No Foster Kids 4 U - LK Report for 9/14/17

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The Pennsylvania auditor general says the state’s child welfare system is broken.

Eugene DePasquale released a special report Thursday that took aim at the system by the numbers.

“What I found for my ‘State of the Child’ special report is appalling,” DePasquale said. “I’m talking about wholesale system breakdowns that actually prevent (Children and Youth Services) caseworkers from protecting our children from abuse and neglect.”

More >> Auditor general calls ‘State of the Child’ in Pennsylvania ‘appalling’

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The state DCS rejected her after she admitted she was a registered caregiver under the state's medical-marijuana law and kept a product in her home that contained cannabidol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound that's found in cannabis.

Yet the product, along with all other forms of cannabis, is perfectly legal for qualified users and caregivers under the state's voter-approved, 2010 medical-marijuana law.

More >> Arizona DCS to Medical-Marijuana Patients: We Don't Want You as a Foster Parent

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A south Arkansas mother whose 3-year-old drowned in a washing machine should not have had to surrender her newborn to the state months after an accident based on her "mindset," the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

More >> Arkansas judges overturn neglect case involving mother whose 3-year-old drowned in washing machine

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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee city planners are pushing forward with an idea to use tiny homes to help teens aging out of foster care.

More >> Milwaukee advances tiny house plan for foster care teenagers

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Hoping to combat the high cost of incarceration and break the cycle of children following their parents to prison, some cities have created programs to keep women out of jail and with their children.

More >> Breaking The Cycle Of Incarceration By Keeping Mothers And Children Together

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – When kids have no place to go, families across the state open up their homes. However, as KRQE News discovered on Special Assignment, the need outweighs what’s actually available.

More >> Growing number of New Mexico foster families house more than six kids

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It looks like Teen Mom 2 star Jenelle Evans just can’t escape the custody battles these days. Since it was alleged that the reality star and her newborn daughter Ensley tested positive for marijuana, a new report has surfaced saying that Jenelle’s mother Barbara Evans has banned her daughter from seeing Jace, whom she has custody of.

More >> Barbara Evans Is Banning Jenelle Evans From Seeing Jace Following CPS Investigation\

Note: Usually it would be CPS that makes that decision.  In this case, grandma is playing God.

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The foster brother who allegedly had a sexual relationship with slain Logan schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer is set to be sentenced at a Queensland court.

Trent Thorburn, 20, is due to face the Beenleigh District Court on Thursday on charges of perjury, attempting to pervert the course of justice and incest.

More >> Tiah's foster brother to be sentenced

• Tiahleigh's foster brother sentenced
• Tiahleigh Palmer: foster brother sentenced to four years, including for incest

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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced his resignation Tuesday. It comes after a man purporting to be Murray's cousin stepped forward claiming Murray sexually abused him in the mid-1970s when he was a boy.

More >> Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns following new sex abuse allegation

• These are the 5 men who have accused Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of child sexual abuse
• Timeline of child sex-abuse allegations against Mayor Murray
• Bombarded by Sex Abuse Claims, Seattle Mayor Now Accused by His Own Cousin
• With Ed Murray mess behind us, time to focus on child abuse
• Ed Murray: Sex abuse claim US mayor's time in Northern Ireland 'should be probed'

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Widlene Earle has never been to Canada, but she calls the country home and holds it in high regard because of its warm welcomes, cold snow and its eternal connection to Justin Bieber.

More >> Haitian daughter at risk as adoption process drags on, Newfoundland dad says

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(NEWSER) – A Maryland couple whose YouTube prank videos garnered them accusations of child abuse were sentenced to five years probation on child neglect charges Monday, BuzzFeed reports. Michael and Heather Martin entered a plea to avoid jail time, admitting the state had enough to convict them without actually admitting guilt. The Martins' YouTube channel, DaddyOFive, featured hundreds of videos of them "pranking" their five children, according to the Frederick News-Post. Prosecutors singled out one video showing Heather screaming obscenities at a crying 10-year-old Cody—their youngest child—after falsely accusing him of pouring ink on the carpet and another video where Cody is falsely told he is no longer going to live with them.

