Palmer.

More >> Anger over 'pathetic' sentence for Tiahleigh Palmer's foster brother

• Tiahleigh Palmer's foster brother Trent Thorburn to appeal his four-year sentence on incest and perjury charges
• Trent Thorburn to appeal four-year sentence

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LINCOLN — Nebraska youths in state care attempted suicide in rising numbers last year, according to a new report.

More >> Report: Suicide attempts, sexual abuse cases rise among young Nebraskans in state care

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James Dunn is a former Lake County Foster Parent of the Year who fostered 12 different children with no complaints.

Now, the 42-year-old Concord Township resident will never be allowed to foster another child again.

More >> Former Lake County Foster Parent of the Year sentenced for crimes against boys

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Cape Town - A Khayelitsha father, 59, who has been charged with sodomising, raping and sexually abusing his now 16-year-old foster daughter between 2007 and 2013, will know next week whether he will be granted bail.

More >> Alleged rapist of foster daughter pleads for bail

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The number of child abuse investigations in Bucks County has nearly doubled over the last two years, while the annual turnover rate for caseworkers who investigate those claims is twice as high as it was before 2015.

More >> PA auditor general: Child-welfare system 'breakdowns' put kids at risk for abuse, death

• Report: PA child abuse workers swamped, underpaid
• 'SYSTEM IS BROKEN': C&Y workers overwhelmed, children at risk

No Foster Kids 4 U - LK Report for 9/14/17

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The Pennsylvania auditor general says the state’s child welfare system is broken.

Eugene DePasquale released a special report Thursday that took aim at the system by the numbers.

“What I found for my ‘State of the Child’ special report is appalling,” DePasquale said. “I’m talking about wholesale system breakdowns that actually prevent (Children and Youth Services) caseworkers from protecting our children from abuse and neglect.”

More >> Auditor general calls ‘State of the Child’ in Pennsylvania ‘appalling’

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The state DCS rejected her after she admitted she was a registered caregiver under the state's medical-marijuana law and kept a product in her home that contained cannabidol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound that's found in cannabis.

Yet the product, along with all other forms of cannabis, is perfectly legal for qualified users and caregivers under the state's voter-approved, 2010 medical-marijuana law.

More >> Arizona DCS to Medical-Marijuana Patients: We Don't Want You as a Foster Parent

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A south Arkansas mother whose 3-year-old drowned in a washing machine should not have had to surrender her newborn to the state months after an accident based on her "mindset," the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

More >> Arkansas judges overturn neglect case involving mother whose 3-year-old drowned in washing machine

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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee city planners are pushing forward with an idea to use tiny homes to help teens aging out of foster care.

More >> Milwaukee advances tiny house plan for foster care teenagers

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Hoping to combat the high cost of incarceration and break the cycle of children following their parents to prison, some cities have created programs to keep women out of jail and with their children.

More >> Breaking The Cycle Of Incarceration By Keeping Mothers And Children Together

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – When kids have no place to go, families across the state open up their homes. However, as KRQE News discovered on Special Assignment, the need outweighs what’s actually available.

More >> Growing number of New Mexico foster families house more than six kids

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It looks like Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans just can’t escape the custody battles these days. Since it was alleged that the reality star and her newborn daughter Ensley tested positive for marijuana, a new report has surfaced saying that Jenelle’s mother Barbara Evans has banned her daughter from seeing Jace, whom she has custody of.

More >> Barbara Evans Is Banning Jenelle Evans From Seeing Jace Following CPS Investigation\

Note: Usually it would be CPS that makes that decision.  In this case, grandma is playing God.

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The foster brother who allegedly had a sexual relationship with slain Logan schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer is set to be sentenced at a Queensland court.

Trent Thorburn, 20, is due to face the Beenleigh District Court on Thursday on charges of perjury, attempting to pervert the course of justice and incest.

More >> Tiah's foster brother to be sentenced

• Tiahleigh's foster brother sentenced
• Tiahleigh Palmer: foster brother sentenced to four years, including for incest

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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his resignation Tuesday. It comes after a man purporting to be Murray's cousin stepped forward claiming Murray sexually abused him in the mid-1970s when he was a boy.

More >> Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns following new sex abuse allegation

• These are the 5 men who have accused Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of child sexual abuse
• Timeline of child sex-abuse allegations against Mayor Murray
• Bombarded by Sex Abuse Claims, Seattle Mayor Now Accused by His Own Cousin
• With Ed Murray mess behind us, time to focus on child abuse
• Ed Murray: Sex abuse claim US mayor's time in Northern Ireland 'should be probed'

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Widlene Earle has never been to Canada, but she calls the country home and holds it in high regard because of its warm welcomes, cold snow and its eternal connection to Justin Bieber.

