Man allegedly stalked his DFCS worker after ‘she took his kids away’

A Floyd County man was arrested last week after he allegedly stalked a worker with the Division of Family and Children Services, officials said.

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More US kids in foster care; parental drug abuse a factor

NEW YORK (AP) - The number of children in the U.S. foster care system has increased for the fourth year in a row, with substance abuse by parents a major factor, according to new federal data released on Thursday.

The annual report from the Department of Health and Human Services counted 437,500 children in foster care as of Sept. 30, 2016, up from about 427,400 a year earlier.

More >> More US kids in foster care; parental drug abuse a factor

• Number Of American Children In Foster Care Increases For 4th Consecutive Year

State pays $43,000 to settle lawsuit alleging cover up in horrific child abuse case

A former internal investigator at the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services who alleged that her superiors wanted her to cover up mistakes made in a horrific child abuse case in Berea has settled her whistleblower lawsuit.

More >> State pays $43,000 to settle lawsuit alleging cover up in horrific child abuse case

Fired Child Protective Services supervisor demands job back

The attorney for a terminated Transylvania County Department of Social Services supervisor whom the courts ordered reinstated told Carolina Public Press this week that he’s planning to file a contempt complaint against the county and several officials who have refused to give the supervisor her job back.

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15 States Ranked the Most Corrupt in America for 2017

This isn't about child welfare per say...

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Alberta advocate says province not ‘doing enough fast enough’ to protect children

In Alberta, there are too many children in the child welfare system and too many who are trying to take their own lives says the provinces child and youth advocate.

“One of the things we are quite concerned about with Indigenous young people is the number of people in care of the government,” said Del Graff. “They are vastly over-represented in Alberta.

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As Artificial Intelligence Grows in Government, Experts Urge Caution

A.I. simulates human intelligence and changes the way it behaves without intervention. It can perform both simple and complex tasks. For example, A.I. can schedule meetings for workers, search for documents or even fill in forms by asking users specific questions. In the case of the more complex situations, A.I. can predict the best time for a caseworker to intervene in a child welfare case.

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CRISIS OF FAITH Approximately 394 Muslim foster kids placed with Christian families — and 101 Christians kids placed with Muslims

We asked all 152 councils across England for details of cross-religious fostering involving Christians and Muslims.

Just over half — 79 — refused, meaning the true total is likely to be far higher.

More >> CRISIS OF FAITH Approximately 394 Muslim foster kids placed with Christian families — and 101 Christians kids placed with Muslims

Study Suggests Florida Could Use Less Foster Care, More “Light Touch” Help for Families

The number of Florida youth in foster care fell from 29,229 in 2006 to 18,040 in 2013. But the number is on a steady incline again, up to 24,059 as of this summer.

The state has struggled to recruit enough foster homes to keep up with the increase. But a study out of one of Florida’s most populous counties suggests that much of this new influx could be handled without the use of an out-of-home placement, and in some cases, without much child welfare involvement at all.

More >> Study Suggests Florida Could Use Less Foster Care, More “Light Touch” Help for Families

Foster care license suspended following child's death

An investigation into the death of a toddler at a St. Paul foster home has caused state regulators to temporarily suspend the caregivers' license.

More >> Foster care license suspended following child's death

Sherin Mathews' doctor warned CPS months before death that 3-year-old had been abused

A Dallas doctor who examined Sherin Mathews in March and found she had several bone fractures called Child Protective Services to report concerns that the 3-year-old had been hurt at the hands of her parents.

"I tried, actually, very hard to find another good explanation, and I didn't have one," said Suzanne Dakil of the Referral and Evaluation of At Risk Children Clinic, also known as REACH.

More >> Sherin Mathews' doctor warned CPS months before death that 3-year-old had been abused

• State asks Sini, Wesley Mathews about Sherin's broken bones in CPS hearing

Foster care policy ‘helps cross-county traffickers’

A “morally irresponsible” policy of placing children from London into foster care far from the city is fuelling the spread of cross-country drug trafficking, a senior head teacher has warned.

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Sherin Mathews' foster mother Sini seeks right to visit her biological daughter, to remain under house arrest

Houston: The foster mother of a three-year-old Indian girl, who was found dead in a culvert in Dallas last month, on Wednesday returned to court and sought right to visit her biological daughter.

Sini Ann Mathews, 35, on Tuesday managed to get her bail bond slashed to $1,00,000 from $2,50,000 but would remain under house arrest and wear an ankle monitor.

More >> Sherin Mathews' foster mother Sini seeks right to visit her biological daughter, to remain under house arrest

Immigrant Parents Jailed in Texas Fight to Reunite With Kids

Fighting to dismiss charges of illegally entering the country while separated from their children they brought north with them, five Central Americans claim the government is keeping them in the dark about their children’s whereabouts and giving them no choice but to plead guilty to reunite their families.

More >> Immigrant Parents Jailed in Texas Fight to Reunite With Kids

Child protective investigator arrested for allegedly falsifying records

JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - A child protective investigator has been arrested for allegedly falsifying records.

According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, 44-year-old Jason Kent, a former Department of Children and Families child protective investigator, falsified records of face-to-face interviews on seven different child endangerment cases from December of 2014 to April of 2015.

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China child abuse scandal: Police accuse parents of making claims up

A child abuse scandal that has rocked China took a shocking turn Tuesday, as police accused two parents for fabricating tales of their children being drugged and molested at a Beijing kindergarten.

More >> China child abuse scandal: Police accuse parents of making claims up

Minn. 2-year-old's death in foster home investigated

After a 2-year-old girl died in a St. Paul residence this month, the state suspended the home's foster care license.

Police said Tuesday they continue to investigate the circumstances of the child's death on Nov. 13. No one has been arrested and police have not said whether they believe the girl's death is suspicious.

More >> Minn. 2-year-old's death in foster home investigated

Mum grilled by cops and social services after her newborn son sucked on his own arm leaving a red mark

Kirsty Clarke, 33, had to wait two days in hospital as docs scanned her newborn and social workers quizzed her seven-year-old son

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Orphaned child’s 10-year battle for a birth certificate

For the past ten years, Bronwyn Moss and her family have been battling to register an orphaned child with the Department of Home Affairs.