More >> Parents Sentenced for Child Neglect Over YouTube Videos

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In February 2015, Rebecca Wanosik took her then nine-week-old daughter Zeydn to the pediatrician. She was looking for answers for Zeydn’s seemingly inexplicable right arm pain. Instead, that one visit would end up turning her life upside down.

More >> MOM FIGHTS BACK AFTER BABY’S RARE GENETIC CONDITION WAS MISTAKEN FOR CHILD ABUSE
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Prosecutors said there was no evidence of crimes being committed at an orphanage where at least 400 children are thought to have been buried in an unmarked mass grave.

More >> 'No crime' over orphanage mass grave
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A growing number of parents say their children have been unfairly taken from them and adopted, lawyers and campaigners said today.

There are more than 100 cases where children have been adopted without sufficient evidence they are at risk from their birth parents, according to the BBC.

More >> Outcry from social workers over forced adoptions

Hillary Ain't Running Again!!! - LK Report for 9/11/17

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(Grand Marais, MN) A former Cook County Health and Human Services Director will no longer have custody, or be able to visit his children, after he was charged with child abuse. Television station K-B-J-R reports that 40-year-old Josh Beck made his first appearance in court today (Monday) at the Cook County Courthouse. A judge decided to give custody to the children's grandmother, who lives in Indiana.

More >> Former Cook County HHS Dir. Loses Custody Of Children Amid Child Abuse Charges

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CHILDREN WHO HAVE been sexually abused are being made to wait five years before their court cases are completed.

More >> Abused children being made wait five years before court case over

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For the past 27 years, Zo and Rusty Tichenor have taken in more than 100 foster children.

From the get-go, the Owensboro couple agreed to accept girls only who were 12 and older.

More >> Aging out: 18-year-old foster children confront life-changing decision
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Over 85% of UK adults surveyed on behalf of Action for Children showed little or no interest in fostering, the charity found.

Some 4,262 adults in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales were surveyed by YouGov in July 2017.

More >> More than 85% of adults would not foster a child, charity's survey finds
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Finally I get to post some good news.

The former secretary of state and author of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 says she will not pursue the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

More >> Hillary Clinton: ‘I am done with being a candidate’

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

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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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Watch the video above for the full report from The Nation.

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

No going outside alone til you're 10 - LK Report for 9/7/17

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More >> Why A Mom Says She Had To Put Teen Into The Foster Care System
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The Queensland Government has publicly released three reports into the state's troubled child protection system, months after receiving them.

More >> Queensland's foster care system under reform

• Tougher checks for foster carers as Qld child safety reports released
• Tia Palmer’s tragic death leads to changes to child safety systems in Queensland

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Texas Standard spoke with Kaysie Taccetta of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services about the new "community-based model" for foster care in the state. One service provider in North Texas is already working within the model. The Standard paid the group a visit. Listen to that part of the story below.

More >> New Texas Law Will Create A More Private Foster Care System
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‘We can do a lot more, I think, but we need government to come on board to help us,’ said Kwanlin Dün Chief Doris Bill, at a Tuesday news conference with Council of Yukon First Nations Grand Chief Peter Johnston. (Mike Rudyk/CBC) First Nations leaders in Yukon say the territorial government needs to do more to reduce the number of Indigenous people behind bars.

More >> JUSTICE, CHILD WELFARE SYSTEMS ‘FAILING OUR PEOPLE’, SAY YUKON FIRST NATIONS
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Yet another bizarre, fact-free, and infuriating ruling has been handed down by Canada's Ministry of Children and Family Development.

For the past two years, Adrian Crook has been teaching his kids (ages 7, 8, 9, 11) how to ride the bus to school each day, a 45-minute trip. It went great, until earlier this year. The kids were friends with the bus drivers, familiar and confident with their route, and even got an emailed compliment from a stranger who was impressed by their competency.

