Case Over Psychotropic Drugs Given To Missouri Foster Kids Now A Class Action

A lawsuit charging Missouri officials have failed to properly oversee the administration of psychotropic medications to children in foster care was certified Thursday as a class action.

Finding that they face “a substantial risk of serious harm,” U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey certified a class consisting of all children in the state’s foster care system who are receiving psychotropic drugs.

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Hundreds of Texas foster care children denied Medicaid services

A private company that the state has tasked with providing Medicaid coverage to Texas foster children has repeatedly denied requests for critical care, many for children with disabilities.

Between June 7 and July 13, Superior HealthPlan denied medical services to foster children 394 times, according to data the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services provided to the American-Statesman. The agency, which oversees the state’s child welfare programs, started tracking the denials of service last month, in an effort to determine how the denials are affecting foster kids. Foster parents have reported denials from managed care organizations for years.

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DCFS investigators getting 'many different versions' of what happened when 3-year-old boy died in foster home fire

Child welfare officials said Thursday they have been told "many different versions" of what happened when a 3-year-old boy in foster care died in a fire earlier this month, apparently alone in a locked apartment.

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services gave no details, and the disclosure failed to satisfy Judge Patrick Murphy, who has criticized the agency for the slow pace of its investigation into the death of Maqkwone Jones on July 8.

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• Judge unhappy with pace of DCFS investigation 11 days after boy, 3, dies in fire

Ex-Abilene CPS worker convicted in child's death case gets probation

Former Child Protective Services case worker Gretchen Denny was sentenced to 60-days in jail and six years probation for her role in the death of a 22-month-old Abilene girl.

She is expected to turn herself in tomorrow.

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• Ex-Abilene CPS worker sentenced to 6 years probation, 60 days jail in connection to toddler's death

Why does the State Department make it hard to adopt children from other countries?

Adoption from other countries is down 80 percent since its peak. Why do we make this hard? America is pro-adoption; the State Department should be, too.

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Note: So they can sell more of your kids.

Fake Child Protective Services worker tried taking 3 kids — but dad was armed, Texas cops say

The man who barged into a family’s southeast Texas home over the weekend was a total stranger.

But the stranger claimed to be a Child Protective Services worker during the July 14 encounter — and he demanded the father who lived there to hand over his three children, according to the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office.

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Police: Jacksonville teen assaulted after leaving group home

A Jacksonville teenager in the foster system was sexually assaulted in February as he was walking away from his group home in the Panama Park neighborhood on Jacksonville's Northside, authorities said.

The case was highlighted in a viral Facebook video in which the 15-year-old boy describes the attack, his experience in the foster care system and living at Panama Youth Services group home, The Florida Times-Union reports.

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Indiana social service providers turn away Illinois foster kids because of state’s Medicaid delinquencies

Illinois is ramping up efforts to place children under its care in other states to prevent them from having to stay in mental institutions longer than necessary, but some providers in other states won’t take the kids because of Illinois’ poor record of payment.

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Kanawha CPS worker allegedly involved in missing teen case arrested again

A Kanawha County Child Protective Services worker, who has been charged in a separate case involving a missing teenager, was arrested again Monday.

Dustin R. Kinser, 32, has been charged with domestic battery after police say he went to his mother’s home Monday and “began to yell and rummage through the home looking for a gun,” according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court. He then allegedly pushed his mother onto a bed, held her down and attempted to grab her phone.

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• Child Protective Services employee arrested while out on bail, faces charges in multiple incidents

Foster care expert says system is struggling; children now using social media to cry out for help

Dr. John DeGarmo, a foster parent himself, is also an international expert on the foster care system.

He described the current system as "struggling."

"Foster care is in crisis, due to issues such as these, as well as to the opioid epidemic that is strangling families, migration, the lack of foster parents, and of course human trafficking," he said.

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Lancaster abuse case: Attorney, relatives demand criminal investigation of social workers

An attorney representing the father and other relatives of a 10-year-old Lancaster boy who died from abuse is demanding a criminal investigation of the social workers involved in the case.

