Were you adopted? You now have right to request adoption file

Individuals who have been adopted (adoptees), and who are at least 21 years of age, may now request their adoption file from the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH).

Forms are now available online for adoptees to fill out to request their files.

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"Do me or I'll take your kid away" - Baby LKs Top Ten CPS Horror Stories of the Week

"Do me or I'll take your kid away" - Baby LKs Top Ten CPS Horror Stories of the Week

Here is the complete list of links to the stories used in this video.

10. 27 child adoption agencies shut over irregularities: Govt -

https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/27-child-adoption-agencies-shut-over-irregularities-govt-118080201251_1.html

9. CPD: 8-Year-Old Boy Returned To DHS Custody, 12-Year-Old Brother Still Missing - http://www.newson6.com/story/38780978/ocpd-8-year-old-boy-returned-to-dhs-custody-12-year-old-brother-still-missing

8. Philadelphia parents separated from their kids protest city, state agencies - https://whyy.org/segments/philadelphia-parents-separated-from-their-kids-protest-city-state-agencies/

7. About 100 Child Protective Services employees relocated after office overrun by rats - https://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/child-protective-services-office-infested-with-rats

6. Reports of suspected child abuse, neglect increase after summer break -  http://www.newsandtribune.com/news/clark_county/reports-of-suspected-child-abuse-neglect-increase-after-summer-break/article_878be368-9508-11e8-af1d-7784b8adaf66.html

5. Thousands of parents show support of child protective services lawsuit against Minnesota -https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2018/08/02/child-protective-services-lawsuit-little-falls-children-abuse-court-minnesota-cps/827514002/ 

4. Social worker sent inappropriate WhatsApp messages to vulnerable mum -

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/social-worker-sent-inappropriate-whatsapp-14970400

3. Bond Reduced For Richardson Man Accused in Death of Adopted Daughter - http://www.wbap.com/2018/08/02/bond-reduced-for-richardson-man-accused-in-death-of-adopted-daughter/

2. Anger management counselor, her son accused of abusing foster children - https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/6416823-151/anger-management-counselor-her-son-accused-of-abusing

1. Ex-Family Services Worker Admits Pressuring Women Into Sex: AG - https://patch.com/new-jersey/lawrenceville/ex-family-services-worker-admits-pressuring-women-sex-ag

The Governments Child Snatching Mess at the Border

This story has too many headlines to keep up with it daily so I've just been tucking them away..

I haven't done this in like almost a month.  So here's what is going on.

A public reaction

• Michigan foster care applications surge in wake of immigration crisis
• I Was in Foster Care. Family Separation Isn’t Just a Problem at the Border
• My Foster Daughter Was Separated from Her Family at the Border

The money

• Detaining immigrant children is now a billion-dollar industry for private contractors
• Grand Rapids agency: We don't profit off immigrant kids in separation crisis - bullshit
• Trump Takes Millions From Health Programs to Fund Family Separation Policy
• How One Agency Built a Multimillion-Dollar Business in Migrant Children

Where are the kids?

• Detained Children Sent to Religious Adoption Agencies
• Judge orders minors transferred out of immigration detention facility
• Judge orders government to release immigrant kids from troubled Texas shelter

What are they doing to them?

• Lawyers to focus on addressing immigrant children's trauma
• Immigrant children describe hunger and cold in detention
• Trump administration hit with lawsuits over inhumane treatment of migrant detainees
• Agencies investigate conditions for separated migrant children
• Officials investigating abuse claims by migrant children at Chicago-area shelter
• Immigrant Shelters Drug Traumatized Teenagers Without Consent
• Trump’s detention centers caught drugging and starving kids
• Immigrant youth shelters: 'If you’re a predator, it’s a gold mine'
• Report: Records Show Scores of Allegations of Sexual Misconduct at Shelters for Immigrant Kids
• A 6-Year-Old Girl Was Molested in an Immigrant Detention Center—Twice
• Judge Orders Trump Administration to Stop Drugging Migrant Children
• Federal Judge Confirms Government Officials Were Forcibly Drugging Migrant Children
• JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO QUIT DRUGGING IMMIGRANT CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT
• Advocates say immigrant child died after leaving ICE custody in Texas
• Advocates Warn About Conditions In ICE Detention Centers After Toddler's Death
• Ariz. migrant shelter worker accused of abusing 8 teenage boys
• Former youth care worker charged with sexual abuse of migrant children