Moss, from Mooinooi in North West Province, has been advised to adopt the child in order to get his documents, but she cannot adopt without documents proving who he is.

More >> Orphaned child’s 10-year battle for a birth certificate

Sherin’s foster mother’s bail bond reduced to $100,000

The foster mother of a three-year- old Indian girl, who was found dead in a culvert in the US state of Texas last month, has managed to get her bail bond reduced to USD 100,000 from USD 250,000 but she would remain under house arrest and wear an ankle monitor.

More >> Sherin’s foster mother’s bail bond reduced to $100,000

BREAKING: Child Protective Services Knocks At Obama’s Door After Sasha Is Caught With Cocaine

Note: I assume this to be fake news.  I'm posting it because it's an interesting story.

Barack and Michael Obama may have stayed in Washington D.C. to give their youngest daughter Sasha a chance to finish school, but she may not do that if she keeps this up.

Child Protective Services reportedly showed up at the former President’s $4.7 million dollar mansion that doubles as his “resistance headquarters” on Wednesday after an incident that occurred at Sasha’s exclusive private school, the Hastings Academy.

More >> BREAKING: Child Protective Services Knocks At Obama’s Door After Sasha Is Caught With Cocaine

Lawsuits challenge Nebraska's denial of extended foster care to immigrant youth

Nebraska Appleseed has asked a judge to review the state's denial of extended foster care benefits to two 19-year-olds due to their immigration status.

Both teens — one in Omaha, the other in Schuyler — aged out of the state's foster care system and have federal Special Immigrant Juvenile Status.

More >> Lawsuits challenge Nebraska's denial of extended foster care to immigrant youth

Phyllis Gilmore’s startling admission about foster-care runaways

Ten years ago, my organization released a report on Kansas child welfare. We noted that the state was taking children from their families at a rate far above the national average, even when rates of child poverty were factored in.

More >> Phyllis Gilmore’s startling admission about foster-care runaways

Judge Kurt Pomrenke to be immediately removed from office

The Virginia Supreme Court has ordered that Juvenile Judge Kurt Pomrenke be removed from office.

A document dated today from the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission of Virginia says that Pomrenke’s conduct affects public confidence in the judiciary, the confidence of coordinate branches of government, the reputation of the judiciary, and the expectations of our fellow judges.

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CPS Grabs Newborn Baby From A Disabled Christian Mother After The Parents Expressed A Desire Not To Vaccinate

Sometimes a story comes along that makes your blood boil, and this is one of them.  All over the nation CPS is stealing children from Christian families that express concerns about the safety of vaccines, but I never expected it to happen in north Idaho.  Actually, a large number of families from all over the country have moved to Idaho in recent years specifically because of the vaccine issue.  In Idaho, there is no legal requirement to vaccinate your children, and so no child should ever be taken away because parents do not intend to vaccinate.  Unfortunately, that appears to be what happened in this case.

More >> CPS Grabs Newborn Baby From A Disabled Christian Mother After The Parents Expressed A Desire Not To Vaccinate

How the Foster Care System Fails So Many Kids—And How We Can Do Better | Sixto Cancel, Think of Us

A video from the Clinton Foundation.  So you know what they're saying.

When it comes to life after foster care, there is typically not a lot of hope on the horizon, says Sixto Cancel, who has been in and out of the foster care system since he was 11 months old. He was lucky enough to take part in programs that set him up for an independent life when he turned 18—how to manage finances, find a job, apply for an apartment, buy a car—but his story is the exception, not the rule. The stats are not good: 20 percent of young people in foster care will experience homelessness within the first two years of leaving the system. 50 percent are underemployed. Only 3 percent earn a bachelor's degree. These negative outcomes are the reason Cancel founded Think of Us, a non-profit platform that gives vulnerable youths tools and resources to plan their life, and empowers them to build a network of adult mentors they trust.

Former Clinton Foundation Executive Tied to Chinese Kindergartens Investigated for Child Abuse

For the second time, a Chinese kindergarten run by the RYB Education New World company is being investigated for abusing children, this time with allegations of staff injecting children with unknown substances, feeding them white pills, and forcing them to strip naked for “health checks” by nude men.

The Beijing-based, New York-listed RYB Education company has Joel Getz as an independent director. Getz was president of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City and is the former director of development for the Clinton Foundation.

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Kansas’ lax requirements for social workers fail the state’s children and families

In the aftermath of five high-profile child deaths, record numbers of children entering foster care and recent reports of the Kansas Department for Children and Families using gag orders to cover its shortcomings, DCF is clearly in crisis.

More >> Kansas’ lax requirements for social workers fail the state’s children and families

What is Foster Care Panic? And Does it Affect Child Welfare in Michigan? (Pt. 4)

Perfect parents do not exist. Only human parents trying their best.

More >> What is Foster Care Panic? And Does it Affect Child Welfare in Michigan? (Pt. 4)

Most children in Iowa's foster care system reunite with their birthparents, some never find their way back

After the state moved Nicolas back into the care of his birth mother, Breanne French tried to accept he wasn’t hers to keep.

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Canada to Pay Millions in Indigenous Lawsuit Over Forced Adoptions

OTTAWA — For decades, Canadian social workers forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, putting them up for adoption by nonnative families in Canada and around the world.

On Friday, the Canadian government took a step to make amends for that adoption program, which began in the 1960s and lasted till the 1980s, by agreeing to pay 750 million Canadian dollars in legal settlements.

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Canada's Trudeau Apologises For Boarding School Abuse

Justin Trudeau has apologised to hundreds of indigenous peoples in Canada who were forcibly placed into a system of boarding schools that were rife with abuse, but some local leaders say the prime minister's apology does not go far enough.

Trudeau apologised to the indigenous students who attended residential schools in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, on Canada's east coast, on Friday morning.