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Guest view: When child protection goes wrong

Park County has recently learned that its office of Child and Family Services is scheduled to be closed by the State of Montana. There has been publicly identified resistance to this decision, presented as though it is all bad.

But what might be the rest of the story? While this state agency sometimes saves lives, are there other voices to be heard? Do Child Protection Specialists only protect?

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Alleged foster parent rapist back in Florence for court

A foster parent facing more than 70 child sex abuse charges is back in Florence.

Daniel Spurgeon and his wife were originally facing 700 charges together. On Monday he pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to 76 charges.

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'I was kidnapped and raped' Foster child calls out group home for negligence

A teenager from Panama Youth Services told police he was kidnapped and raped. The same teenager is now on Facebook being critical of the foster care system and the group home.

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Troopers: CPS employee charged in connection with missing teen re-arrested

A suspended West Virginia Child Protective Services worker was re-arrested late Monday night, state police say.

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Kansas Drops Hiring Standards to Attract More Child Welfare Workers

As Kansas rolls out changes to its child welfare system, a decision to loosen requirements for child protection specialists has some child advocates concerned that the state is trading a quantity problem for a quality problem.

The state says it created the new staff classification – unlicensed child protection specialist – in an effort to recruit more child protection specialists, noting that last month there were almost 80 open positions in the state. Applicants aren’t required to be licensed social workers, but must have a bachelor’s degree in a related field.

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Ask Amy: I Was Accused Of Abuse For Teaching My Child The Facts Of Life

I usually don't post stuff like this, but I think this dad should be filing complaints against this school nurse.  I would.

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Congressional panel OKs measure that allows adoption agencies to discriminate same-sex couples prompts outcry from Illinois lawmaker

Note: they call it discrimination.  I call it picking and choosing and setting standards on who they want to sell your children to.

They’re calling it the #LicensetoDiscriminate Amendment, but even that language isn’t strong enough for some Illinois lawmakers.

An amendment to a budget bill recently passed in the U.S. House Appropriations Committee would permit some religious adoption agencies the ability to block placement of children with same-sex couples, local elected leaders said at a news conference in Chicago on Monday.

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James Walker: Snatched? Where are the tears for American kids?

When I was 7 years old, my parents went through what I and my siblings were told was legal separation.

We were snatched away from them, kicking and screaming, by a social worker and placed in the Belleville Children’s Shelter in New Jersey while my parents attempted to work out their problems.

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Family Court Bombing: Court Case Is 'Lame', Defence Claims

"The idea that by himself he could have constructed the bombs is absurd"

The lawyer for alleged Family Court bomber Leonard John Warwick said a ‘monster’ was responsible for the infamous string of 1980s crimes, but that isn’t his client.

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10-year-old girl starved, burned, left in trash; grandmother sues Georgia child services

A 10-year-old Georgia girl’s death of apparent starvation could have been prevented had the state’s child protection agency thoroughly investigated repeated complaints about the girl’s abuse and neglect, a lawsuit contends.

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Baby LK's Top Ten CPS Horror Stories of the Week - July 15th 2018

He's back!!!

Baby LK's Top Ten CPS Horror Stories of the Week. Exposing Child Protective Services, Foster Care and Adoption for what it really is. Little Human Trafficking by government run social service agencies all over the world. This is a new series that I am trying out. Please like and share and comment if you want more.

Here are the links to all of the stories used in this video.