More >> Father told kids can't ride bus to school or go outside alone until age 10
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WICHITA, Kan. — A boy whose body was found encased in concrete in a Wichita rental house Saturday was the grandson of a Kansas gubernatorial candidate and former Wichita mayor.

More >> Boy found dead in concrete in Kansas house was grandson of former Wichita mayor
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South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill says he makes no apologies for intrusive testing of potential child protection workers.

More >> SA child protection work applicants face intrusive sex-related questions
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LK Report For 9/6/17 - Killing Canadian Foster Kids

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The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday on whether the state can determine that a mother is unfit because a court has previously terminated her right to parent other children.

More >> Missouri Supreme Court to consider how losing parental rights in the past should impact the future

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At least Hillary didn't win.
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Larimer County is asking the Colorado Department of Human Services to reconsider how it pays counties for child welfare efforts.

More >> Larimer County to state: You're funding child welfare wrong

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The government today took control of a local council's child protection services after a damning report found youngsters at risk of "significant harm".

Ofsted inspectors found "widespread and serious failures" in children's services at Croydon, south London.

Ofsted blamed poor practice, weak management and a high staff turnover for a series of failings.

More >> Croydon Council's child protection services put under government control over 'serious failures'

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There is nothing so heinous as a government failing to support its most vulnerable citizens: young children. Yet due to government neglect and chronic underfunding of critical social services, the number of deaths and critical injuries of children in foster care in Canada has steadily risen in recent years.

More >> Deaths of children in government care skyrocket in Canada

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The heartbroken biological father of a toddler murdered by her mother who stamped on her chest until her heart ripped blames social services for not saving his 'beautiful' daughter.

More >> 'I'll always remember her as the perfect little girl': Birth father of toddler who was stamped to death by her mother blames social services for not saving her

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MADISON (WKOW) -- A Madison woman who admitted slamming a foster child's head against a bathroom floor nearly a half dozen times before the 3-year old boy became unresponsive was sentenced to twelve months in jail Tuesday as part of an eight year probation sentence.

More >> Woman sentenced in foster child case
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The moment Greg regained custody of his 16-year-old daughter last summer, he immediately asked a social worker: "Where is she?"

That's when he learned she was missing — again — from the Nova Scotia group home where she'd been living. No one had seen her for weeks.

More >> The staggering number of children reported missing from Nova Scotia group homes
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SANTA FE – A Valencia County foster parent who says she was beaten by her ward has sued the state claiming she was not given enough information before she agreed to take in the 17-year-old.

More >> Foster parent sues state over beating by ward

LK Report for 9/4/17 - CPS Wants Your Kids

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The Home Stretch campaign wants young people to have the option to stay in foster homes until they turn 21 and the State Government is backing extended support.

For Sarah Short, 22, leaving foster care was made easy because of the help of her caseworker and foster carers.

More >> Action needed to stop over-18s leaving foster care to end up homeless, say carers and Anglicare

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International acquisition funds invest in Norwegian child welfare as it turns to be a more profitable sector than oil industry.

More >> Private Child Welfare Service Is More Profitable Than Oil Industry in Norway

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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – A Kelseyville man who worked for many years as a teacher and more recently was a substitute teacher has been arrested in a child molestation case involving a foster child.

More >> Authorities arrest child molestation suspect; man was foster parent, substitute teacher

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Our Kids, the organization responsible for the care and safety of foster children in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, has a new leader in place with an impressive resume.

More >> New foster-care boss gets a laundry list of what needs fixing

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Oregon's child welfare agency has agreed to pay $7 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of two children who were nearly starved to death by foster parents the state approved for them.

More >> Oregon pays $7 million after preschoolers starved by foster parents
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A baby has died from head injuries while in foster care.

