Cops force girl, 5, to undergo sex exam against her will, parents say

A Mountain View family has filed a $1 million claim against the city after a paramedic forcibly undressed their 5-year-old daughter while three police officers and a Santa Clara County social worker were at their house for what they say was a sexual abuse investigation, which turned out to be unfounded.

Channel 7 reported Thursday (June 6) that Madeleine Lother had been injured in January after sliding down a rope at the indoor trampoline park Sky High Sports and suffered a small amount of vaginal bleeding.

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VIRGINIA TEEN WAS DETAINED AND PROSECUTED FOR SAYING ‘OINK OINK’ TO COP

In May 2016, James (not his real name), then 17, was sitting outside a mall in Arlington, Virginia, when police officers approached him. They picked him up, slammed him to the ground, dragged him aggressively to their car, and brought him to the police station. All those details are documented by a bystander’s cellphone.

But what preceded it is a matter of debate. James remembers sitting on the sidewalk, smoking a cigarette, and saying “oink oink” to a police officer, but the police had a different version of events. They claimed James provoked violence, refused to give his name, and resisted arrest.

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Handcuffing of 9-year-old prompts probe of police practices

Video of a Washington, D.C., police officer chasing and handcuffing a 9-year-old boy on Monday has prompted a review of police practices.

Attorney General Karl A. Racine told news outlets Wednesday about the review into how the department deals with children. He says those practices will then be compared to other departments. The child wasn't charged with a crime and was released into his mother's custody.

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Illinois dad arrested for breaking traffic laws while rushing daughter to hospital; nurses bond him out

A group of nurses bonded an Illinois father out of jail after he broke several traffic laws while rushing his daughter to the hospital, KTVI reports.

Darius Hinkle said the nurses who helped him work at Touchette Regional Hospital in Centreville.

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Police officers who sabotaged child abuse probes guilty of misconduct

Detective constables Sharon Patterson, 49, and Lee Pollard, 47, forged documents, concealed evidence and lied about investigations out of laziness and “cynical disdain” for victims, the Old Bailey heard.

Patterson was even accused of ditching work to get a manicure and have a four-hour-long lunch at a Chinese restaurant with her married lover Pollard.

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ACLU says schools need more mental health professionals, not police

Public schools need more mental health professionals and fewer police, according to a recently released report by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The report found that nearly one-third of public school students, more than 14 million, are enrolled in schools with police but without a counselor, nurse, psychologist or social worker. The shift in resources comes as schools reassess their security measures in the wake of repeated school shootings and as local, state and federal governments make more money available to fund officers on campuses.

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Washington handles runaway foster kids with handcuffs, shackles and jail. Is there a better way?

"I've done nothing wrong," said a 14-year-old after she landed in jail for the fourth time. Many agree, and are trying to stop Washington state from arresting runaway foster kids. The head of the agency responsible says he wants to, but faces a "moral conundrum."

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Arrested CCPD officer allegedly impersonated a CPS caseworker

According to a felony case indictment obtained by 3News, a Corpus Christi Police Department officer who was arrested Thursday allegedly posed as a Child Protective Services case worker in order to perform a welfare check on a child.

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Fired Tacoma cops accused of telling woman to beat 9-year-old plead not guilty to assault

Two fired Tacoma police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to charges they told a Tacoma woman to beat her 9-year-old grandson with a belt.

Damion Birge and Jesse Jahner are both charged with third-degree child assault, coercion and official misconduct in Pierce County Superior Court.

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Police officer jailed for attempting sexual relationship with teen in foster care

A policeman has been sentenced to 10 months' jail for attempting to have a sexual relationship with a teenager who was a ward of the state and who had sought his help.

Key points:
Gopinath met the girl when she asked him for a ride home from the police station
He sent 146 messages to the girl over the course of a month
After the girl told another officer about Gopinath's behaviour, he claimed she was trying to blackmail him

Vikram Gopinath, 29, from Mildura, pleaded guilty to attempting to procure a child of 16 or 17 for sex and one charge of misconduct in public office.

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Kansas City police discipline 17 officers from troubled unit handling child abuse, neglect cases

Seventeen Kansas City police officers who formerly worked in a unit that failed to properly investigate crimes against children have been disciplined, with seven of the officers no longer working in the department, Police Chief Rick Smith announced Tuesday.

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ACLU report questions police presence in schools, says programs fuel ‘school to prison’ pipeline

In one case, police were called over elementary school-age brothers yelling and cursing at each other.

In another, a school employee referred a student for stealing a candy bar from her desk.

A third involved a middle school student caught writing on her desk.

The ACLU of Nebraska cited these and other cases in a new report questioning how school police programs operate in Nebraska. The report, released Thursday, says the programs fuel a “school to prison” pipeline and disproportionately affect students of color and students with disabilities.

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Mother in viral video where New York police yank toddler from her arms speaks out

A mother who had her toddler yanked from her arms by New York police in a widely seen video said in an interview published Sunday that she went into "defense mode."

"In my head, I told myself they're not going to let me leave," Jazmine Headley told The New York Times. "I was so afraid. I was combative with my thoughts."

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9-Year-Old Girl Calls 911 on Parents for Making Her Clean Her Room

As kids, most of us wanted to call the police on our parents for putting us in time out or not taking us to Chuck E. Cheese's whenever we wanted. Buzz60's Mercer Morrison has the story.

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Police yank baby from Black mother at SNAP office

Brooklyn police officers tried to rip a one-year-old baby away from his mother while she waited at a public assistance office, a video uploaded to Facebook on Friday shows. Jazmine Headley had been sitting on the floor of the crowded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program office for hours before an argument between her and a security guard prompted someone to call the police.

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'Troubling' Video Shows Cops Ripping Baby Out of Mom's Arms

A disturbing video shows a group of police officers trying to pull a 1-year-old child from the arms of his mother, who is lying on the floor of a social services office in Brooklyn.

The NYPD called the video "troubling" and said the encounter was under review.

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Home-Schooling Parent In Worcester Was Arrested In Her Home. Now She's Suing

A lawsuit filed last week alleges that the Worcester School Committee and the city's superintendent, as well as the state Department of Children and Families, violated the constitutional rights of a woman and a son she was home schooling.

The lawsuit alleges that police knocked on Josilyn Goodall's door on March 30, saying her son had missed so much school that they were there to confirm the 8-year-old boy — called "A.S." in the suit — was "living and breathing."

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Lawsuit: NYPD forced woman to give birth in handcuffs

A lawsuit is claiming the New York Police Department forced a woman to give birth while shackled in handcuffs.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday, the woman she says she went into labor in February in a police holding cell in the Bronx. She says police took her to Montefiore Medical Center where they handcuffed her wrists to the bed and shackled her ankles.

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• Police Force Bronx Woman to Give Birth While Shackled, Lawsuit Says

She Ran Away From Foster Care. She Ended Up in Handcuffs and Leg Irons.

Nevayah still remembers the feel of the handcuffs. They were foreign to her; she had never been in trouble.

A latecomer to New York City’s foster care system, Nevayah had been signed over to the Administration for Children’s Services when she was 16. Rather than enter a group home, she told her caseworker she would prefer to live with her mother in Ohio. Eager to start school, she bought a bus ticket, made it to Cleveland and phoned the agency to let them know that she was safe.

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Grandmother claims children were unjustly removed, and deputies used excessive force

A local grandmother is making some serious allegations against a group of Bexar County Sheriff's deputies, and Child Protective Services.

Andria Williams says CPS workers removed her grand children without investigating claims of child abuse, and deputies used excessive force.

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