1. https://www.heraldandnews.com/news/inmate-sues-dhs-for-million-claiming-abuse/article_c83a232b-57c2-5d0a-8644-212bbb33df07.html

2. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/attorney-dekalb-man-had-void-adopted-10-year-old-then-killed-him/786990041
3. https://www.pnj.com/story/news/crime/2018/07/10/ex-fdle-supervisor-gets-8-life-sentences-child-sex-crimes/769573002/
4. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-dcfs-employee-charged-20180710-story.html
5. http://www.wsfa.com/story/38644488/foster-dad-in-child-sex-crime-case-extradited-to-shoals
6. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-boy-dies-fire-20180713-story.html
7. https://www.registercitizen.com/news/crime/article/Tucson-couple-with-adopted-kids-plead-guilty-to-13060845.php
8. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-foster-parents-of-disabled-children-get-far-more-benefits-than-birth-families-study-1.4008851
9. https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/crime/2018/07/09/former-cyfd-employee-accused-driving-children-while-intoxicated-dui-dwi/764745002
10. https://kfor.com/2018/07/10/former-ok-foster-wishes-employee-charged-with-embezzling-more-than-20k-from-charity/

Separating children from their parents at the border

This is what has been going on at the border over the last week.  This is what I've collected split up into the topics that I see being presented.  There have been hundreds of links all saying the same thing from different sources, and I am working with what they've given me. 

Why are they doing this?

• Border measures part of Trump’s bigger immigration crackdown 
• Detaining immigrant kids lucrative - Yes.  Just like the System Sucks in Child Welfare cases.  They have nothing to do with them being taken, but get to profit by providing services to the kids who aren't in their parents care.
• Detaining immigrant kids is now a billion-dollar industry - And guess whose paying for it.  😁

Who are the families at the border?

• Trump admin hands over names of children under 5 separated at border - 
• One kid separated from his parents may actually be American - and not eligible for reunification - An anchor baby I presume.

Do they even know who the parents are?

• Which Company Will Test the DNA of Separated Families?
• Medical experts worry about testing DNA to reunite families
• The Government Is Reportedly Trying to Make Migrant Women Pay for DNA Testing
• HHS defends decision to shorten family reunification vetting process

Sending the kids back to their parents...

• US cannot reunite dozens of child migrants with their parents
• Feds Start to Reunite Families Separated at Border
• Federal judge declines to ease deadlines for government to reunite separated families
• Reunited immigrant children scooped up into parents’ arms
• As Migrant Families Are Reunited, Some Children Don’t Recognize Their Mothers
• Honduran father seeks release of 2 daughters held in NYC foster care center
• ‘I Want Her Back’: Some Migrant Families Reunite, but Other Parents Grow Desperate
• Separated families are reunited in US, then deported back to Guatemala
• First Wave of Migrant Children Reunited With Parents
• Trump administration says detained parents must decide whether to keep families intact

Ut oh... They didn't do it on time...

• US falls short of deadline to reunite kids, parents
• Trump Administration Will Only Reunite Half of Separated Migrant Kids Under Age Five by Court Deadline
• US has no excuse for delay in reuniting immigrant children with their parents
• Why the government missed the deadline to reunite immigrant families
• US judge criticizes plan to reunify families split at border
• Parents desperate as government misses migrant family reunification deadline

What if they can't reunite all the kids with their parents?

• Gov. Inslee: Trump admin won’t reunite all migrant families, will place some kids in foster care
• Can separated immigrant children just walk out of shelters? Technically, yes.

F****** Liberals...

• Vigil for migrant children held outside youth facility in Bristow
• Watch: Joe Kennedy III details NYC visit with migrant children in foster care
• Top Religious Groups Privately Urged DHS Not To Separate Immigrant Parents And Children - Yep.  It seems that some Religious Groups don't support Trumps policy of splitting up families at the border.  Therefore they must be liberals.
• ACLU: Trump administration should pay counseling for separated families

Foster dad in child sex crime case extradited to Shoals

Daniel Spurgeon, the man indicted on hundreds of child sex abuse charges in Lauderdale County, was extradited from Florida on Friday.

Spurgeon and his wife, Jenise Spurgeon, are accused of multiple sex crimes against foster children who were in their care while they were in the Shoals.

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Judge works out deal to bring family together for funeral of boy who died in foster home fire

When 3-year-old Maqkwone Jones is laid to rest next week, he will be surrounded by a family that has rarely been together for nearly a year.


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