More >> Haitian daughter at risk as adoption process drags on, Newfoundland dad says

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(NEWSER) – A Maryland couple whose YouTube prank videos garnered them accusations of child abuse were sentenced to five years probation on child neglect charges Monday, BuzzFeed reports. Michael and Heather Martin entered a plea to avoid jail time, admitting the state had enough to convict them without actually admitting guilt. The Martins' YouTube channel, DaddyOFive, featured hundreds of videos of them "pranking" their five children, according to the Frederick News-Post. Prosecutors singled out one video showing Heather screaming obscenities at a crying 10-year-old Cody—their youngest child—after falsely accusing him of pouring ink on the carpet and another video where Cody is falsely told he is no longer going to live with them.

More >> Parents Sentenced for Child Neglect Over YouTube Videos

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In February 2015, Rebecca Wanosik took her then nine-week-old daughter Zeydn to the pediatrician. She was looking for answers for Zeydn’s seemingly inexplicable right arm pain. Instead, that one visit would end up turning her life upside down.

More >> MOM FIGHTS BACK AFTER BABY’S RARE GENETIC CONDITION WAS MISTAKEN FOR CHILD ABUSE
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Prosecutors said there was no evidence of crimes being committed at an orphanage where at least 400 children are thought to have been buried in an unmarked mass grave.

More >> 'No crime' over orphanage mass grave
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A growing number of parents say their children have been unfairly taken from them and adopted, lawyers and campaigners said today.

There are more than 100 cases where children have been adopted without sufficient evidence they are at risk from their birth parents, according to the BBC.

More >> Outcry from social workers over forced adoptions

Hillary Ain't Running Again!!! - LK Report for 9/11/17

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(Grand Marais, MN) A former Cook County Health and Human Services Director will no longer have custody, or be able to visit his children, after he was charged with child abuse. Television station K-B-J-R reports that 40-year-old Josh Beck made his first appearance in court today (Monday) at the Cook County Courthouse. A judge decided to give custody to the children's grandmother, who lives in Indiana.

More >> Former Cook County HHS Dir. Loses Custody Of Children Amid Child Abuse Charges

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CHILDREN WHO HAVE been sexually abused are being made to wait five years before their court cases are completed.

More >> Abused children being made wait five years before court case over

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For the past 27 years, Zo and Rusty Tichenor have taken in more than 100 foster children.

From the get-go, the Owensboro couple agreed to accept girls only who were 12 and older.

More >> Aging out: 18-year-old foster children confront life-changing decision
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Over 85% of UK adults surveyed on behalf of Action for Children showed little or no interest in fostering, the charity found.

Some 4,262 adults in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales were surveyed by YouGov in July 2017.

More >> More than 85% of adults would not foster a child, charity's survey finds
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Finally I get to post some good news.

The former secretary of state and author of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 says she will not pursue the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

More >> Hillary Clinton: ‘I am done with being a candidate’

Digging up the orphans - LK Report for 9/10/17

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A mum says she is outraged after a hospital trip ended with her partner being accused of child abuse because of a rash on her daughter's leg.

Jasmine Yates took her one-year-old daughter Amara to hospital in Suffolk with her partner Kevin Gardiner after they grew worried about a rash on her leg.

More >> Mum's heartbreak as her family was torn apart because her baby had a rash on her leg
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BILLINGS (AP) — Bonnie Littlesun is raising eight children, all but one of whom are her grandkids, and she wouldn't have it any other way.

More >> New court to connect Native American foster kids with family
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The bodies of hundreds of babies, toddlers and older children who were living in an orphanage are thought to be buried in a mass grave in Scotland, according to a new report.

More >> Bodies of hundreds of children 'buried in mass grave in Lanarkshire'

• Smyllum Park: 400 children may be buried in mass grave at orphanage at heart of abuse inquiry
• Hundreds of orphanage children buried in mass grave, investigation believes

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Torrington — Speakers at a "Know Your Rights" child protection forum Thursday at Torrington Public Library warned parents not to allow the Department of Children and Families to intimidate them and infringe on their rights.

More >> When it comes to DCF, lawyers warn parents to ‘know their rights’

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During Casey Ray Miller's time as a foster parent in Keizer, one of his foster children — an infant girl — left his care with seven broken bones.

He was convicted of two counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment for injuring the girl and withholding medical treatment. He was sentenced to 13 days in jail and ordered to have no contact with foster children and undergo anger management treatment and probation.

More >> Former Keizer man sentenced to 30 years for sexually abusing foster child
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Watch the video above for the full report from The Nation.

A former social worker says the Government's refusal to hold an inquiry into historical abuse in state care makes it complicit in a cover-up.

More >> State child abuse: Government accused of being 'part of a cover-up'
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The foster father of a young girl has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail for raping the child and filming explicit videos of her.

More >> Sexually abused 6yo girl raped in foster care in north Queensland in 'cruel abuse of trust'
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Texas' child welfare system was already in crisis before Hurricane Harvey. Now, perhaps hundreds of foster families have been displaced by the storm and hundreds of child welfare workers have been unable to return to work.

