INVESTIGATION: WAS BABY UNJUSTLY TAKEN FROM PARENTS?

A Berks County couple accused of child abuse claims their 3-month-old should have never been taken from their arms.

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Legislature OKs bill cutting child abuse hotline reports

The Arizona Legislature has sent Gov. Doug Ducey a bill expected to cut the number of child abuse hotline calls that require full investigations. Opponents say not investigating hotline calls is what led to the overhaul of the state child welfare office just two years ago.

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Hillary's Appeal To The Family Rights Community

Hillary Clinton makes her case to the Family Rights community about how she helped to destroy thousands of families by providing generous adoption bonuses and subsidies to the states for adopting kids out instead of giving them back to their families.

County panel erred in blocking firing of social worker involved in child torture case, judge rules

A Los Angeles County judge ruled Thursday that the county’s disciplinary appeals board made a series of errors in its decision to reinstate one of the supervising social workers who failed to remove 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez from his home before he was tortured and killed.


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Homemade bomb explodes at Escondido school for foster kids, officials say; teen arrested

San Diego County sheriff’s deputies have detained a teenage boy who allegedly detonated a plastic bottle bomb on a school campus in Escondido on Thursday morning, officials said.

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Social worker arrested on drug charges

Karen L. Echols

A Frankfort social worker and her husband were arrested Wednesday afternoon on drug trafficking charges after a search warrant was executed at their residence.

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Group home worker accused of sexual battery on foster care child

Deputies arrested a group home worker Thursday on accusations of sexual battery on a 15-year-old girl.

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Hull social worker Claire Runkee struck off after affair with teenage boy exposed on Facebook

A SOCIAL worker paid to protect children in Hull has been struck off for embarking on a "reckless" sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy.

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Suspected sexual abuse within foster family child sent to after he was allegedly raped by his father

There was widespread suspected sexual abuse within the foster family a child was sent to after he was allegedly raped by his father and forced to have sex with his mother.

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Indiana Installs 'Safe Haven Baby Boxes' for Abandoned Newborns

Indiana has installed two "baby boxes" where mothers can anonymously drop off unwanted newborns as an extension of the state's safe haven law.

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Owner of company that installs security cameras charged with making child pornography

Larry Drommerhausen

The owner of a Newport News business that installs security cameras was arrested this week on charges he used a hidden camera to make child pornography.

Larry Drommerhausen, who also has served as a foster parent for several years, waived a preliminary hearing and detention hearing Thursday in U.S. District Court in Norfolk. A federal grand jury is expected to review the matter this month.

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DCF workers feel 'defeated' and 'overwhelmed' according to new report

Note: The poor things.

A new report from the Department of Children and Families released Thursday afternoon shows an alarming number of its employees are unhappy.

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Senate Approves Bill Asking DCF To Keep Siblings Together

The Massachusetts Senate has advanced legislation that calls for keeping siblings together after they are placed in the custody of the state’s child welfare agency.

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Youth's injuries prompt B.C. children's watchdog to call for 'secure care' law

British Columbia's representative for children and youth is calling on the province to urgently consider a law allowing youth to be involuntarily placed in a facility for their own short-term safety.

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The State Foster Care System Has a License to Be Terrible at Licensing

On February 23, 2016, an inspector for the Department of Family and Protective Services discovered how the staff of a Children's Hope foster care facility in Levelland disciplined the kids in their care: they hit them.

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• Commentary: Many flaws plague child protection agencies, safety laws

MURDERED BOY'S FATHER SETTLES WITH FRESNO COUNTY IN CPS LAWSUIT

The Fresno father who sued the county after his son's death has now settled the case.

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• Fresno County settles Seth Ireland case for $1.35 million

Jerry Sandusky gets appeal hearing on child sexual abuse conviction

A Pennsylvania judge on Thursday gave Jerry Sandusky a hearing later this month to prove his claims that prosecutors lied, withheld evidence and leaked secret grand jury information to find additional victims.

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• Was Joe Paterno told of a Jerry Sandusky child-abuse incident in 1976?

The Massachusetts Senate wants the state's child welfare agency to make sure siblings are kept together after they're removed from their biological parents

The Massachusetts Senate has advanced legislation that calls for keeping siblings together after they are placed in the custody of the state's child welfare agency.

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Child claims sexual abuse happened during supervised visit at CPS

Investigators arrested a man accused of sexually abusing a child over the course of several years.

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Note: Why wouldn't the person supervising the visit be making such a claim?

New grandparent visitation bill passes in Alabama Legislature

The Alabama Legislature on Wednesday passed a new bill that would give some grandparents the right to see their grandchildren, about five years after a similar law was deemed unconstitutional.

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Former foster parent pleads guilty to rape

The woman charged with having sex with her 16-year-old foster chid entered a guilty plea on Tuesday.

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Kingston man found with missing wards of the state

A man who was found with two missing female wards of the state at his home in downtown Kingston is to be sentenced in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on May 30.

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Mississippi foster care system takeover deadline approaching

The director of Family and Children Services is fighting to keep a judge from handing Mississippi's foster care system over to the federal government.

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CPS under scrutiny as Blanco baby abuse case raises questions

A one-year-old baby girl is on life support in a San Antonio hospital after she was reported unresponsive by her mother in Blanco Tuesday night. The baby's injuries are life-threatening and if the child dies, investigators plan to file capital murder charges.

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Schools destroyed child abuse reports, lawsuit claims

A 13-year-old boy who was molested by a Palm Springs Unified special education aide has filed a lawsuit accusing the school district of “turning a blind eye” to the sexual abuse, then destroying evidence in an effort to cover up the fact that at least some of the abuse occurred on school property.

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