Those pesky parents

• Separated migrant parents sue US immigration officials for more communication with children
• Detained parents' emotional letter: U.S. government 'kidnapped our children with tricks'
• Judge temporarily halts deportations of parents separated from children
• Salvadoran mother separated from son to remain in custody in Tacoma
• Honduran immigrant mom waits to be reunited with baby girl caught at border
• Separated parents 'feel like hostages' while awaiting reunification with immigrant children
• Are immigrant family reunions likely? 463 parents may have been deported without kids
• ACLU asks judge to block government from deporting reunited families for seven days
• Migrant parents were misled into waiving rights to family reunification, ACLU tells court
• ICE agents pressured parents to be deported with their children — then separated them again when they refused
• Lawsuit says families separated by Trump should get more time to seek asylum

Reunification 

• Trump Administration Seeks More Time To Reunify Migrant Families
• Family reunification sought for children sent to Connecticut
• US judge criticizes plan to reunify families split at border
• Fight to reunite immigrant families separated by Trump administration is far from over, advocates say
• A Baby Was Separated From Her Uncle at the Border. Three Months Later, Her Mother Is Still Trying to Get Her Back.
• Trump administration tries to clarify child reunification plan
• Feds say 364 children reunited with undocumented immigrant parents
• Feds to reunite 1,600 undocumented immigrant kids with parents before Thursday deadline amid legal tug-of-war
• Today's the deadline to reunite separated families
• Emotions run high as immigrant families reunite, but many still in limbo
• 700 Kids Still Separated From Their Families After Government Misses Reunification Deadline
• Remaining separated children in Grand Rapids to be reunited soon
• 5 migrant children torn from their families were housed in SC. Now they’ve been reunited.
• Migrant children, parents still separated after reunifications ask, 'What about me?'
• Judge says Trump team '100 percent' responsible for finding deported immigrant parents
• Judge calls Trump administration family reunification efforts 'unacceptable'
• Judge slams Trump admin for suggesting ACLU, others should find deported parents

Damn Liberals

• Immigration Activists Bash Trump’s Family Reunification Plan
• Biden: Migrant family separation 'one of the darkest moments in our history'
• McDaniel: Trump didn’t care about kids’ feelings after being taken from parents
• Americans are stepping up to show reunited migrant families there’s more to their country than Trump
• Lawmakers Question Trump Officials On Family Separation Policy
• Dem senator: Family separation is 'official kidnapping and child abuse'
• Bipartisan senators demand twice monthly family separation updates

Bloopers

• Trump admin lost track of parents of 38 young migrant children
• With a deadline looming, the US can't find parents of 71 children it may have separated
• Governor: Trump officials view placing migrant kids in foster care equal to family reunification
• More Evidence Emerges That Trump Intended for Family Separation to Be Permanent
• Family Reunions Update: Hundreds of Separated Parents Potentially Deported
• As court deadline looms, family separations continue to haunt White House
• Trump Official Says He Warned of Child Trauma From Family Separations
• The Administration Had No Plan to Prevent Widespread Family Separations
• Ivanka Trump: Family separations issue 'was a low point'

A back to school reminder - Teachers are the #1 CPS Rats

The start of a new school year typically conjures memories of yellow school buses in a row, students in a single-file line and fresh crayons, but for the Indiana Department of Child Services, its synonymous with something else – more reports of suspected abuse or neglect.

Data from DCS shows reports of suspected abuse dip in June and July and jump in August when students go back to the classroom. According to the data, in 2017 there were 22,181 reports made in May, 17,696 in June, 17,194 in July and 23,137 in August. Numbers available for 2018 follow a similar pattern: 22,792 reports were made in May. That number dropped to 16,398 in June. Data for July 2018 is not yet available.

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Learning the right lessons from foster care tragedy

ONE NEED ONLY READ the Union Leader’s searing account of the horrible abuse of a young foster child — and the allegedly slipshod quick-and-dirty process by which the foster home was licensed — to understand why the New Hampshire Division of Children Youth and Families and the private agency involved in the case tried desperately to prevent the public from finding out about it.

