Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pennsylvania. Show all posts
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...
Sunday, July 28, 2019

School official loses job after letter threatening child custody over lunch debts

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The fallout continues from a letter sent by a Pennsylvania school district to parents who owed lunch money debts. More >>  School of...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Pennsylvania district sorry it warned that lunch debt could lead to foster care, accepts $22K donation

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A Pennsylvania school district is apologizing for threatening students’ parents with possible foster care over unpaid lunch debts and has ac...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Pennsylvania County Says It Will Never Put Children in Foster Care for School Lunch Debt

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People in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, were shocked last week when a local school district sent hundreds of letters telling parents who owe...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Foster Mothers Challenge Philadelphia’s ‘Discriminatory’ Adoption Agenda

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Two Philadelphia foster mothers are asking the Supreme Court to defend religious adoption agencies from a city policy that would declare the...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Pennsylvania School Board Members Criticize Threatening Lunch Money Letter

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Five of nine members of the Wyoming Valley West School Board tell FOX40 sister station WNEP the district should not have threatened to place...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

Project PA: Just uncovered documents give 'Kids for Cash' victim hope in getting kids back

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There are late-breaking developments in our Project PA story we first brought you last week. Joshua Fromel is one of the thousands of vict...
Friday, July 19, 2019

Pay Your Lunch Money or Face Foster Care?

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Parents in an area school district call a collection letter a bit heavy-handed. About 1,000 students in the Wyoming Valley West School distr...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Pennsylvania missionary arrested for allegedly abusing children at an orphanage in Kenya

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A Pennsylvania man has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing children at an orphanage he founded in Kenya, federal officials said....
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Mandated reporter charged for allegedly failing to report abuse

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A Children and Youth Services worker is facing charges after police say she failed to report the suspected abuse of a 6-year-old. Barbar...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Grandmother Saves Children From Alleged Abuse, Social Workers Blame Her Instead

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In was on Oct. 13 that Yolanda Bryant, 44, started to receive text messages from a family friend’s phone. It was her 10-year-old grandson. A...
Friday, June 14, 2019

Grace Packer’s killer says jury’s hesitation should get him off death row

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Jurors deciding Jacob Sullivan’s fate for the rape and murder of 14-year-old Grace Packer appeared to struggle with their decision, ...
Thursday, June 06, 2019

Parents’ Nightmare: Social Worker’s ‘Feelings’ Contribute to Child Abuse Allegations

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It’s one of the last things a parent wants to encounter—a social worker at the door with allegations of child abuse. What may come as a surp...
Tuesday, May 21, 2019

"There IS something wrong with #DHS.

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"There IS something wrong with #DHS. (#CPS/#DCFS). My biggest problem with DHS is that DHS tells us that there is nothing wrong with ...
Friday, May 03, 2019

Ethan Okula’s foster mother was sentenced in his tragic death. So many more are to blame

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The agencies contracting with DHS falsified a record and mishandled his medical care. More >>  Ethan Okula’s foster mother was s...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Unredacted report: Even after Sara Packer admitted to three-way sex with older foster daughter, Grace was returned to her

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Of all the missed opportunities before 14-year-old Grace Packer was horrifically murdered, one has long stood at the center of scrutiny...
Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Report: Caseworkers missed ‘red flags’ before Grace Packer’s brutal rape and murder

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Child welfare agencies in Pennsylvania missed a series of “red flags” in the case of teenager Grace Packer, who endured years of abuse befor...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

'Evil attracts evil': Judge gives mom life in murder of adopted teen daughter

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A woman who plotted the rape, torture and murder of her own teenage daughter pleaded guilty on Friday and was sentenced to life in pr...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Foster Care Worker Pleads Guilty to Child Endangerment

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A foster care worker in Bradford County has pleaded guilty to child endangerment. Tabitha Dunn of Monroeton was charged in December after ...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Man gets death for teen's rape, murder, dismemberment

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A man who killed and dismembered his girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter as part of a rape-murder fantasy he shared with the teenager'...