Before suspension, judge put 5-year-olds in foster care. Now foster dad is charged with sexual abuse

One of the 5-year-old twins ordered removed from their parents by Fayette County Judge Kathy Stein was subsequently sexually abused by her foster father, according to grand jury indictments of him.

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Manitoba children seized by child-welfare workers no longer housed in hotels

The Manitoba government has stopped tracking the controversial use of hotel rooms to house kids seized by child-welfare workers.

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FIRST STATE IN THE NATION VOTES ON FREE-RANGE BILL OF RIGHTS! Would Decriminalize Parents Who Let Their Kids Play Outside or Wait Briefly in Car

Oh, it wasn’t called that. Nonetheless, the proposed law would have ended “neglect” investigations of parents who simply let their children play outside, walk to school, wait in the car for under 15 minutes in temperate conditions, or come home as a latchkey kid. If the parents were otherwise neglectful or abusive, of course, the state was allowed to probe. But if the parents simply trusted their kids with a little independence, the worry that they could face charges would be lifted.

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Human Rights Watch Urges Closing Orphanages in Armenia, Integrating Disabled Children and Orphans

Human Rights Watch (HRW), the New York-based humanitarian organization, in February released a report on the fate of children in Armenian orphanages, especially those who are mentally or physically handicapped.

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Head of court-appointed child advocacy group is terminated

Roy Kitchell Jr. has been terminated as executive director of CASA of Harrison County, a group whose work affects the lives of hundreds of children in child abuse and neglect cases.

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Foster care ‘on the cheap’ — Washington’s recipe for failure

Jamie Floch’s 8-year-old foster son, Austin, was having one of his near-daily meltdowns, where he would lash out in anger, break things or even hit his older brother.


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Settlement reached with child’s parents

Luzerne County Children and Youth Services has reached a settlement with the parents of a toddler who died after being placed into foster care, according to court documents.

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DUNDEE ORPHANAGE IN CHILD ABUSE PROBE

A former orphanage run by the Catholic Church in Dundee is among those which will be at the centre of the second phase of the Scottish child abuse inquiry.

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Someone to care: Oregon could easily remedy many issues plaguing its foster care system

Oregon has no shortage of unfunded mandates, but there is one on the books that, if fully funded, could help remedy some of the most serious problems plaguing the state’s overburdened child welfare system.

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Child welfare settlements costing the state more than $5M

Since the death of Peter Boy Kema nearly 20 years ago, the state said it has improved the safety net for abused and neglected children.

But Big Island Deputy Prosecutor Rick Damerville, who handled the Peter Boy Kema case, said there are still holes in the system.

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Sex abuse victim says he was threatened 'with a gun' to keep quiet after rape by Long Island foster dad

A sex abuse victim, testifying against his accused pedophile foster dad, recalled waking up to find his shorts around his ankles and the older man raping him.

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Life in prison for foster father rapist

Esikhaleni Regional Court has convicted and sentenced a 50-year-old foster father to life in jail for raping his daughter between August 2011 and September 2012.

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• Foster father sentenced to life for rape

Teen who hanged herself at Keys shelter got lost in the foster care system

When Lauryn Martin-Everett hanged herself at a troubled Tavernier youth shelter, children’s advocates in the small island community began asking questions. The answers, they were told, were hundreds of miles away.

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• How a suicidal Florida foster child fell through the cracks

Hundreds Of Couples Have Been Devastated By The Sudden Collapse Of An Adoption Agency

Heather Davis and her husband Bruce had built a crib in their bedroom, and as the days ticked by they imagined their future child sleeping there. "Having a child would complete our family, our lives, and our dreams," they wrote in their adoption profile, which went online in December.

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Couple sues CPS claiming their 7 kids were illegally removed from their home

By law, Child Protective Services can take children into protective custody without a warrant but only if the children are in immediate danger.

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Here's what's right, wrong with N.J. child welfare agency after 10 years of scrutiny

After a decade of effort, the state child welfare agency has succeeded in reining in the number of cases assigned to workers who investigate claims of child abuse and neglect, according to the latest federal court monitor's report released Wednesday.

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Federal Investigation of Cuyahoga Co. CPS after 5-year-old's beating death

A group is calling for a federal investigation of Cuyahoga County’s Children and Family Services, which provides the county’s child protective services, after the alleged beating death of Ta'naejah McCloud, 5.

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Birth mother dies a year after reuniting with daughter she gave up 80 years ago

Nearly a year after reconnecting with a daughter she gave up for adoption more than eight decades ago, a Wisconsin woman died peacefully at home Friday at 100.

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Tales of Orphan Train riders told

The word “orphan” is more complicated than some might think, especially in the mid-1800s to early 1900s, when many orphans were sent from crowded eastern cities like New York to Midwest cities and towns, including Chanute. 

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Summit Child Welfare adopts “kinder, gentler” approach to investigating abuse and neglect

Social Services can sometimes have a bit of an image problem. Seen as the agency that swoops in and shuttles kids off to foster care, in the past it has had difficulty getting parents to cooperate with its investigations into possible child abuse and neglect.

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CPS Takes Son After Parents Disagree With His ADHD Diagnosis

In an unsettling case that tramples on parents' rights, a school called CPS when a boy's parents disagreed with the school's unofficial ADHD diagnosis.

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Washington to pay abused boy $1.5 million after CPS complaints

The State of Washington has agreed to pay $1.5 million to the family of a child who was abused on multiple occasions by his mother’s boyfriend, despite visits from Child Protective Services. CPS was slow to respond to reports of the abuse and did not conduct a thorough investigation, the boy’s attorneys argued.

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Sicko Long Island foster dad threatened to kill his adopted son if he didn’t act as his sex slave, victim testifies

The adopted son of an accused pedophile testified Wednesday that the Long Island foster dad threatened to murder him if he didn’t submit to sick sexual acts.

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• ‘House of horrors’: Man allegedly molested eight foster kids, performed oral sex on dog in their presence

A Right-Wing Think Tank Is Trying to Bring Down the Indian Child Welfare Act. Why?

Native Americans say the law protects their children. The Goldwater Institute claims it does the opposite.

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• NT girl in care 'let down' by system

Foster mother in child sex crime case extradited back to Alabama

The foster mother at the center of a large child sex crime and abuse investigation is now back in the Shoals.

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