Skyla Giller was allegedly dropped by her foster mother and taken to hospital in an unresponsive state. The ten-month-old had emergency brain surgery before doctors decided there was no hope.

More >> Torment of mum whose baby died after being 'dropped by a foster carer': 'Absolutely devastated' birth mother says couple and social services both failed her daughter
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THE MAJORITY OF children sent to prison in Ireland in the 1960s were not offenders, instead they were imprisoned for issues relating to neglect and poverty – often common threads in their stories.

More >> Neglect and abuse of Irish children in institutions led them to set cells on fire and swallow nails
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For years, the state Department of Children and Families under Commissioner Joette Katz has worked to change the way it does business, removing fewer children from their homes and placing those it must take with relatives or other people they know.

More >> Some lawyers say child welfare system violates parents’ rights

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Barbara Granger

A woman filed two false abuse reports with the Department of Children and Families as a means to "harass" another woman and have her removed from a mutual acquaintance's home, according to Tallahassee Police.

More >> TPD: Woman made false abuse claims to 'harass' woman

Note: What a bitch, eh?
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Divorce can be brutal on children, and when it comes to custody arrangements, the common thought has been to disrupt the children’s life as little as possible by keeping them in one home. But now, a new study has examined the stresses faced by children with separated parents and how they were affected by shared physical custody. The results found that children whose parents split physical custody were less stressed than children who lived primarily with one parent.

More >> After divorce, shared custody found to be less stressful for kids
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The estate of a 15-year-old Albany girl who died from severe gastrointestinal problems while under child-welfare workers' watch filed a $9.5 million lawsuit Thursday against the state of Oregon.

More >> $9.5 million lawsuit claims death of foster child, 15, was stress-related
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LK Report for 9/1/17 - Don't text and drive with foster kids in the car!

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The family of Adrian Jones — the 7-year-old boy who suffered brutal abuse and whose remains were found in a pigsty in 2015 — has filed a lawsuit against several defendants including the Kansas Department for Children and Families.

More >> Adrian Jones family files lawsuit against DCF

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Four pending charges, including two felony charges, have been filed by the state of Minnesota against former Health and Human Services Director Josh Beck.  Beck resigned as Cook County Health and Human Services director on July 21.  One of the felony assault charges alleges a past pattern of child abuse.

More >> Felony child abuse charges made against former county Human Services Director

• Former Cook County Official Facing Multiple Allegations, Child Abuse

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SAN ANTONIO - More than 1,200 foster care children were evacuated from 24 residential centers in the hardest hit areas by Hurricane Harvey. Right now, they're in backup shelters and churches but the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services says that they are figuring out what to do next if those centers are destroyed.

More >> 1,200 foster kids displaced because of Hurricane Harvey flooding
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A 15-year-old Mesa County girl pleaded guilty this morning to murdering her foster mother earlier this year, and will spend at least the next six years in a juvenile detention facility.

More >> Teen girl pleads guilty to killing foster mother
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A breast-feeding mother is embroiled in a court battle in Maryland after an official said she must let her estranged partner give the 6-month-old boy formula while the child is visiting him.

More >> Maryland mom ordered to give breast-fed infant formula at father’s request
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Did the Fourth Estate speak truth to power when The Times this week published salacious headlines about fostering in east London? You might assume they did with the flurry of follow-up articles and MPs falling over themselves to react. But you would unfortunately be wrong.

More >> The fostering case shows the British press has a problem with reporting fairly on Muslims
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A FOSTER father accused of molesting a child had his carer accreditation approved by Child Safety three months after the abuse was said to have started.

More >> Foster father facing child abuse charge for 'massaging' boy

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Relatives of a 7-year-old boy who suffered horrific abuse before being killed by his stepmother and father and fed to pigs have filed a lawsuit alleging social service workers in Kansas and Missouri knew the boy was being tortured and could have prevented his death.

More >> Kansas boy’s relatives sue Kansas, Missouri social workers

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INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) -- The Indiana Department of Child Services confirms it has taken disciplinary action against a case worker caught on camera breaking state rules.