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Disproportionate number of Aboriginal children in foster care

Stories in the news about children in foster care are often tragic — their endings tend to involve things such as homelessness, addiction or even death.

But there are strategies that could turn those twisted tales upside down and improve the lives of young children whose families fall apart.

More >> Disproportionate number of Aboriginal children in foster care

New leader of Kansas’ troubled child welfare department promises ‘new transparent agency’

TOPEKA - The newly appointed leader of Kansas’ embattled child welfare system said she will conduct a top-to-bottom review of the department and push for a “new transparent agency.”

Gina Meier-Hummel said the department also must thoroughly review and learn from cases where children are killed or severely injured. For months, critics of DCF have said the agency is more interested in protecting itself than the state’s most vulnerable children.

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How ‘flawed’ B.C. court rulings tore 4 kids away from their dad for 5 years and counting

It’s one of the most alarming family justice cases in Canadian history: A high-conflict custody battle with allegations of sexual abuse by a father and incompetence by B.C.’s Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) that raises serious questions about how our system deals with families at their breaking point.

More >> How ‘flawed’ B.C. court rulings tore 4 kids away from their dad for 5 years and counting

Foster dad, 45, and 65-year-old man are arrested for ‘running a prostitution ring out of a Massachusetts senior living facility, pimping out kids in his care and paying them with heroin and cocaine’

A foster dad allegedly pimped out children in his care along with a 65-year-old accomplice as they ran a prostitution ring from an apartment at a senior living facility in Massachusetts.

Pittsfield police arrested 65-year-old Joseph Van Wert and 45-year-old foster dad Randy Lambach and held them without bail on charges including human trafficking.

More >> Foster dad, 45, and 65-year-old man are arrested for ‘running a prostitution ring out of a Massachusetts senior living facility, pimping out kids in his care and paying them with heroin and cocaine’

• Two men arrested for running prostitution ring out of senior living facility

After long custody battle, children to soon return to parents

TOPEKA – While the family of Raymond and Amelia Schwab celebrated Thanksgiving together for the first time in three years, the couple, who have been engaged in a longstanding custody battle with the state, say the fight isn’t over.

Raymond Schwab said he has “woken up to what’s happening within the system,” and will continue to be vocal about the Kansas Department for Children and Families.

More >> After long custody battle, children to soon return to parents

• Schwabs say their children will be returned to them by Christmas

Report says multiple DCFS workers in Illinois attacked

CHICAGO • At least a dozen Illinois Department of Children and Family Services workers have been attacked or seriously threatened while trying to protect children or investigate mistreatment allegations since 2013, according to a newspaper's analysis.

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HOMESCHOOLING GROUP SUES NYC OVER ‘SYSTEMATIC MISTREATMENT’

A homeschooling advocacy group is suing the government of New York City (NYC) for “systematic mistreatment of homeschoolers” because the city’s slow processing of paperwork has resulted in homeschooling families being falsely accused of crimes.

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State ranked 1st in count of kids of jailed parents

Arkansas surpasses all other states in the percentage of its children who have had a parent or guardian locked up, according to a new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

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Sisters take legal action against Glasgow City Council after foster parent 'abuse'

THREE sisters are taking legal action against a council, claiming they were abused by their foster carers for nearly two decades.

The siblings say they were “beaten and abused” by John and Alma Cassidy in Glasgow during the 1990s and 2000s. According to a newspaper, Alma Cassidy is said to have physically attacked the girls by day, while her husband subjectedthem to sexual attacks at night.

More >> Sisters take legal action against Glasgow City Council after foster parent 'abuse'

FOX 4 investigation finds systemic failures at Kansas DCF that allowed Adrian Jones’ torture to continue

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- After a lifetime of torture and abuse, seven-year-old Adrian Jones died in a shower stall where he was held prisoner, beaten and starved. His body was then fed to the family's pigs.

More >> FOX 4 investigation finds systemic failures at Kansas DCF that allowed Adrian Jones’ torture to continue

Prison for Windsor Twp. foster father who molested boy

A Windsor Township pedophile who had a foster child placed with him by York County caseworkers despite his previous convictions must serve at least five years in prison for sexually assaulting the foster child.

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Foster Care Youths Leaving the System Before They Age Out, Study Finds

BETHESDA, Maryland — Youth in the foster care system are leaving before they age out of the system, a new report finds.

Forty states offer at least some form of support for youths until their 21st birthday, yet nearly three-quarters of social service officials told researchers that their wards were overwhelmingly leaving the system when they turned 18, Child Trends says in a new report. It doesn’t address the reason why.

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Kentucky still working out how to pay grandparents, others providing free foster care

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky's top social services official said Monday that the state is still working out how to pay some relatives, many of them grandparents, who have been providing free foster care to children removed from homes because of abuse or neglect.

But Adria Johnson, commissioner of the state Department for Community Based Services, said officials can't say when payments of around $25 a day might start for those who qualify under the court ruling.

More >> Kentucky still working out how to pay grandparents, others providing free foster care

Major child protection non-compliance in Cork foster care services

An inspection by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) has found major and recurring problems with the ability of Tusla foster services in Cork to properly protect children.

The inspection report by Hiqa was critical that the service area had no system in place to ensure children were not placed with foster carers who had open allegations made against them.

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Sherin's foster mom seeks bond reduction hearing: report

Houston, Nov 22 The Indian-American foster mother of Sherin Mathews who was found dead in a culvert in Dallas under suspicious circumstances, has requested a bond reduction hearing in her child endangerment case, according to a media report today.

More >> Sherin's foster mom seeks bond reduction hearing: report

Jail is wrong for Herring

The editorial, “Life in Prison” regarding the Herring case, got it all wrong. First off, it makes too simplified of a conclusion, that Herring deserved life in prison and second, the piece fails to mention exactly how her lawyers blew it.