Fortunately, the Union Leader fought for the public’s right to know and won. Now that the people of New Hampshire know, they can act. But how? The right kind of action requires reconsidering assumptions that have dominated the child welfare debate in New Hampshire for years. Those false assumptions helped get the state into this mess in the first place.

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Oregon counselor, son accused of abusing foster children

An anger management counselor and her adult son are accused of abusing the woman's three foster children.

Ogilvia Pineda, 46, and her son Kyle Macias, 23, were arraigned Monday in Jefferson County Circuit Court on felony child abuse charges, the Bulletin reported .

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Philadelphia parents separated from their kids protest city, state agencies

When Judge Lyris Younge was reassigned out of Philadelphia Family Court, parents and guardians whose children she had ordered into foster care shared a glimmer of hope.

About half of her rulings have been reversed or overturned by state appellate judges for violating due process.

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He abused his adopted daughter and their children and the state didn’t stop it, suit says

The state was supposed to protect the 7-year-old they placed in a Tacoma-area foster home.

Now 45, she says in a lawsuit that state officials failed, and that she suffered years of physical, sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of the foster father who eventually adopted her.

More >> He abused his adopted daughter and their children and the state didn’t stop it, suit says

Thousands of parents show support of child protective services lawsuit against Minnesota

Robin Stoltman moved two of her children out of Minnesota to maintain custody of them. Amanda Weber did the same thing. And so did Dwight Mitchell when he regained custody of his two children.

The three are among thousands of parents clamoring for change in Minnesota's child custody laws.

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Weaponizing CPS: Shaun King says a troll called in a phony child services complaint on his family

"It's been a completely crazy 48 hours," Shaun King declared in a video posted on Twitter Friday morning. The galvanizing civil rights activist and Intercept columnist is no stranger to crazy timelines. Since his rise to prominence as an outspoken figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, he's been repeatedly subjected to conspiracy theories about his racial identity. He says he gets death threats so regularly that "When I leave my house my wife & kids regularly hug and kiss me like it could be the last time they see me." But this week has been different. On Wednesday, he took to social media to say, "Someone hateful has targeted my children tonight. The lowest moment of my life as a leader. Pray for us. We’re safe, but deeply humiliated."

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27 child adoption agencies shut over irregularities: Govt

A total of 27 specialised adoption agencies (SAAs) have been shut over irregularities by the country's apex adoption body CARA, the government said today.

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Bond Reduced For Richardson Man Accused in Death of Adopted Daughter

Dallas County Judge has lowered bond for the Richardson man jailed on capital murder and other charges for allegedly killing his adopted daughter last year.

38-year old Wesley Mathews has been jailed on 1-million dollars bond on murder and injury to a child charges — it was reduced to 500-thousand dollars. And, tampering with evidence bond was reduced to 100-thousand from 250-thousand.

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About 100 Child Protective Services employees relocated after office overrun by rats

Child Protective Services is working to move its employees after rats infested its office southwest of downtown San Antonio.

The owner of the property, which is located at 2118 S. Zarzamora, said he's concerned about the problem and has been working with pest control experts to get rid of the rats for about three weeks now.

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OCPD: 8-Year-Old Boy Returned To DHS Custody, 12-Year-Old Brother Still Missing

One of two missing brothers is back in state custody. The two were under the care of DHS when they disappeared, but a source told News 9 family members were expected to return them both.

Elijah Mohammad, 8, reportedly ran away early Sunday morning. His 12-year-old brother, also named Elijah Mohammad, ran away back in June.  Both had been in foster care as authorities investigated their father, who also has the same name, for alleged child abuse.

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Family suing police after child handcuffed at school

A Michigan mother is suing police after an officer handcuffed her 7-year-old son at an after-school program in 2015.

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Anger management counselor, her son accused of abusing foster children

An anger management counselor and her live-in adult son have been charged with abusing the woman’s three foster children.

Ogilvia Pineda, 46, and Kyle Edgar Macias, 23, were arraigned Monday in Jefferson County Circuit Court on felony child abuse charges and are currently being housed in the Jefferson County Jail.