The disciplinary action comes after a WTHR investigation exposed photos of the DCS employee driving two children to foster care. The photos show the case worker driving on a busy highway and, at the same time, appearing to be reading, looking up contacts and sending e-mails on her cell phone. The pictures were taken last month by the kids riding in her back seat, and the children told 13 Investigates it was a nerve-wracking ride.

More >> Indiana DCS disciplines state worker for distracted driving caught on camera
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Three Administration for Children Services lawyers have been removed from supervisory roles after posting mocking messages and photos of people in Family Court, the agency said Thursday.

More >> City child welfare lawyers sidelined for mocking people in Family Court

• Facebook photos mocking courtroom attire lead to job trouble for lawyers accused of posting them

LK Report for 8/31/17 - The Orphan Fight Club and More...

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In July, YouTube channel Pear Video uploaded a short documentary featuring Enbo Fight Club in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The video showed dozens of young boys training at the MMA gym, which was founded by former police officer En Bo. The video also showed two boys cage-fighting in front of an audience.

More >> More orphans and ‘left-behind’ children removed from Enbo Fight Club

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The states of Oregon and Maryland and the cities of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., all have implemented minimum-wage hikes this summer, and one study shows a positive side effect they might not have anticipated.

More >> Study: Higher Minimum Wage Lowers Child Abuse

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FLORENCE — A Florida woman who was a foster parent in Florence for seven years was indicted Wednesday on 54 charges, including child abuse, strangulation and human trafficking, officials said.

More >> Former foster parent faces 54 charges

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A federal lawsuit claims the state is violating the rights of Michigan foster parents by imposing too many restrictions on firearms in the home.

More >> Grandpa sues over rules for guns in foster homes

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A five-year-old girl white girl who was placed with a Muslim foster family sparking a row about 'cultural appropriateness' has Muslim grandparents, it emerged today.

More >> White Christian girl at centre of fostering row has Muslim grandparents, judge reveals

• Mother of Christian girl in foster care was born to Muslim parents
• Right-wing newspapers accused of stoking anti-Muslim sentiment in foster case

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A FOSTER father accused of molesting a child had his carer accreditation approved by Child Safety three months after the abuse was said to have started.

More >> Foster father facing child abuse charge for 'massaging' boy

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“Bra tops n butt cheeks! Somebody come look at this!!” the caption read above a photo of a young woman in a pink short set that had pink sheer draping on either side as if to make a skirt.

“From the back! I took it for you!” read the caption of another photo of the same woman that was taken from behind. A grateful commenter responded, “Good work!!!!”

More >> Lawyers for Child Welfare and Legal Aid Under Scrutiny for Facebook Posts

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A North Newton couple accused of abusing three Peruvian orphans they adopted have been convicted in the case.

More >> Couple accused of beating, starving adopted children convicted of abuse

LK Report for 8/30/17 - Don't Burn Down The Group Home!

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Three-year-old Braxton Slager might have been drugged the day before he drowned in his foster family's backyard swimming pool, an inquest has heard.

More >> Toddler who drowned in a backyard pool while in foster care may have been DRUGGED the day before he died
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Supreme Court says it can’t force the state Department of Child Services to abide by caseload limits that are required by law.

More >> Indiana high court says it can’t enforce DCS caseload limits

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Emma Ketteringham of the Bronx Defenders wrote a powerful piece about poverty and parenthood in the New York Times last week.

More >> The ongoing criminalization of parenthood (and poverty) 
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Chinese prosecutors have confirmed the arrest of a young man who was photographed molesting his foster sister recently at the Nanjing South Railway Station.

More >> Man arrested for public groping of his underage foster-sister
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One of my closest friends is in a very unhappy marriage with a man she says is emotionally and verbally abusive. He has refused to seek help for his anger issues.

He has always wanted children, although my friend is lukewarm on the idea.