Failing to mention that a psychological evaluation showed that Herring suffered from delusions and anxiety, which was brought up in court at the sentencing hearing, is important. Clearly, Herring is emotionally disturbed and mentally unstable. Having delusions is an indicator of that. In cases of PTSD, delusions and anxiety are present, too. The lawyers needed to show the court just how disturbed she was at the time of the murders. Instead, they agreed to a plea deal for criminal charges and jail. Herring really needs to be in a mental hospital receiving psychiatric care. She won’t get that in jail.

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Foster father of slain schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer is indicted for the 12-year-old's murder and dumping her body on a riverbank

Rick Thorburn has been indicted for the murder of his 12-year-old foster daughter Tiahleigh Palmer in October 2015.

Tiahleigh's body was found on the banks of the Pimpama River six days after she went missing while in the care of Thorburn and his family.

More >> Foster father of slain schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer is indicted for the 12-year-old's murder and dumping her body on a riverbank

I-Team: Questions raised after child dies in foster care

LAS VEGAS - A foster father accused of killing the boy he was supposed to be caring for calls it an accident.

Craig Dickens says he became a foster parent to 1-year-old Daevon Branon-Banks after a short interview with Child Protective Services, or CPS, and a background check but no training. Four months later, he was accused of killing the child.

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Judges under 'intolerable pressure' from social media, says new Lord Chief Justice

Judges are being put under "intolerable pressure" by social media users who criticise their decisions, the Lord Chief Justice has said.

In his first interview since becoming the most senior judge in England and Wales last month, Sir Ian Burnett warned that abuse of judges "undermines the rule of law" and damages confidence in the judiciary.

More >> Judges under 'intolerable pressure' from social media, says new Lord Chief Justice

More: They should learn to suck it up.

Court finds state lacked evidence to sever mother's rights

PHOENIX
The Arizona Court of Appeals has reversed a decision that severed a woman's parental rights to her two children, ruling the state lacked evidence to support the action.

The panel of three judges sent the case back down to the juvenile court last week after finding faults in how the state Department of Child Safety constructed the case, The Arizona Republic reported .

More >> Court finds state lacked evidence to sever mother's rights

Indigenous kids largely apprehended because of poverty, says former child protection worker

A former child protection worker, once with the Ministry of Child and Family Development, says, in her experience, Indigenous children are largely being apprehended due to poverty, and their parents are being over policed when trying to reunite with them.

Portia Larlee started her role in communities in north central B.C. in 2015 and said she lasted a year and a half before she quit out of frustration. She said most of her clients were Indigenous.

"It was mostly neglect related to poverty that would put parents at risk of state intervention,"  she explained.

More >> Indigenous kids largely apprehended because of poverty, says former child protection worker

Foster parent shortage in Scotland leads to one in five sibling groups being split up

A report published by the Care Inspectorate, Scotland’s social care watchdog, revealed that three in four councils reported instances where the number of children requiring a foster care placement was greater than the placements available.

More >> Foster parent shortage in Scotland leads to one in five sibling groups being split up

Note: That and the fact that they're stealing too many kids.

ACLU: Forcing Faith Out of Adoption

It may have been unintentional, but a recent lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union could nonetheless result in many children being displaced from adoption agencies who would otherwise have been happy to care for them and find families to adopt them.

The ACLU is currently suing the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Children’s Services Agency for allowing religious adoption agencies to adhere to their faith tenets as they conduct their work—which for them means placing children in a home with a mom and a dad.

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Canada legalized euthanasia. Now parents are asking doctors to kill their sick kids

TORONTO, November 20, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Euthanasia has been legal in Canada for just over a year and pediatricians are already “increasingly” being asked by parents to euthanize disabled or dying children and infants, a survey by the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) has found.

American anti-euthanasia activist Wesley Smith said the results of the survey prove the morally slippery slope that a nation slides down when it agrees that “killing is an acceptable answer to human suffering.”

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Report says 20% of siblings taken into care are split up

Almost 20% of sibling groups taken into care were split up because of a difficulty in finding suitable placements, a report has said.

The Care Inspectorate report said more high quality fostering and adoption places were needed.

Almost 60% of local authorities had difficulties placing sibling groups.

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Junction City man accused of sexually abusing foster child, 10

Oregon State Police troopers are looking for a Junction City man accused of sexually abusing a foster child in his care, according to a search warrant affidavit filed last week in Lane County Circuit Court.

Joe Albert Raygosa, 45, and his family, including his wife and three biological children, abruptly moved from their rental home on Pine Court in Junction City last month after Eugene police questioned him about the sexual abuse allegations made by one of two former foster children.

More >> Junction City man accused of sexually abusing foster child, 10

Foster Care Youths Leaving the System Before They Age Out, Study Finds

Youth in the foster care system are leaving before they age out of the system, a new report finds.

Forty states offer at least some form of support for youths until their 21st birthday, yet nearly three-quarters of social service officials told researchers that their wards were overwhelmingly leaving the system when they turned 18, Child Trends says in a new report. It doesn’t address the reason why.

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Schwabs say Court is allowing children to return home

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The couple who staged a hunger strike on the steps of the Kansas Capitol to protest the state taking their children is getting their kids back.

Raymond and Amelia Schwab tell 13 NEWS a Riley County judge ruled Monday that the family should be re-integrated. They'll have unsupervised weekend visits while they arrange for schooling and medical care in Colorado, where the couple now lives, with four of the children permanently going home over Christmas break. The fifth will remain with his grandmother in Kansas to finish high school.

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2 accused of ‘willful killing’ of foster teen found in Atlanta street

Two men accused of shooting a teenager who was in foster care and leaving her dead in an Atlanta street are in the DeKalb County jail on aggravated assault charges in a separate attempted armed robbery case.

Police believe slain 17-year-old Dennetta Franks may have been involved in the Sept. 19 armed robbery with her accused shooters, Wayne Rendell Bailey, 19, of Newnan, and Eddie Byrd, 18, of Atlanta, according to police reports obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

More >> 2 accused of ‘willful killing’ of foster teen found in Atlanta street

Former foster parent accused of sexual abuse of teen in his care

A former Kenosha County foster parent was charged Monday with sexually assaulting a teenager in his care more than two decades ago, and investigators said additional foster children may have been victimized.

