Police say teen again flees from Clintonville foster home

A Farrell teenager who fled from his Clintonville foster home and was returned there has once again fled, Franklin state police said.


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Kids found safe after running away from treatment center

Five young children who ran away from a treatment center Tuesday morning were found safe several hours later, police said.

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Police search for 3 missing foster children

The Warren County Sheriff's Office is searching for three missing foster children. Through investigations, police determined that Amber Smith, 17, Jasmine Davis, 15, and Jasmine's baby Mya Davis, 1, ran away from their home at 212 Countrywood Place on foot.

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Judge orders Texas CPS chief to appear in court over runaway

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge has ordered the leader of Texas’ Child Protective Services to appear in court to explain why the agency can’t keep a 14-year-old girl from repeatedly running away from foster care.

The Austin American-Statesman reports state District Judge Paul Rotenberry directed Department of Family and Protective Services Commissioner Hank Whitman, who runs CPS, to appear in Rotenberry’s Abilene courtroom Wednesday. The still-missing teen has run away from foster care five times since April.

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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.

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Group home runaway problem continues

Calls for police to help find runaways from group homes in the city continue at a high rate, keeping officers from other duties in the city, police said.

Three group homes in Haverhill called police 62 times for assistance with runaway residents from April 1 to May 3, a rate of almost two calls per day, according to statistics provided by police.

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Mother worried after daughter runs away from CPS shelter

Dayna McDermott-Durflinger is a mother with a broken heart, searching for her missing daughter, Skye-Lynn McDermott, 12.

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A third of Texas foster care runaways remain missing: CPS

A grim reality is adding to the ongoing shortage of foster homes in Texas. State lawmakers are now hearing a third of the children who ran away from foster care this year have not been found — some as young as 11.

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Runaway teen in foster care ‘wrongly’ denied her own solicitor

A teenage girl taken into foster care should have been allowed to continue instructing her own solicitor, the High Court has declared.

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Volusia County man accused of sexually abusing runaway foster care girls

A 67-year-old Volusia County man is accused in several cases involving abuse and sex with underage girls who escaped from foster care.

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Child in NT government care missing for three weeks; family not told she ran away

The 11-year-old girl who was arrested and handcuffed by police in front of shocked classmates at her Northern Territory primary school last year has been missing for at least three weeks.

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Group of juveniles walk away from group home; one jumps in river to evade police

Three juveniles who fled from what authorities described as a group home and halfway house in Beaver County were taken into custody Wednesday by Duquesne Police. Their apprehension followed an alleged chase down a hillside and along the edge of the Monongehela River wherein one of the juveniles jumped into the river in an attempt to escape.

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Teen's temporary disappearance from group home raised fears of F1 sex trade

A teenage girl who fled a youth centre in Laval on Friday night has been located.

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Teen runaway indicted on murder charge in killing of college student from Oregon

A 17-year-old runaway from Texas’ foster care system has been indicted on a capital murder charge in the death of a University of Texas freshman who disappeared as she walked toward her dorm in April.

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4 young runaways found sneaking back into Florida facility

Four girls who apparently ran away from a facility for foster children near Tampa were found safe as they tried to sneak back onto the same property, authorities said Friday.

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Authorities locate four runaway girls from Brandon foster facility

Law enforcement agencies said Friday evening that they had located four — ages 4 to 13 — who were discovered missing from a private foster facility early that morning.

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• A $5,000 reward is being offered for information about the whereabouts of four girls who apparently ran away from a facility for foster children near Tampa.

Group home runaway problem persists

Enough is enough.

So say city councilors who are concerned about the amount of time police spend responding to runaways from group homes in the city.

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Runaway boy and girl, both 12, returned to Pasadena group home

A boy and girl who ran away from a group home in Pasadena returned home safely, police reported today.

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Missing Plantation Teen Found, Escapes DCF Custody: Police

A South Florida teen whose father was arrested after the teen went missing in December was found in Vero Beach but escaped after he was placed in the custody of the Department of Children and Families, police said.

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Columbia Police Seek Assistance Locating Foster Home Runaway

Police are asking for the public's assistance locating 17-year-old Breanna Kirk.

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