They now have the opportunity to adopt a 4-year-old girl, whose mother is battling mental illness and poverty.

More >> Ask Amy: A ‘monstrous,’ deceptive adoption plan turns friend away

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CINCINNATI -- A teenage boy named Gage just celebrated his second birthday in a row in the custody of Hamilton County Children’s Services.

More >> Lost boy: One teen's two-year wait in the child welfare system

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A five-year-old girl who was placed in the foster care of two Muslim households has been reunited with her family after a court ruled she could live with her grandmother.

More >> Christian girl fostered in Muslim home can rejoin family, judge rules

• ‘Flawed system’ of foster care in Britain

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DENVER (AP) — A federal appeals court panel has found that a Denver city social worker can be sued for violating the constitutional rights of a boy when she recommended that he be placed in his father's custody despite knowing that the father was a convicted sex offender.

More >> Son, abused by father, can seek damages from social worker
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A Waldorf teenager remained in custody after his arrest Monday on a charge of first-degree arson from a house fire last week in St. Mary’s, a blaze that court papers allege he started by putting a television on a stove.

More >> Waldorf teenager charged with arson at St. Mary's group home

• Another So. Md. Teen Arrested for Arson of a Group Home

LK Report for 8/29/17 - Blaming Parents First

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A Bronx mom whose young son was malnourished because the rats in their apartment kept eating their food had her kids taken away. The city then gave the foster care family $1000 a month to feed the children.

This story of government obtuseness and cruelty appeared in a recent New York Times op-ed by Emma S. Ketteringham, managing director of the family defense practice at the Bronx Defenders. As she noted, the problem, in this case, was not negligence or abuse, it was poverty.

More >> Why Child Protective Services Should Stop Blaming Parents First

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I’ve been contemplating writing on this for a while now, but I’ve held back. I work a lot on this in therapy but I’ve never written it down for everyone else to read. I’m trying to be brave and hopeful that there will be no retaliation. It is a real fear.

More >> Why Taking Care of My Own Mental Health Is Difficult as a Foster Care Caseworker

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WILKES-BARRE — A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit a domestic violence victim filed alleging Luzerne County Children and Youth Services improperly took away her children.

More >> Federal judge dismisses claim against county CYS

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This isn’t supposed to happen. Child welfare agencies are supposed to take children out of abusive situations, not put them into ones.

Arizona’s Department of Child Safety wrongly took a little girl away from her parents and placed her with a foster parent who ran a pornographic pedophile ring and committed sexual misconduct against a minor. They also placed her with a woman who burnt her over 80 percent of her body with scalding water.

More >> AZ Child Welfare Agency Takes Child From Loving Family, Places Her in Horrifically Abusive Foster Care

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Half a million children live in foster care in the US. More than 100,000 are waiting to be adopted. The good news is that attitudes toward foster children are changing. Growing numbers of people who want to adopt say they’d consider adopting a foster child, according to a survey conducted for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

More >> Your Call: What will it take to improve the foster care system?

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TAMPA — The death of a 17-month-old toddler who was weeks away from a possible adoption led to a rash of arrests and questions about the foster care system.

More >> Eight months after child's death, fate of foster mom still hangs in the balance

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FORT COLLINS, Colo (CBS4) – CBS4 is examining the issues around “Aging Out”, the point when a teenager leaves the foster care system in Colorado.

More >> Foster Parent: ‘The Outcomes I Have Seen Haven’t Been Great’

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The children’s rights watchdog is to investigate reports that a five-year-old Christian girl was left distressed after being placed in foster care in two Muslim households in east London.

More >> Council to be questioned after placing Christian girl with Muslim foster carers

• The Tower Hamlets foster child story sums up a rotten borough
• Council to be questioned after placing Christian girl with Muslim foster carers
• An obsession with diversity should NEVER trump a child's right to a happy foster home, writes DR TAJ HARGEY
• Family of Christian girl put in foster care with Muslim family begged to let her stay with grandmother

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A damning internal report by the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) has found it misused its power when it placed a toddler in temporary foster care, where he drowned in an unauthorized backyard pool in 2014.