Gary M. Reed, 65, of Manitowoc, was charged with repeated sexual assault of a child. According to the criminal complaint, Reed lived in Twin Lakes and Randall during the time the assaults allegedly occurred.

More >> Former foster parent accused of sexual abuse of teen in his care

Man who sexually abused teen placed in his care by York County given 5 to 10 years in prison

Ronald Witmer, 50, of Windsor Township, had pleaded guilty to involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and corruption of minors. He must register as a sex offender under Megan's Law for life.

More >> Man who sexually abused teen placed in his care by York County given 5 to 10 years in prison

FOX 4 investigation finds systemic failures at Kansas DCF that allowed Adrian Jones’ torture to continue

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- After a lifetime of torture and abuse, seven-year-old Adrian Jones died in a shower stall where he was held prisoner, beaten and starved. His body was then fed to the family's pigs.

His parents, Michael and Heather Jones, pleaded guilty to murder, but they may not be the only ones responsible for the tragedy of Adrian Jones.

More >> FOX 4 investigation finds systemic failures at Kansas DCF that allowed Adrian Jones’ torture to continue

Arizona Agency Defies DEA, Okays Cannabis Extracts for Foster Parents

A new rule on foster parenting released by the Arizona Department of Child Safety still discriminates against cannabis patients, yet defies federal authorities in approving cannabis extracts.

The rule codifies a September decision about a possible foster-care license for a woman who treats her adopted 12-year-old son's self-injuring behavior with cannabidiol (CBD).  Phoenix New Times received a copy of the ruling last week after a public-records request.

More >> Arizona Agency Defies DEA, Okays Cannabis Extracts for Foster Parents

Rapist dad sentenced to seven years behind bars for raping daughter, foster sister

She calls him George – the man who started raping her when she was just two years old. The churchman she fought three governments for nine years to bring to book for turning her childhood and those of many other girls into a nightmare. Her father.

Last week, 40-year-old Marijke Mwathi finally saw her father, George Bennet Donald, 67, sentenced in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court to an effective seven years imprisonment for the rapes of her and her foster sister.

More >> Rapist dad sentenced to seven years behind bars for raping daughter, foster sister

Father says wife took girls because they were in danger in foster care

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Central Texas mother remains in jail after police say she abducted her daughters from their AISD school last week.  The 10-year-old along with her two older sisters were found in Florida on Thursday.

Their father tells KXAN that his wife left the state on Tuesday out of fear for their daughters’ safety.  Court documents say police were able to track their mother Sarah Jordan’s cell phone.

More >> Father says wife took girls because they were in danger in foster care

False alarm? Parents’ ‘discipline’ reported as child abuse

The parents of an elementary school student living in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, were taken aback when they were contacted by police for an inspection into their alleged child abuse.

A local media outlet reported Monday that the parents had raised a stick to their child for stealing from a friend and a store. The act was intended to be for discipline’s sake, but a visiting teacher who glimpsed the act thought of it as child abuse and alerted the polic

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Parents urgently warned over consequences of alienating children from other parent

Parents engaging in Doctor Foster-style attempts to alienate children from their other parent during divorce battles could lose contact under a "groundbreaking" trial.

The new approach, devised by the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), is aimed at tackling parental alienation by urging them to consider the "profound" emotional impact on the child.

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Foster families keep getting child welfare payments despite broken adoptions

Lawrence Booker had been living apart from his adoptive family for about two years when he learned they might still be receiving money for his care — money that could have gone a long way toward helping him instead.

The situation Booker faced — a disrupted or broken adoption — is common enough that one New York children’s legal advocacy organization found that, at one point, roughly 20% of its voluntary placement foster care clientele had experienced it.

More >> Foster families keep getting child welfare payments despite broken adoptions

Foster kid placed in West Philly 'house of horrors' wins $11M in lawsuit

Walter Ola Scott, 63, has been inmate #MK5319 since his 2015 conviction on multiple charges of sexually abusing children, and is currently serving a 20-year sentence at the state correctional facility in Graterford.

But new details are only now coming to light about what exactly transpired inside Scott's West Philly home, which was once a government-sanctioned foster home for children in need.

More >> Foster kid placed in West Philly 'house of horrors' wins $11M in lawsuit

South Brunswick Social Worker Charged With Sexual Assault Of Highland Park Juvenile

SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ – A township social worker is charged with sexually assaulting and smoking pot with a Highland Park juvenile under his care, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office announced Saturday.

Miguel Garrido, 23, of Monmouth Junction faces multiple sexual assault counts including first degree aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 16, police said.

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'Untethered to the evidence': Court reverses DCS case that cut mom off from kids

In a rare move, the state Court of Appeals has reversed a decision that severed a mother's rights to her two children, saying state child-welfare workers presented a case "not sufficiently rooted in the evidence."

The court cited numerous flaws in the evidence — or a lack thereof — presented by a Department of Child Safety caseworker, as well as a state-appointed psychologist who evaluated the mother. Writing for the three-judge panel, Acting Presiding Judge Peter B. Swann concluded there appeared to be only one motive to separate the mother from her kids: that the children were adoptable.

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10 Arrested for Converting Kids to Islam at Illegal Orphanage in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: Ten people were arrested on Monday for allegedly converting children from poor families to Islam after luring them under the pretext of free food and education at an orphanage-cum-school in Hyderabad.

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How traffickers exploit children in Haiti's orphanages

There are at least 30,000 children living in orphanages in Haiti. It is a staggering number for a country of 10 million people, but perhaps even more shocking, most of them are not orphans.

The government estimates 80 percent of the children living in orphanages have at least one living parent.

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Three sisters sue council over alleged child abuse by foster couple branded 'two of the worst humans'

Three sisters have launched legal action against a council after they were placed with foster parents they accused of abusing them.

The siblings claim they were beaten and sexually abused by John Cassidy and his wife Alma over nearly two decades at their home in Glasgow.

