Arizona CPS struggles continue

Arizona’s child-welfare agency continues to struggle with a record number of children in foster care and fields more reports of abuse and neglect than ever, according to new state data.

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Former CPS official files suit against Hunt County DA’s office

A Rockwall woman who was indicted following an investigation of the Hunt County Child Protective Services (CPS) office, connected with a case tied to the probe of the mother of a murdered Greenville teenager was dismissed and has filed suit against the Hunt County District Attorney’s Office and a former state investigator, alleging she was the victim of malicious prosecution.

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Alberta Wildrose party votes against parents inclusion in all education matters

Wildrose party members in Alberta have overwhelmingly voted down a motion to include parents in all issues related to a child’s education, including sexual identity or identification.

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Judge Criticizes Social Workers who backed Mom in Forcing Young boy to Dress as Girl

A British judge has ordered that a seven-year-old boy remain in his father's custody after living as a girl for two years while in his mother's care.

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Ottawa asks provinces to help reform First Nations child welfare

Liberals announce national discussions in wake of Human Rights ruling and Manitoba politicians slamming the current system.

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If you love institutionalizing kids, you'll hate child welfare reform in Connecticut

Connecticut, 1995: Emily Hernandez, a child-known-to-the-system, dies. Gov. John Rowland demands that caseworkers tear apart more families. There is a foster-care panic, a huge increase in children torn from their families. Children continue to die.

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Connecticut DCF routinely takes custody of kids with ‘specialized needs’

The state has taken custody of more than 860 children since 2011 because their families could not access or provide “specialized care” for their mental health or physical conditions, according to judicial department data.

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Sperm donor sued for child support after 16 years

A gay man who donated sperm to help a friend conceive two children has been sued for child support 16 years later.

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Subject of CPS investigation files $10 million libel suit against Fox News

William Andrew Rembis, subject of a recent Child Protective Services investigation here in Lubbock, has filed a $10 million lawsuit against the Fox News Network, claiming that his reputation has been "damaged irreparably."

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Alabama foster parents arrested, accused of beating 13-year-old special needs child

A Selma couple was arrested Thursday and charged with child abuse after their 13-year-old foster child with special needs came to school with "significant" bruising, police say.

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Grand Jury to meet on alleged abuses cases at Crockett facility

Houston Serenity Place in Crockett remains under investigation by several state agencies for alleged abuse and neglect of numerous foster children.

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Motherisk tests played role in 10 families where children taken, first phase of review finds

A review of the first 350 “high priority” child protection cases has found that discredited Motherisk alcohol and drug tests played a substantial role in 10 families where children were taken from parents and placed into foster or group homes.

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Children at Risk: Foster Children's Rights Ignored

Getting off a school bus, heading home for an afternoon snack and sitting down for homework.

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Foster Care Agency Hit With $5M Verdict Over Sex Abuse

Presbyterian Children's Village has been hit with a more than $5 million verdict for placing a child in a foster home where she was sexually abused, despite allegedly knowing that the foster home was being investigated for abuse allegations.

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• Montco Child Care Agency Must Pay $5.35 Million in Child Sex Abuse Case

Indiana Court Reinstates Case Against Child Agency

The Indiana Court of Appeals revived state Department of Child Services caseworkers' claims that the agency is understaffed, to the detriment of Hoosier State kids.

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Child protective services worker stabbed while conducting home visit

A child protective services worker was stabbed in the hand while making a home visit Tuesday, according to a person close to the incident.

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Foster parents abandoning troubled system

Washington state lost nearly one in five foster homes between 2008 and 2015 amid complaints of discord and disarray.

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Number of US foster kids rises; parents' drug abuse a factor

After dropping sharply between 2005 and 2012, the number of children in the U.S. foster care system has increased for a third year in a row, according to new federal data released Thursday. A major factor: Worsening substance abuse by parents.

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• Heroin Hitting Kids: How the epidemic is changing child welfare

Ending poverty as reason to apprehend kids

The federal government is considering a policy that prevents poverty from being used as a reason to take children from their parents.

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Protective services chief proposes pay raise for CPS staff

The commissioner of the state's Department of Family and Protective Services has proposed giving $12,000 raises to each Child Protective Services caseworker, supervisor and administrator.

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Foster care agency addresses concerns

A special task force of state police dispatched to quickly locate 511 children identified as being at "the highest risk" for abuse or neglect located the first 26 children Thursday, as child protection caseworkers tracked down another 134.

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• Texas State Police Tapped to Help CPS Locate 2,800 Children
• State police fan out to find 2,800 missing foster-care kids

Foster mom convicted of murder wants release

A Cherokee County foster mother convicted of killing a 2-year-old family member in 2013 is asking a federal court to determine she is being illegally imprisoned, court records show.

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Man adopted by US couple as a child to be deported to South Korea after 37 years

A South Korean man who was adopted by an American family when he was three years old is expected to be deported after immigration judge John O'Dell ruled against relief that would have allowed him to remain in the US.

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Kansas Supreme Court won't consider case of Statehouse protesters the Schwabs

The Kansas Supreme Court has declined to hear the case of Raymond and Amelia Schwab — two Colorado residents who protested on the steps of the Statehouse for six weeks this spring — bringing an end to their legal saga in state courts.

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Angelina Jolie 'also to be investigated for child abuse' after Brad Pitt allegations

US website TMZ claimed that the LA County Department of Children and Family Services are not only looking at the plane row between Maddox and Brad, which initially triggered authorities' involvement.

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