More >> Braxton Slager: FACS misused power to place toddler in overcrowded foster care, report finds

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More and more children, under the age of 6, are currently taking psychiatric drugs. And doctors don’t care how harmful the side-effects are to so many of these beautiful young minds. They don’t care that drugging up a young child can cause serious brain-damage and even death. They don’t care that most of these young children will grow up on drugs, which will cause everything from little to no impulse control and violent behavior to brain tumors.

More >> More Than A Million Children Under The Age Of 6 Are On Psychiatric Drugs In America

LK Report for 8/28/17 - Child Trafficking by Social Worker

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FRANKLIN TWP. -- Police are asking for the public's help in locating a teen runaway.

More >> Help sought in locating teen who ran away from group home

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My social media news feed contained two stories this week that were sad in different ways. In the first story, a woman had her kids taken away by the Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) because when the toddler was screaming about being in time-out, someone overheard the screams and reported abuse. She eventually got her children back, but not for several months, during which her newborn almost died from mistreatment. There was never any evidence of abuse or neglect by the children’s parents.

More >> Why the state hurts parents and kids — and how to make it stop

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A white Christian child was taken from her family and forced to live with a niqab-wearing foster carer in a home where she was allegedly encouraged to learn Arabic.

More >> Christian child forced into Muslim foster care

• Christian girl has 'crucifix necklace removed by Muslim foster carer and is asked to learn Arabic'
• Five-year-old Christian girl 'made to live with strict Muslim foster family by London council'
• Christian girl was forced into foster home where ‘nobody spoke English’
• Christian child 'begs' not to be sent back to Muslim foster family in UK

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A foster carers' backyard pool where toddler Braxton Slager drowned was "distinctly green in colour", installed without approval and was not up to Australian standards, an inquest into the child's death has heard.

More >> Toddler in foster care drowned in 'dank and green' pool, inquest hears

LK Report for 8/27/17 - The Foster Care and Adoption Info that CPS doesn't want you to know...

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An ongoing conversation on Reddit.com.  Worth the read or perhaps you have some advice for this CPS Victim.

More >> New York - I've been visited by CPS 8 times, to enquire about a child I don't have. At what point it becomes harassment or stalking?
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LANSING, MI - Michigan parents could see more joint custody and substantially equal parenting time under a bill the House of Representatives is considering.

More >> Michigan parents could get more joint custody, shared parenting time under House bill
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State officials have found that San Joaquin County is failing to properly care for its foster youth — from inadequate visits by social workers to poor monitoring of psychotropic drugs — with problems extending far beyond an emergency shelter where hundreds of abused and neglected children have been arrested and jailed for minor misdeeds.

More >> State demands fixes in San Joaquin foster care system
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Local foster dad charged with murder of a toddler

More >> Foster dad charged with murder

LK Report for 8/26/17 - Don't pimp out the foster child!

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Early in March, Felicia Hickson seemed to be unraveling. She complained of hearing helicopters overhead. Neighbors saw her standing in the open window of her North Philadelphia home looking up at the sky. She also had been using drugs, again.

More >> DHS took away two of her kids. She jumped from a window with the third in her arms.

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Most foster parents will tell you that saying goodbye to a foster child is one of the hardest parts of being a foster parent. And as hard as this process is for you, it’s also an emotional and confusing one for your foster child, but there are a few things you can do to help with the transition.

More >> How Can I Help My Foster Child Reunite With Birth Parents?

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For years we've been keeping an eye on Florida’s foster care system, a system where kids can too easily get lost in the paperwork.

More >> Lawsuit alleges agencies failed to mention foster teen's past

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California is moving forward with a pair of initiatives designed to increase its supply of foster parents while grappling with sweeping reforms to its foster care system.