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DCFS workers face violence on the job

At least a dozen Department of Children and Family Services workers have been attacked or seriously threatened as they entered homes to protect children or investigate mistreatment allegations since 2013, a Tribune analysis of government records and interviews found.

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Note: Of course it has nothing to do with them lying, the fraud, the unfairness or the fact that these people come to destroy families.  It's poor innocent babystealers just doing their jobs.

Woman finds her 3 siblings, separated by Sixties Scoop, in documentary airing on CBC

The woman at the centre of a film about four siblings' reunion after being split up as children as part of the Sixties Scoop, says she hopes it sheds light on an issue many people still don't know about.

More >> Woman finds her 3 siblings, separated by Sixties Scoop, in documentary airing on CBC

Divorcing Parents Could Be Banned From Seeing Kids If They Try To Turn Them Against Their Ex-Partner

A "groundbreaking" process now being trialled means divorcing parents could face tougher regulations if they try to turn their children against their former partner.

According to the Children And Family Court Advisory And Support Service (Cafcass), there is a significant amount of parental alienation in the 125,000 cases it deals with every year, the Guardian reports.

More >> Divorcing Parents Could Be Banned From Seeing Kids If They Try To Turn Them Against Their Ex-Partner

Mom, girls sought by police had fled foster care danger, dad says

Fear for her daughters’ safety inside a South Austin foster home prompted Sarah Marcella Jordan of Cedar Park to violate a court order last Tuesday when she picked them up after school and drove them to Florida, triggering a multistate search that ended in her arrest, her husband said.

Authorities found Jordan’s daughters safe in Florida on Thursday, but not before Central Texas law enforcement agencies had roused the public and the media to help them in their search.

More >> Mom, girls sought by police had fled foster care danger, dad says

Columbus foster girl told brother she feared for her life. She ended up dead in Atlanta.

About two weeks before Dennetta Franks’ body was found riddled with bullets on an Atlanta roadway, her brother picked her up from a house on Victory Drive where she felt her life was in danger, he said in a recent interview with the Ledger-Enquirer.

More >> Columbus foster girl told brother she feared for her life. She ended up dead in Atlanta.

NJ Case worker sexually assaulted child he oversaw, prosecutors say

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - A case worker stands accused of having sex with a child he was overseeing and using marijuana with the victim.

Middlesex County prosecutors announced Saturday that 23-year-old Miguel Garrido, of South Brunswick, was charged Friday with numerous counts, including aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment. A telephone number for him could not be located and It wasn’t known if he’s retained an attorney.

More >> NJ Case worker sexually assaulted child he oversaw, prosecutors say

Former foster children demand Royal Commission of Inquiry

Former foster children are demanding a Royal Commission of Inquiry into historical abuses, saying the proposed ministerial inquiry could easily turn into a cover up.

The new government has pledged to set up an inquiry into the abuse of children in state care.

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Kansas child welfare official has no answer when state senator asks about ‘shredding of notes’

TOPEKA
Members of a task force meeting on child welfare issues Tuesday had just about completed their morning session when a state senator had one more question.

“I think everybody in this room is fully aware of The Kansas City Star article coming out on transparency,” said Sen. Laura Kelly, a Topeka Democrat. “And one of the issues that came up in there was the shredding of notes from meetings in DCF (the Department for Children and Families).

More >> Kansas child welfare official has no answer when state senator asks about ‘shredding of notes’

A Case Study in Misleading Legislators, Everyone Else About Child Welfare & Opioids

Want to see how to pull the wool over the eyes of state lawmakers? Check out the testimony at a legislative hearing in Florida on child welfare and the opioid epidemic.

The problem of drug abuse, like the problem of child abuse, is serious and real. But when the hysteria over one meets the hysteria over the other the result is catastrophic for children: a surge in needless foster care. That surge affects children where drug abuse really is a problem — and where it isn’t. The latest “drug plague” becomes the all-purpose excuse to take the child and run.

More >> A Case Study in Misleading Legislators, Everyone Else About Child Welfare & Opioids

Patchwork services fail youth aging out of foster care, national survey concludes

The 22,400 children who turn 18 and age out of state foster care systems across the country annually without a permanent family face grim prospects: Within two years, about one in four wind up incarcerated, one in five become homeless, four in 10 drop out of high school and 71 percent become parents by age 21.

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Lutheran Services employee charged with child abuse

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Fort Myers Police arrested a Lutheran Services case manager for allegedly abusing a 2-year-old.

According to a press release, Caitlin Carrol, 27, is facing charges of cruelty towards a child - abuse to a child without great bodily harm.

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Parents With Low IQs Fight For Custody Of Their Sons After Some Say They’re ‘Not Smart Enough’

Amy Fabbrini and Eric Ziegler are the proud parents of two sweet boys: 4-year-old Christopher and 8-month-old Hunter.

But Amy and Eric say their kids were taken away from them without their permission — all because of their IQ levels.

More >> Parents With Low IQs Fight For Custody Of Their Sons After Some Say They’re ‘Not Smart Enough’

5th Anniversary of the Queensland Governments Apology for Forced Adoption

The Queensland Post Adoption Working Committee (The Benevolent Society, ALAS, Origins, Association for Adoptees Inc and Jigsaw) invite you to join them for a commemorative morning tea to honour the 5th Anniversary of the Queensland Governments Apology for Forced Adoption Policies and Practices.

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Traffickers lure UK children in foster care with 'web of lies'

housands of traumatized children in foster care in Britain go missing, with some returning to traffickers who feed them "a web of lies", charities said on Thursday, urging better protection.

UK children's charity Barnado's said on Thursday that 16 percent of children referred to its fostering network had been sexually exploited or abused, and 17 percent were trafficked.

More >> Traffickers lure UK children in foster care with 'web of lies'

What does the arrest of Sherin Mathews’ mother mean for the case against her father?

In the latest development of Sherin Mathews’ tragic story, her mother, Sini Mathews, was arrested Thursday and charged with child endangerment.

