Wednesday, August 07, 2019

LK Announcement

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Good morning. I have decided to retire Legally Kidnapped.  After over 12 years of bring you the latest headlines regarding CPS fraud, f...
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Sunday, August 04, 2019

I’m a Mom Fighting for Custody — & the Parents Giving it Up for College Aid Make Me Sick

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A group of Illinois parents has been in the news recently for taking advantage of a legal loophole in order to get their kids college financ...
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What's next for the former Corpus Christi officer accused of impersonating a CPS worker?

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A former Corpus Christi police officer accused of posing as a Child Protective Services worker will go to trial in September after a judge r...

Foster Parents Who Beat 2-Year-Old to Death Cry as They Are Found Guilty of Murder

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On Thursday, a Georgia jury convicted a 30-year-old woman and her 29-year-old husband of murdering their 2-year-old foster daughter in 2015,...

DCF declines to pursue case after witness claims to see child punished at restaurant

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The Department of Children and Families has declined to pursue a case after a witness called police about what was viewed as excessive force...
Saturday, August 03, 2019

School-lunch debt cleared; N.E. Pa. superintendent ‘appalled and upset’ by district’s foster-care threats to parents

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As of Thursday, no family in the Northeastern Pennsylvania school district that attracted national attention for its efforts to collect stud...

Foster grandparent pleads guilty to child sex abuse

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A Franklin County foster grandparent is in prison for sexually abusing five children. James Horton pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of...

Foster care providers fear loss of funding due to Family First Act

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A successful foster care provider in Saline County is fighting for kids he serves. For 19 years, Second Chance Youth Ranch has housed ...

Illinois DCFS: Agency didn't track kids sleeping in offices

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The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has acknowledged it didn't track how many children were forced to sleep in its o...

IN DEPTH: Incarcerated parents learn to live away from their children while remaining relevant to families

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Marcus and Jasson Jr. can’t wait to wrestle with their dad. The brothers sat with their grandmother, Kim Howell, on July 3 inside the fami...

A police officer tried to report suspected child neglect to the state’s 24-hour hotline. He was told to leave a message and wait up to 4 days for a callback.

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A small police department in the northwest suburbs had received several calls about a local family, raising the possibility that young child...

Voices for Children report shows racial disparity in calls to Nebraska abuse/neglect hotline

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A report by Voices for Children in Nebraska shows children of minority groups are more likely to be the subject of maltreatment reports to t...

US asylum laws foster child trafficking at southern border, Utah Sen. Mike Lee says

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Left unchanged, U.S. asylum laws will continue to let human traffickers bring children across the southern border and sell them as sex slave...
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Wrongful death lawsuit names CYFD, foster parent

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An amended lawsuit brings on new accusations in the 2017 death of a baby girl in the care of a state-licensed foster parent. CYFD, social ...

Birth mom charged in adoption fraud case locked up on new bond violation

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A birth mother charged in a nationwide adoption fraud case has been locked up once again. Enhelica Wiggins appeared in U. S. District Court ...

Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith were once accused of ‘abusing and not feeding’ daughter Willow

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Jada Pinkett-Smith and her husband Will Smith were once accused of ‘abusing’ and ‘not feeding’ their daughter Willow. Jada, 47, reveal...

‘A deeply broken process’: DCFS on how kids in its care end up sleeping in offices

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The recent revelation that children under the care of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services had been sleeping in adminis...

Erica Parsons' adoptive mother pleads guilty to murder, child abuse

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Casey Parsons, the adoptive mother of slain Rowan County teenager Erica Parsons, pleaded guilty Friday morning to murder and child abuse in ...

Department of Children doesn't know identity of 37 childcare facilities at 'critical' level of risk

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THE DEPARTMENT OF Children has said it does not know the identity of the 37 childcare facilities which Tusla has identified where critical l...
Friday, August 02, 2019

A Parent’s Worst Nightmare

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Suppose one day you arrived home and learned that you no longer had authority over your minor teenage son.  Unbeknownst to you, your son rec...

Texas pediatrician on border crisis: ‘Kids don’t go in cages’

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Over a 13-year career as a pediatrician in Texas, Dr. Marsha Griffin has visited every government facility that could hold newly arrived mig...

After boy’s death, family sues L.A. County’s child welfare agency for $50 million

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Even years later, tears still flow easily for Maria Barron when she describes her efforts to rescue her nephew, Anthony Avalos, from his abu...

White Couple That Abused Adopted African Children Avoid Jail Time

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A white couple made headlines last year after they adopted two African children only to neglect, starve and force them to live in deplorable...

Independent Report Finds Shortcomings in RI DCYF

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An independent report on Rhode Island's child welfare agency has found serious shortcomings. The Providence Journal reports that the P...

Couple found guilty in the murder of two-year-old foster child

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It was jaw dropping and tearful moment in a Henry County courtroom as a couple learned they were found guilty of murdering a two-year-old to...