Clinton to pledge that no family pays more than 10 percent of income on child care

Hillary Clinton is pledging Tuesday that as president she will ensure that families pay no more than 10 percent of their income on child care, a significant and rising cost for working parents.

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Lawsuit: State Gave Child Foster Care License to Known Abuser

The Hennepin County Human Services Department allowed the placement of a foster care child into the home of a Brooklyn Park woman who had a record of substantiated child abuse, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.

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Lawsuit filed after 6-year-old died in Brooklyn Park foster home

A year and a half after her death, few would argue 6-year-old Kendrea Johnson’s needed help. She was found in the bedroom of her Brooklyn Park foster home, hanging from her bunk bed by a jump rope.    

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Parents could go to jail for posting kids' pictures on Facebook

Posting pictures and videos of your babies could land you in jail, that is if you are living in France.

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THE INVESTIGATORS EXCLUSIVE: SOME CITY CASEWORKERS WHO PROTECT CHILDREN STALKED, ATTACKED

In the words of one ACS caseworker, "We are risking our lives every day to protect the children of New York City." That worker reached out to The Investigators after several child specialists were injured in serious attacks. Two of them agreed to sit down and talk with Eyewitness News. Still shaken by their ordeal, they asked that their identities be hidden.

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School District Accused of Harsh Discipline

Officials at a Mississippi alternative school routinely handcuffed students to fixed objects where they were forced to eat lunch and unable to use the restroom for extended periods of time, a former student claims in court.

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Child agency admits it's "aware" of case of alleged sexual abuse at foster home in southwest

THE CHILD AND family agency Tusla has acknowledged that it is aware of a case of potential foster care abuse in the Cork/Kerry area.

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Austin Can Find the Money To Fix Child Protective Services, If It Wants To

Texas' Child Protective Services is in crisis. In the wake of the brutal, March 13 death of 4-year-old Leilana Wright in Grand Prairie, a parade of news report have documented that the agency, through some mixture of incompetence and an acute staffing shortage, is fundamentally incapable, as currently organized, of doing its job and protecting the state's children.

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• Bills Coming Due for Troubled Foster Care System

Foster child sent back to live with her drug-abusing mom

Note: Foster Care Providers often like to whine to the media about their opinions when CPS gives the kids back.  This is just one assholes opinion.

An activist who became a foster parent because of the Nixzmary Brown child-abuse horror says she faced her own Administration for Children’s Services nightmare when the city agency gave her foster tot back to the girl’s drug-addled mother.

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Woman who admitted perjury did so 'out of fear of losing custody of her children', court hears

A woman who pled guilty to perjury said today that she did so because she thought that it would affect the custody of her children. The perjury was committed during a case against her estranged partner who stood accused of running over a woman with a bus in 2008 in St Paul’s Bay.

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• Bus driver's ex-partner lied to court because she feared losing custody of children

Social worker suspended for further 12 months after failing to refer self-harming child

A social worker who falsified records after failing to visit families whose children were on the protection register has had his suspension increased by another 12 months.

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Revealed: Mother on the run with her two daughters 'is hiding in woods with hippies after being helped to flee by cross-dressing ex-MI5 spy David Shayler'

A mother on the run with her two children is thought to be hiding in woodland with hippies after snatching them from care and fleeing on the advice of a renegade former MI5 spy.

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Deltona man working Kissimmee group home accused of molesting 15-year-old girl

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A Deltona man who worked at a group home in Osceola County was arrested on accusations he molested a child and offered her money for sex, authorities said.

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Judge orders Somali teen returned to foster family

A federal judge in Seattle has ordered immigration officials to release a Somali teenager who was taken from his Oregon foster family and placed in an adult detention center in Tacoma.

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Foster mom gets 13 yrs. in scalded toddler case

A St. Albans woman has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for scalding a 19-month-old boy in a bathtub and subsequently failing for more than a week to get him treatment for second- and third-degree burns.

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Fresh foster care concerns prompt calls for inquiry

Disabilities Minister Finian McGrath said he was “absolutely horrified” at the latest revelations involving a teenager in the Cork/Kerry area which follow on from the ‘Grace’ scandal in the South-East and a similar scandal in the West.

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• Teenager with intellectual disabilities left in foster home despite allegations of sexual abuse
• Suspected sex abuse in foster family where child sent, court hears

Man accused of sexually assaulting underage foster daughter at their home

 A Grand Rapids man faces up to life in prison for allegedly sexually assaulting his own foster daughter at their home.

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Children legally kidnapped from families in Norway

Norwegian human rights attorney Marius Reikaras recently wrote a letter to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu in which he tried to draw attention to the "horror" that many families, including Turkish citizens, face in Norway.

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“Baby snatch parents” have been “brainwashed” into putting bleach before their child, says source

In an extraordinary development on last week’s cover story centring on the number of Portuguese children taken into care by British social services, a source has come forwards to highlight the case against 31-year-old Portuguese mother Iolanda Menino - claiming the cardiology technician has been “brainwashed” by her partner, Leonardo Edwards.

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Group-home worker accused of touching 15-year-old girl

A Kissimmee group-home employee was arrested after allegedly offering a foster child money for sex and inappropriately touching her, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office.

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Bills Coming Due for Troubled Foster Care System

Two special masters appointed by a federal judge to oversee reforms to the state’s embattled foster care system have begun visiting with state officials, and their recent two-and-a-half-day orientation is projected to cost the state roughly $43,000, according to state officials.

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Jersey Care Inquiry: Report claims personal privacy of victims 'breached'

In a 446-page report, Jersey's Data Protection Commissioner accused The Independent Jersey Care Inquiry of "systemic breaches" over the way it handled information.

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Sex, drugs and gangs: Victoria's child protection system set for a shake-up

Children in state-run residential care are trading sex for drugs and being recruited into street gangs, painting a picture of an under-strain system where vulnerable young people continue to fall through the cracks.

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Parents can sue Michigan therapist in false memories case

The Michigan Supreme Court has cleared the way for a lawsuit to advance against a counselor in the Upper Peninsula who is accused of planting false memories of sexual abuse in the mind of a teenager.

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Testimony from Norway’s CPS Victims: Real and Raw

These are videos with stories directly from Barnevernet victims.  PLEASE SHARE these videos in the hope that many good and compassionate Norwegians will find out about the human rights violations happening in Norway, and hold Barnevernet accountable. Many thanks to Evgeni Dyakonov [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trc1w3k4G7Q ] for allowing us to share these videos on Facebook and Delight in Truth. We hope these clips penetrate deep into the heart of Norway.

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