More >> Harvey deals a blow to Texas' already struggling child welfare system
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WASHINGTON D.C: Beware mothers-to-be! Taking antidepressants, both before and during pregnancy, may affect your child’s mental health, warns a recent study.

Researchers from the National Centre for Register-based Research at Aarhus BSS showed that there is an increased risk involved in using antidepressants during pregnancy.

More >> Antidepressants during pregnancy may affect child's mental health
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has approached the White House regarding interviews with individuals who were aboard Air Force One when staff drew up a misleading statement on the meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with Russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, CNN reported Thursday.

More >> Report: Mueller Asks To Interview WH Staffers Over ‘Adoption’ Statement

No going outside alone til you're 10 - LK Report for 9/7/17

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More >> Why A Mom Says She Had To Put Teen Into The Foster Care System
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The Queensland Government has publicly released three reports into the state's troubled child protection system, months after receiving them.

More >> Queensland's foster care system under reform

• Tougher checks for foster carers as Qld child safety reports released
• Tia Palmer’s tragic death leads to changes to child safety systems in Queensland

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Texas Standard spoke with Kaysie Taccetta of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services about the new "community-based model" for foster care in the state. One service provider in North Texas is already working within the model. The Standard paid the group a visit. Listen to that part of the story below.

More >> New Texas Law Will Create A More Private Foster Care System
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‘We can do a lot more, I think, but we need government to come on board to help us,’ said Kwanlin Dün Chief Doris Bill, at a Tuesday news conference with Council of Yukon First Nations Grand Chief Peter Johnston. (Mike Rudyk/CBC) First Nations leaders in Yukon say the territorial government needs to do more to reduce the number of Indigenous people behind bars.

More >> JUSTICE, CHILD WELFARE SYSTEMS ‘FAILING OUR PEOPLE’, SAY YUKON FIRST NATIONS
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Yet another bizarre, fact-free, and infuriating ruling has been handed down by Canada's Ministry of Children and Family Development.

For the past two years, Adrian Crook has been teaching his kids (ages 7, 8, 9, 11) how to ride the bus to school each day, a 45-minute trip. It went great, until earlier this year. The kids were friends with the bus drivers, familiar and confident with their route, and even got an emailed compliment from a stranger who was impressed by their competency.

More >> Father told kids can't ride bus to school or go outside alone until age 10
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WICHITA, Kan. — A boy whose body was found encased in concrete in a Wichita rental house Saturday was the grandson of a Kansas gubernatorial candidate and former Wichita mayor.

More >> Boy found dead in concrete in Kansas house was grandson of former Wichita mayor
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South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill says he makes no apologies for intrusive testing of potential child protection workers.

More >> SA child protection work applicants face intrusive sex-related questions
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LK Report For 9/6/17 - Killing Canadian Foster Kids

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The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on whether the state can determine that a mother is unfit because a court has previously terminated her right to parent other children.

More >> Missouri Supreme Court to consider how losing parental rights in the past should impact the future

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At least Hillary didn't win.
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Larimer County is asking the Colorado Department of Human Services to reconsider how it pays counties for child welfare efforts.

More >> Larimer County to state: You're funding child welfare wrong

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The government today took control of a local council's child protection services after a damning report found youngsters at risk of "significant harm".

Ofsted inspectors found "widespread and serious failures" in children's services at Croydon, south London.

Ofsted blamed poor practice, weak management and a high staff turnover for a series of failings.

More >> Croydon Council's child protection services put under government control over 'serious failures'

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There is nothing so heinous as a government failing to support its most vulnerable citizens: young children. Yet due to government neglect and chronic underfunding of critical social services, the number of deaths and critical injuries of children in foster care in Canada has steadily risen in recent years.

More >> Deaths of children in government care skyrocket in Canada

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The heartbroken biological father of a toddler murdered by her mother who stamped on her chest until her heart ripped blames social services for not saving his 'beautiful' daughter.

More >> 'I'll always remember her as the perfect little girl': Birth father of toddler who was stamped to death by her mother blames social services for not saving her

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MADISON (WKOW) -- A Madison woman who admitted slamming a foster child's head against a bathroom floor nearly a half dozen times before the 3-year old boy became unresponsive was sentenced to twelve months in jail Tuesday as part of an eight year probation sentence.

More >> Woman sentenced in foster child case
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The moment Greg regained custody of his 16-year-old daughter last summer, he immediately asked a social worker: "Where is she?"

That's when he learned she was missing — again — from the Nova Scotia group home where she'd been living. No one had seen her for weeks.

More >> The staggering number of children reported missing from Nova Scotia group homes
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SANTA FE – A Valencia County foster parent who says she was beaten by her ward has sued the state claiming she was not given enough information before she agreed to take in the 17-year-old.

More >> Foster parent sues state over beating by ward