More >> Needing Foster Homes, California Seeks to Relax Rules on Criminal Convictions

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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. - Three people were arrested Thursday for trying to pimp out a 16-year-old foster child in southwest Miami-Dade, authorities said.

More >> 3 accused of trying to pimp out foster child in southwest Miami-Dade

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The state of New York scattered my sister, my three brothers and me to what seemed like the four corners of the earth when my mother went to prison. Incarceration has been a family affliction — my mother followed in her mother’s footsteps, and my brother Sequan Prude followed her. Mom struggles to this day to bring us together.

More >> America must do more to help family members of incarcerated

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When the Tobiassons believed their 6-year-old adopted son needed discipline, authorities said, they would put him in a small room in the basement, often in the pitch dark, with only a mattress and blanket.

More >> An adopted 6-year-old was locked in a basement and forced to eat carrots, police say

LK Report for 8/25/17 - Think it's bad what they do to the parents? You should see what they do to the kids!

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LAS VEGAS - Police say Daevon Branon-Banks died last week in the care of his foster parents. He was 1-years-old.

Craig Dickens initially told police that Daevon fell from his crib. But, that wasn't true. Officers say Dickens later admitted to throwing Daevon to the floor multiple times when he was drunk. "He had a special light about him. He was an angel," said Ramona Branon, Daevon's grandmother. "I really think he was an angel sent from God."

More >> Foster father charged in toddler's death

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Thousands of Aboriginal children from the Stolen Generation were given criminal records, an SBS investigation has found.

According to SBS, state government policies designated being an Indigenous child "in need of protection" as criminal.

More >> 'Stolen Generation' children were given criminal records

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VENTURA, Calif. - An Oxnard man is facing multiple counts of lewd acts with a child following an investigation by the Ventura Police Department.

More >> Oxnard man accused of sexually abusing a foster child for years

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A judge has raised the "tragic probability" that missing boy William Tyrrell is dead in legal documents that reveal the child was in foster care at the time of his disappearance.

More >> Missing boy William Tyrrell, in foster care when he vanished, is probably dead: court

• REVEALED: Missing toddler William Tyrrell was in FOSTER CARE when he was abducted from his foster gran's home - as Supreme Court judge admits the three-year-old is 'probably no longer alive'

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CLEARWATER — The couple thought they were doing the right thing when they fostered a young teenage boy at their Clearwater home.

More >> Two girls sexually abused after agencies failed to disclose foster teen's history, lawsuit says

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Tragic ignorance! Many non-indigenous mothers “really thought that indigenous women didn’t mother properly"

More >> Stealing Children: A Look at Indigenous Child Removal Policies

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Homicide suspects Jennifer and Joseph Rosenbaum of McDonough appeared in Henry County Superior Court recently on charges stemming from the Nov. 17, 2015 death of their foster child Laila Daniel, 2.

More >> Charges added in Henry County foster child death case

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CROWN POINT — A hearing for a Gary woman alleged to have suffocated her 1-year-old foster child has been rescheduled from Monday to Sept. 11

More >> New hearing date set for foster mother charged with murder of 1-year-old
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Since mid-2016, more than 130 Oregon children have spent at least one night as "unplaced foster youth" — meaning they had no foster family to go home to.

But a soon-to-be opened temporary housing program is looking to change that.

More >> No more hotels? New housing coming for 'unplaced' Oregon foster youth
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In June, the Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury released two reports related to the outcomes of at-risk youth in our county child welfare system. The reports, "Child Welfare In Humboldt: Getting the Door Open" and "Responding in Time to Help Our 'At Risk' Children,'" allege that the three agencies most responsible for protecting local children, the Humboldt County Office of Education, the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office and the Department of Health and Human Services, are not working efficiently together. Much of the blame fell on DHHS's Child Welfare Services which — due to a number of factors — has allegedly failed to respond to and follow up on complaints from mandated reporters.

More >> DHHS, Sheriff, Respond to Grand Jury Reports on Child Welfare

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