Premature Migrant Baby Found in Border Patrol Facility in Texas

The teenage girl with pigtail braids was hunched over in a wheelchair and holding a bunched sweatshirt when an immigrant advocate met her at a crowded Border Patrol facility in Texas.

She opened the sweatshirt and the advocate gasped. It was a tiny baby, born premature and held in detention instead of where the advocate believes the baby should have been — at a hospital neonatal unit.

More >> Premature Migrant Baby Found in Border Patrol Facility in Texas

• Teen Mom And Prematurely Born Baby Neglected At Border Patrol Facility For 7 Days

Baby forcibly removed from breastfeeding mother by gardaí and social workers

A baby girl was just a day old when she was forcibly removed from her breastfeeding mother at a maternity hospital by gardaí and social workers on foot of an emergency District Court order, the High Court has heard.

The circumstances of the removal caused “huge trauma” to the mother, baby and the professionals involved, Pól Ó Murchú, solicitor for the mother, said in a sworn statement.

More >> Baby forcibly removed from breastfeeding mother by gardaí and social workers

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

Here are today's headlines.  

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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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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

Audit: UMass late in filing reports of drug-exposed babies

A state audit released Thursday faulted UMass Memorial Medical Center for repeatedly failing to adhere to a law requiring it to file written reports with the Department of Children and Families within 48 hours of delivering drug-exposed babies.

More >> Audit: UMass late in filing reports of drug-exposed babies

DYCF introduces new ‘Safe and Secure Baby Court’

A new initiative was put in place at the Rhode Island Family Court Monday.

More >> DYCF introduces new ‘Safe and Secure Baby Court’

Parents Are Suing 1 Hospital After It Had a Stranger Breastfeed the Wrong Baby

After Tammy Van Dyke's baby had to go through a year of HIV testing because of an easily preventable mistake, this mother of two is suing.

More >> Parents Are Suing 1 Hospital After It Had a Stranger Breastfeed the Wrong Baby

Egypt Requires Breast Exam for Subsidized Formula

Heated debate has broken out in Egypt over a new regulation requiring mothers to undergo a breast examination in order to qualify for subsidized infant formula.

More >> Egypt Requires Breast Exam for Subsidized Formula

Diaper Subsidy Vetoed By California Gov. Brown

California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a measure Sunday that would have subsidized diapers for needy families on government assistance. Brown said the measure represented an end run around the budget process.

More >> Diaper Subsidy Vetoed By California Gov. Brown

Mum systematically raped by dad facing heartbreaking social services battle over unborn daughter

A small girl repeatedly raped by her dad and older brother in one of Merseyside’s most shocking-ever abuse cases faces having her own FIFTH child taken from her by social workers immediately after she is born.

More >> Mum systematically raped by dad facing heartbreaking social services battle over unborn daughter

Woman Undergoes First Uterus Transplant In US; When Parenting A Biological Child Is The Only Option

Cleveland Clinic performed the nation’s first uterus transplant Feb. 24 during a nine-hour surgery on a 26-year-old woman with uterine factor infertility (UFI). The patient is reported to be in stable condition following the experimental procedure, which made use of a womb from a deceased organ donor. Around 5 percent of women worldwide have UFI, an irreversible condition most often caused by birth defects or medical treatments requiring removal of the womb.

More >> Woman Undergoes First Uterus Transplant In US; When Parenting A Biological Child Is The Only Option

Mothers should be allowed to keep babies in prison, according to former Adelaide inmate

Ms Fisk, chairperson of the Seeds of Affinity support group for women with prison experiences, was first jailed at the age of 16.

More >> Mothers should be allowed to keep babies in prison, according to former Adelaide inmate

A new epidemic of hype won’t help ‘drug-dependent’ infants

A new epidemic of hype won’t help ‘drug-dependent’ infants

Every few years we are told about a new “drug plague” in which the drug use of pregnant women supposedly dooms their children – unless, of course, we take the children away. The media said it about crack, and they were wrong. They said it about methamphetamines and they were wrong. Now there’s a new epidemic of hype around pregnant women who use drugs both legal and illegal, from heroin to prescription painkillers. Those stories are wrong, too.

Mother has SIXTEEN babies taken away from her: Shocking case revealed as number of newborns removed at birth and put into care soars by 150% in five years

Mother has SIXTEEN babies taken away from her: Shocking case revealed as number of newborns removed at birth and put into care soars by 150% in five years   

One mother has had 16 babies taken into care, a shocking report into the scale of newborns removed from their parents reveals today.

The number of babies taken away from mothers has soared by 150 per cent in just five years, with a third removed from women in their teens.

• 'Huge rise' in newborn babies subject to care proceedings

Couple trying to get back custody of baby after mom used form of medical marijuana

Couple trying to get back custody of baby after mom used form of medical marijuana

A local mom thought she had made the best decision for her baby while in utero by choosing medicinal marijuana to treat extreme sickness and pain, but now she and her husband have lost custody of the infant.

How some Alabama hospitals quietly drug test new mothers — without their consent

How some Alabama hospitals quietly drug test new mothers — without their consent

In Alabama, a positive drug test can have dire repercussions for pregnant women and new mothers. Their newborns can be taken from them. They can lose custody of their other children. They can face lengthy sentences in the most notorious women’s prison in the United States and thousands of dollars in fees and fines.

False Positive Drug Tests and CPS

False Positive Drug Tests and CPS

When an expectant mother arrives at a hospital, ready to deliver her baby into the waiting arms of medical staff, one of the many processes she is required to undergo is blood work. For many mothers, this isn’t even something they’re aware of. Samples are drawn and whisked away for analysis without a word. And for a woman in labor, it’s just one more needle poke, one more test, one more item on a laundry list of things she is ignoring right now. Her attention is elsewhere. On the baby she is delivering.

Woman impersonates social worker, kills mother, kidnaps 3-month-old baby

Woman impersonates social worker, kills mother, kidnaps 3-month-old baby

A 36-year-old Indiana woman, has been arrested and charged after she allegedly pretended to be working with the Department of Social Services on call so that she can kidnap a three-week old baby and killing the baby's mother, the Texas police reports.

UPDATE: Missing 15-year-old Tacoma mother and baby found safe in Seattle

UPDATE: Missing 15-year-old Tacoma mother and baby found safe in Seattle

A 15-year-old girl who ran away from foster care with her 5-month-old baby after learning they would be separated and triggered an ‘endangered persons’ alert were found safe in Seattle at her boyfriend’s home, Tacoma police said Wednesday night.

Indiana may install 'baby boxes' for those giving up newborns

Indiana may install 'baby boxes' for those giving up newborns

On the outside, the metal box looks like an oversized bread container. But what's inside could save an abandoned newborn's life.

Bringing up baby behind bars: Poignant photos of inmates who give birth in prison - and the children who live with them IN JAIL

Bringing up baby behind bars: Poignant photos of inmates who give birth in prison - and the children who live with them IN JAIL

A photographer has documented the struggles of California women who give birth while in jail and others who are bringing up their children in prison.