Police said she and her husband left the adopted 3-year-old alone in their Richardson home the night before she died last month, and took their 3-year-old biological daughter with them to dinner.

More >> What does the arrest of Sherin Mathews’ mother mean for the case against her father?

• Sherin's foster mother moved to Dallas County Jail

Sisters reported missing in Texas found during traffic stop in Florida

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. (WEAR) — The search for a 10-year-old Austin, Texas girl and her sisters has ended in Pensacola, Florida. Their non-custodial mother, 38-year-old Sarah Marcella Jordan, is now in the Escambia County Jail awaiting extradition to Texas for interference with child custody.

More >> Sisters reported missing in Texas found during traffic stop in Florida

'Disturbing' child adoption ads removed following criticism from Indigenous people

The ads were listed as anonymous profiles on a now altered Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) website. Anyone could use a search engine to find children by age, race and gender — a feature that some Indigenous people found distasteful and even harmful.

More >> 'Disturbing' child adoption ads removed following criticism from Indigenous people

House sitter murder suspect had been foster child in same home, prosecutor says

The suspect in the killing of a house sitter in Woodbury, New Jersey was once a foster child in the same home, authorities say, and had gotten out of prison the day before the murder.

More >> House sitter murder suspect had been foster child in same home, prosecutor says

Surrogate mother who changed her mind must hand baby to gay couple, court rules

A surrogate mother has lost custody of her child after a court ruled he would be better placed with the gay couple who arranged for her to have the baby.

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FOSTER PARENT CHARGED WITH SEX ACTS AGAINST CHILD

THOMASVILLE, N.C. -- The Davidson County Sheriff's Office has arrested a former foster parent after allegations surfaced that he sexually assaulted an 8-year-old child who was in his care.

According to a news release by DCSO, George Stephen Holtz, 72, of Thomasville, has been arrested and charged with sexual acts by a custodian and indecent liberties of a minor.

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Columbus foster girl found fatally shot in Atlanta listed as suspect in carjacking

Dennetta Franks, the 17-year-old Columbus foster girl found dead in Atlanta nearly two months ago, is listed as a suspect in an attempted carjacking along with two teens now being charged with her death.

The incident occurred on Sept. 19, which was 12 days after Franks ran away from a Holiday Inn Express at 7336 Bear Lane in Columbus. When she disappeared, she was under the 24/7 supervision of a guardian from Cedar Tree Children and Family Services, an organization responsible for juveniles awaiting placement into a home by the Department of Family and Children Services, according to police and DFCS officials.

More >> Columbus foster girl found fatally shot in Atlanta listed as suspect in carjacking

Russian Government Takes Children from Foster Mother Because of Breast Surgery

When Yulia Savinovskikh had a double mastectomy in July, she was aware of the likely physical side effects of the surgery. But she felt the procedure was worth it; after three pregnancies, her breasts were causing her pain and other health problems. What she wasn’t expecting – and the most painful of all – was the removal of two foster children from her care and their placement in an orphanage.

More >> Russian Government Takes Children from Foster Mother Because of Breast Surgery

Adoption Agency Hit With $11M Verdict in Child Abuse Lawsuit

An adoption agency that sent a 5-year-old girl to live with a couple who subjected her to sexual and physical abuse in their foster home has been hit with an $11 million verdict by a Philadelphia jury.

More >> Adoption Agency Hit With $11M Verdict in Child Abuse Lawsuit

Indian child Sherin Mathews' mother arrested for 'endangering' her

Less than a month after three-year-old Indian child Sherin Mathews was found dead in Dallas, officials have arrested her foster mother for leaving her alone the night she was reported missing.

More >> Indian child Sherin Mathews' mother arrested for 'endangering' her

DCF Shooter Jody Herring Sentenced to Life Without Parole

A woman who murdered three relatives and a Department for Children and Families social worker was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday during an emotional hearing in Washington Superior Court.

Judge John Pacht said Jody Herring's August 2015 killing spree, triggered by the DCF's decision to take custody of her 9-year-old daughter, was the "hardest case" he'd seen in his 35-year legal career.

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Siblings reunited after years of searching

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Admittedly, the search for her siblings had slowed somewhat. Twenty-three years before, Brandie Ramey’s family had been ripped apart, the children shuffled off into foster care and then adopted into different homes.

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Foster care abuse victims will soon be eligible for compensation

The highest court in the United Kingdom has overturned a Court of Appeal decision, opening up the right to hold governments liable for the sexual and physical abuse of State wards in foster care.

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the highest court for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

More >> Foster care abuse victims will soon be eligible for compensation

Kansas panel slams DCF over handling of foster children

Members of the Kansas Child Welfare Task Force met in Topeka on Tuesday, asking hard-hitting questions of how to improve the court's response to protecting abused and neglected children.

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Sherin Mathews’ sister to be removed from foster care to live with extended family

The four-year-old sister of Sherin Mathews, the Indian American girl found dead in a culvert last month, will be removed from foster care to live with extended family.

A family court judge in Dallas has ruled to move the child out of foster care, reported Dallas News. But, it is not clear which relative will have custody of the girl. So, the change won’t happen immediately, said Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marissa Gonzales.

More >> Sherin Mathews’ sister to be removed from foster care to live with extended family

Ohio is only state where police are not required to report child abuse

Anyone who works with children -- including doctors, teachers, camp counselors and therapists -- is required by Ohio law to report suspected child abuse or neglect to either a children services agency or police.

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Judge sentences mother who shot the bitch who stole her kid

BARRE, Vt. — A judge has handed down his sentence for quadruple murderer Jody Herring.

Herring, 43, admitted to fatally shooting three of her family members and a social worker two years ago.

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Note: That's bullshit.  20 years for each of her family members and life without parole for killing a babystealer.  It should be the other way around.

Jody Herring's daughter back in police custody

Montpelier, Vt. - Jody Herring's daughter, Desiree is in police custody after she was located by law enforcement at the Cumberland Farms in Montpelier on November 14.

