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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Man charged with murder in foster child's death

Radcliff police have arrested a foster parent more than eight months after a four-year-old boy in his care died.On May 8, the boy was taken to Norton Children's hospital unconscious, and not breathing. He was accompanied by his foster parent, Bill Embry. The child died two days later.

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Former foster parent sentenced to eight months for possessing child porn

A former foster father has been sentenced to eight months in jail for possession of child pornography.

The man is not being named to protect the identities of his former foster daughters, whose complaint to police in 2013 led Manitoba RCMP to find more than 800 images of child pornography on the 53-year-old mechanic’s laptop and in his garage.

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Youth will have say in coroner’s review of group and foster home safety

Up to 10 youth with experience in Ontario’s child welfare system will be invited to inform a panel of experts probing the deaths of 11 young people in residential care over the past three years.

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Seattle foster children fed ‘dog food burritos' get $6M from state

A state agency agrees to pay millions to four former foster children sent to the home of a Seattle couple even after the state had revoked their license.

"I would rather have spent an eternity in hell before I spend another day in the Robinsons' house," said a former foster child.

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Governor Bevin suggest rethinking policy for child welfare cases

Kentucky Governor says the Commonwealth should not put an emphasis on placing children back with families involved in Cabinet for Health and Family Services investigations.

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New report finds 76 deaths last year of children in Massachusetts under state supervision

BOSTON -- In fiscal 2017, there were 76 deaths of children under state care or supervision, 25 reports of near-fatalities and nine serious bodily injuries, according to a report released Tuesday by the Office of the Child Advocate.

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Foster kids kept in cars at Wawa parking lot in Hillsborough County

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – In a month-long investigation of foster care in Hillsborough County, 8 On Your Side has discovered a disturbing practice of keeping foster kids in cars day and night at a Wawa gas station because they had nowhere else to go.

One day after we started asking questions, Eckerd Connects fired its contractor, Youth and Family Alternatives, the provider of that foster care, citing a lack of proper supervision.

“They’re just sitting there through the night or throughout the day,” said former Youth and Family Alternatives case manager Sharday Moore.

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Foster parents told not to hug or cuddle children they are bringing up in official guidance about the risk of sex abuse

Foster parents are discouraged from hugging or cuddling the children they are bringing up, a scathing report found yesterday.

They are deterred from showing affection by warnings in official guidance about the risk of sex abuse, it said.

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Family sues CPS workers who investigated after parents gave toddler CBD oil for seizures

The parents of a two-year-old girl are suing the Department of Child Services case workers who they said threatened to take away their child after they gave her cannabidiol oil to treat her epilepsy.

Lelah Jerger, the child's mother, said Child Protective Services arrived at the Jergers' house in Huntingburg in September, after personnel at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health reported her when she and her husband used CBD oil to treat their daughter Jaelah, rather than Keppra, a prescribed medication.

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Can state child welfare services talk to kids without your consent? Depends on who you ask.

James Luster of Gulfport said he will never forget the events of Monday, Jan. 29. That was the day he learned he was being investigated by Mississippi Child Protective Services.

Luster denies the allegations and said they were “not true.”

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Grandmother of toddler allegedly killed by mother says child services failed them

A South Florida grandmother devastated over the brutal murder of her 2-year-old grandson, allegedly at the hands of his own mother, said state child welfare officials could have done more to prevent his death.

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Lawmakers question whether foster system should speed search for biological parents

JEFFERSON CITY — Searches for biological parents of children in state custody soon could face a much stricter deadline.

House Bill 2027 would excuse the children’s division of Missouri’s Department of Social Services from a search for a child’s biological parent or parents after the child has been in the system for 60 days if certain conditions are met.

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Firebombing suspect has history of threatening caseworkers

The Plains Twp. man accused of firebombing the Luzerne County Children and Youth Services building amid a child custody battle last year has a long history of threatening caseworkers, according to court documents filed Monday.

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Threat Of Deportation: A Trigger For Toxic Stress In Children Left Behind

On a snowy Saturday morning in January, Selvin, 13, and his mother were in the basement of the First and Summerfield United Methodist Church in New Haven, to support a friend in sanctuary. As they sat there, the boy tried to push away thoughts of how it would be when ICE came to take away his own mother, who is also under a deportation order.

“I’m going to be alone with my little brother and my dad,” Selvin said. “Sometimes I feel I don’t want to talk to anybody. I just go to my room, lock the door, and I feel depressed.”

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Review board says Dalton grandmother is "too old" to get custody of great-granddaughter

Dalton, GA. — A Dalton great- grandmother says her parenting ability is being judged unfairly.

A review panel in Georgia says the 73-year-old is too old to have permanent custody of her 16-month-old granddaughter.

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Kentucky governor explains termination of 'adoption czar'

Kentucky's Republican governor said he terminated a $240,000 no-bid contract for a state "adoption czar" because it was not worth it to keep him on the job even though he praised his performance.

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Legal claim against state alleges abuse of foster child

TUCSON, AZ - A $15 million notice of claim alleges the state of Arizona failed to protect a former foster child who spent 12 years in the home of a man convicted of child sex crimes.

The Arizona Daily Star reports the claim was filed against the Department of Child Safety and Department of Economic Security.

The claim is a precursor to a lawsuit.

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Leaving Child Home Alone To Be A Crime In Texas If "Sherin's Law" Passed

FYI: This is a knee-jerk reaction.

HOUSTON:  Efforts to have a new law in the US state of Texas which would make it a felony to leave a child alone at home is gathering steam and has won the support of a lawmaker in whose constituency 3-year-old Indian girl Sherin Mathews was found dead in a culvert, a media report said.

The proposed 'Sherin's Law' would make it a felony to leave a child at home alone, US media reports quoted activists involved in the move as saying.

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With charges dropped, foster mom accused of killing baby seeks to rebuild life

Tammi Flythe’s pain runs deep.

“It started when that little baby died,” Flythe said.

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Employee Of Child Protection Services Arrested For Sexual Assaults On Minors

Waves of shock have rippled across the country as a man working for the Government Agency for Child Protection was arrested following eight complaints of sexual assault on minors. The police expect more people to come forward with accusations.

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DHS Caseworker Blames Impersonation For Controversial Facebook Post

An Oklahoma Department of Human Services caseworker is under fire after a Facebook post under her name revealed a disturbing perspective of one of her ongoing cases, but the caseworker claims she never wrote the post.

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Siblings suffered gruesome abuse in foster care and the state ignored it, lawsuit says

Siblings who say they were tortured, beaten and sexually abused in foster homes when they were children have sued the state of Washington, arguing that the abuse continued despite multiple reports of mistreatment.

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The Swinging Sixties marked the onset of forced adoptions

Thousands of British mothers are in despair because their babies and young children have been snatched by the state to “feed” the ever-greedy adoption and fostering industries that prosper in the UK.

Dramatic? Yes. An exaggeration? No!

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Ethiopia Bans Foreign Adoption

Ethiopia has banned the adoption of Ethiopian children by foreign families, according to the country’s state-run News Agency ENA, citing concerns over abuse.

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