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Social worker sent inappropriate WhatsApp messages to vulnerable mum

A social worker has had his registration suspended after sending inappropriate WhatsApp messages to a vulnerable woman.

Graham James Murphy sent a number of unsuitable messages complimenting the single parent - identified only as ‘service user A’ - on her appearance while carrying out agency work for Flintshire council .

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Report about social worker impersonator was a hoax

On Friday, Smyrna police received a report about a man allegedly impersonating a social worker who told a resident he was at the home to remove a child, but police have determined the report was false.

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FOSTER CARE SIBLINGS “BILL OF RIGHTS” LAW COMING TO MINNESOTA

As part of the ongoing effort at the state capitol to reform Minnesota's foster care system, two state politicians sponsored a "bill of rights" for siblings in foster care.

Representative Ron Kresha of Little Falls and Senator Jerry Relph are the co-sponsors of the bill. The bill establishes a set of rights for foster care children, including the right to be placed with their siblings when possible, and/or to visit them, or to stay in contact.

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Rally wants to keep Montana families in legal limbo together

A rally will be held Aug. 23 at the state Capitol to shed light on what organizers say is a need for new state laws in Montana to keep families together who are caught up in various legal systems.

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Ex-Family Services Worker Admits Pressuring Women Into Sex: AG

A former state assistant family services worker has admitted to using his position to pressure two women he had supervision of into having sex with him, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced on Monday.

Lamont King, 41, of Trenton, pleaded guilty to a second-degree charge of conspiracy to commit a pattern of official misconduct, according to authorities. He faces three years in state prison and will be permanently barred from public employment in New Jersey.

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Chile's stolen children: American woman finds her Chilean mother 36 years after birth

Growing up in Minneapolis, Alisa Clare Cohen constantly wondered whether her birth parents in Chile really abandoned her. Nearly four decades passed before she learned the truth.

"The story that I was told was that my (biological) family had essentially never meant to keep me," Cohen said.

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5 Lawsuits Against CPS in 1 week - Baby LK's Top 10 CPS Horror Stories of the Week

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

# 10. 69-year-old foster caregiver from Gary charged with child abuse of 3-year-old - https://www.nwitimes.com/news/year-old-foster-caregiver-from-gary-charged-with-child-abuse/article_947fa443-b417-516b-9e77-d31f7de28ffb.html#1

# 9. Boys removed from Texas boarding home amid abuse claims -

https://www.nhregister.com/news/texas/article/Boys-removed-from-Texas-boarding-home-amid-abuse-13113190.php

#8. Illegal adoption: 85 childcare institutions to be inspected -

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/illegal-adoption-85-childcare-institutions-to-be-inspected/627183.html

#7. Troopers probe reported false child caseworker incident - http://www.milfordbeacon.com/news/20180722/troopers-probe-reported-false-child-caseworker-incident

#6. Former Wythe DSS worker facing embezzlement charge

https://www.swvatoday.com/news/article_5488d9c4-91e0-11e8-b929-f3c6a1a5e0ff.html

#5. Lawsuit filed against Rockbridge Area Department of Social Services - https://www.virginiafirst.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-filed-against-rockbridge-area-department-of-social-services/1322807489

#4. $15M lawsuit against DHS claims foster parent abuse -

https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/-15m-lawsuit-filed-against-dhs-claims-foster-parent-abused-boys/1327015490

#3. NH settles another child abuse lawsuit -

http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20180720/NEWS21/180729924

#2. County failed repeatedly to stop sexual abuse of foster children, lawsuit alleges - http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-child-abuse-lawsuit-dcfs-20180726-story.html

#1. Jurors blame L.A. social workers for repeated sexual abuse of El Monte girl and award her $45 million -

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-child-abuse-lawsuit-dcfs-20180726-story.html

HHS official who spread Pizzagate conspiracy theory out at agency

A Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official who in 2016 used social media to spread the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory is reportedly out at the agency.

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Boys removed from Texas boarding home amid abuse claims

A Central Texas sheriff says eight boys have been removed from a boarding home as investigators determine whether they were illegally used as labor for a lawn care service and moving company.

Burnet County Sheriff Calvin Boyd said during a news conference Friday that investigators had received reports of abuse, human trafficking and other allegations at the Joshua Home near Bertram, northwest of Austin.

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