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Herring’s mother Jody is accused of killing Department for Children and Families social worker Lara Sobel, 48, of East Montpelier, on August 7, 2015. Herring is also accused of killing three relatives, Regina Herring, 43, Rhonda Herring, 48, and Julie Ann Falzarano, 73, who were found dead in a nearby Berlin home the day after Sobel was killed. Jody Herring is currently at her sentencing hearing at Vermont Superior Court in Barre.

Maine's Foster Care System Breached

(TNS) –– The Maine state government is notifying 2,100 Mainers who have received foster care benefits that their personal information was temporarily compromised.

The Maine Office of Information Technology said Monday that names, addresses and Social Security numbers of people involved with the Department of Health and Human Services’ foster care system, including children and their legal guardians, were posted on a third-party website and taken down when state officials noticed.

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FYI: I didn't do it.

Adopted children removed from home, 51 animals found in unsanitary living conditions

A Lubbock woman has been charged with child endangerment after 28 dogs, 20 cats, two chickens and a lizard were found living inside a home with her and three children between the ages of 14 and 9.

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Metis '60s Scoop survivor files human rights complaint

The Government of Canada discriminated against Metis survivors of the ’60s Scoop when it left them out of an $800 million settlement agreement, a Saskatchewan man argues in a complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

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• Sask. man files human rights complaint over Métis exclusion from Sixties Scoop settlement

New study examines value of routine laboratory screenings for children entering foster care

CINCINNATI -- Routine laboratory screening recommended for children entering foster care carries high costs and questionable medical benefits.

A new study, published online in Pediatrics, suggests that targeted screening may be a more clinically meaningful approach and reduce costs.

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Kansas DCF grilled about “document shredding” by lawmakers

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – The Kansas Department for Children and Families struggled to answer questions at the statehouse Tuesday about reports that DCF employees are being asked to shred documents.

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DCF: No link between welfare reform, rising foster care numbers; researchers say otherwise

TOPEKA — Kansas child welfare officials said Tuesday that they can find no link between the rising number of children in foster care and recently enacted laws that make it harder for people to qualify for welfare benefits.

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KIDS FEAR THEY WILL NOW BE SENT TO FARAWAY SCHOOLS

The state government's recent decision cancelling the licences of 214 aided orphanages in Maharashtra, three of them in the city, has put the education of the children staying there in jeopardy.

The children currently housed in these orphanages either go to school in the vicinity of these orphanages, or attend schools run by the same organisation.

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Patchwork services fail youth aging out of foster care, national survey concludes

The 22,400 children who turn 18 and age out of state foster care systems across the country annually without a permanent family face grim prospects: Within two years, about one in four wind up incarcerated, one in five become homeless, four in 10 drop out of high school and 71 percent become parents by age 21.

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1 in 5 Youth Age Out Of Foster Care in VA Without Adult Connection, Study Finds

A new national report released today (11/14) shows that more Virginia youth are aging out of foster care without permanent homes than most other states across the country.

20% of the Commonwealth’s youth aged out of foster care on their own in 2014, more than double the national average.

More >> 1 in 5 Youth Age Out Of Foster Care in VA Without Adult Connection, Study Finds

Lawmakers call for major reform in Kansas after Star series on state’s culture of secrecy

Kansas lawmakers from across the political spectrum said they will push to fix the state’s culture of secrecy in the wake of a Kansas City Star series that highlights stunning levels of opacity in state and local government.

More >> Lawmakers call for major reform in Kansas after Star series on state’s culture of secrecy

• Kansas child welfare official has no answer when state senator asks about ‘shredding of notes’

Two Kansas judges bring gavel down on DCF, contractors’ handling of foster children

A pair of Kansas judges peppered a legislative task force Tuesday with concerns about staffing, bureaucratic and communication shortcomings of state government and private contractors responsible for care of children subjected to abuse or neglect.

More >> Two Kansas judges bring gavel down on DCF, contractors’ handling of foster children

Man taken into custody after threatening caseworker with knife

SHAMOKIN — A man wielding a bread knife had to be subdued by police using force when a Children and Youth caseworker decided to remove his child from his home.

Patrolman Shane Mowery said the child’s grandfather had received a call from her Tuesday afternoon. The girl was crying and told her grandfather she needed to get out, so he went to 25 W. Independence St., Apt. 304, police said.

More >> Man taken into custody after threatening caseworker with knife

Coroner releases preliminary autopsy report on man fatally shot by BR police officer during struggle

The cop was aiding and abetting a CPS Agent.

Troopers with Louisiana State Police are investigating a deadly shooting by a Baton Rouge police officer during a struggle Monday evening, as they worked fast to put to rest a social media rumor that was only making matters worse.

More >> Coroner releases preliminary autopsy report on man fatally shot by BR police officer during struggle

Neighbors blame DCF for death of 3-year-old Okaloosa County girl

WEAR is learning more about the family and the death of three-year-old Adelynn Merrell in eastern Okaloosa County.

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Girl rescued from horrific conditions awarded $4 million settlement from state

LAKE STEVENS, Wash. (KOMO) - A young girl rescued from horrific conditions will now receive $4 million from the state. The Department of Social and Health Services settled a lawsuit today, after the girl's family accused the agency of ignoring repeated warnings about her health and safety.

Cheyene Lewis was living in squalor in a house that was stomach turning. Police search warrant video shows buckets of what appears to be excrement. Officers walking through the home recorded filthy conditions with sopping wet carpet and no heat.

More >> Girl rescued from horrific conditions awarded $4 million settlement from state

SKIN AND BONES Cruel foster mum ‘starved orphan boy, 11, for eight years so she could spend sickness benefits on luxuries’

A WICKED foster mother faces ten years behind bars after allegedly starving and “torturing” a little orphan boy so she could claim sickness benefits.

Lyubov Korotkova, from Magadan in east Russia, is accused of "extra cruelty, humiliation and torture" after depriving the lad, 11, of food and drugging him for eight years.

More >> SKIN AND BONES Cruel foster mum ‘starved orphan boy, 11, for eight years so she could spend sickness benefits on luxuries’