State should intervene in perilous foster care cases

There is an article on your website about a child who, police say, was shot and killed by his parents. He was shot after being reunified with his drug addicted and neglectful biological parents.


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Films Like ‘The Boss Baby’ Can Be Painful for Adoptees and Foster Kids

During family movie night some years ago, in an effort to spare my daughters’ delicate sensibilities, I lunged for the remote control to stifle “Jerry Maguire” during a sex scene I’d forgotten all about. What I managed to hit was the fast-forward button. What ensued onscreen might be described as high-speed porn.


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Wake senator leading charge to overhaul NC child welfare system

Saying North Carolina's child welfare system has failed too many youngsters for too long, Sen. Tamara Barringer, R-Wake, said Wednesday it's time to overhaul the system.

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BRPD: teen in custody after disturbance at group home

Baton Rouge Police Department's Special Response Team was called to a group home in the 1300 block of Main Street around 3 a.m. Wednesday morning.

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PARENTS FIGHT TO KEEP ADOPTED CHILD, TAKE CASE TO STATE SUPREME COURT

A couple isn't giving up their fight to keep the little girl they believe is their own.

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Foster mom chains, starves four-year-old girl accused of witchcraft

Women’s rights activist, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin , shared a video of a little girl who was allegedly accused of witchcraft.

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House Panel Supports Payment In Barahona Case

A House committee has approved paying $3.75 million as part of the settlement of a high-profile case in which a 10-year-old girl was found dead in the bed of a pickup truck along Interstate 95 and her twin brother was found with severe injuries from abuse.

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• State owes Barahona twin who survived horrific child abuse $3.75M. Maybe this year.

Testimony Underway In Trial Of Foster Father Accused Of Abusing Multiple Boys

The trial of a foster father — accused of predatory sexual abuse against multiple children — was underway with the young boys he allegedly raped being called to testify.

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• Long Island foster dad accused of sex abuse freely spoke about his genitals, 12-year-old boy he cared for testifies 
• FORMER FOSTER CHILDREN GIVE GRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF ALLEGED SEXUAL, EMOTIONAL ABUSE

Ambridge teacher charged with assaulting 10-year-old foster child

An Ambridge Area Senior High School art teacher is charged with assaulting his 10-year-old foster child, police said.
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Area residents protest child welfare practices

The two families who actually showed up Monday morning to protest in front of the Barren County Courthouse had their own sets of circumstances to work through with the state agency that investigates child abuse allegations, but their stories had one thing in common: They don't like the way the job has been done.

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State-sanctioned Ransom Should Have No Place in Child Welfare

The Philadelphia Department of Human Services did exactly as one might expect from an agency that takes away children at one of the highest rates of any big city in America, an agency where a case-worker union leader admits they break up families in order to protect themselves: It took away Rivera’s children and consigned them to foster care for 18 months.


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Foster Care System Overburdened

Officials say far fewer foster care placements are available in south-central Idaho than in the rest of the state, while the number of children removed from their homes is on the rise.

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Note: They're snatching too many kids rather than helping the families.

Profitable Pinwheel Gardens: Child Abuse Prevention Month 2017 is all about the Fundraisers

As we know, April is Child Abuse Propaganda Month.

• Proceeds will benefit The NYSPCC's Trauma Recovery and Safe Touches programs and help fund its counseling, legal and educational programs to prevent abuse and help more children and families heal.

And what would Child Abuse Propaganda Month be without the pretty blue pinwheels that are used to represent a child reported to CPS?

• Each pinwheel was removed from the ground with each donation of $20.

What most people don't realize though is that this month isn't really designed to help protect children from abuse or neglect.

• Businesses will also display baskets of ribbons alongside donations cans as well as sell larger cardstock blue ribbons for $1 that will be displayed.The agency is still looking for additional business willing to put out lapel pin baskets or sell cardstock ribbons.  Blue ribbon yard signs are also available for $10.

It's designed to raise money for the Child Protective Industry.

• Pinwheels are available for a $1 donation to Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana.

Although the theme or message of Child Abuse Propaganda Month is claimed to be to raise awareness about child abuse as they do need to get more people reporting potential child abuse in honor of job security...

• The group is looking to privately raise $2.6 million for a 5,000-square foot facility that includes interview rooms, observation rooms and temporary housing for children waiting to transfer to foster homes.

most of these events are designed to raise funds by selling pinwheels or food or tickets to a fun event for the whole family or whatever they can think up.

• Proceeds from the race will to the Dandelion Foundation, a Great Falls non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and family violence.
• The Mitchell Advisory Board is also selling blue bows for $10. Each bow sold will allow adults to receive a free Child Sexual Abuse Prevention training.

Any private or non governmental agency can join in the fun if they provide any type of service or have any contracts with the states Child Welfare Agencies.

• Maybe that’s why this year the greeters ran out of tickets and were using a sharpie to mark guests’ hands at the Nothing’s Sweeter Than a Child chocolate and dessert banquet and auction, a fundraiser for La Salle County Court Appointed Special Advocates.

And of course, you can give them your money and buy a pinwheel.

Perhaps it will make you feel important.  Like you made a difference or something.


Here are some more Child Abuse Propaganda Month events that you all should be out protesting.

• This month is Child Abuse Prevention Month
• Child abuse prevention block party rescheduled
• Chattanooga Police Department Participates In Child Abuse Prevention & Awareness Month
• ‘Pinwheels for Prevention’ draws attention to child abuse and neglect
• Kansans urged to wear blue to increase awareness of child abuse
• CASA Asking Community to Take Action Against Child Abuse
• April Is Child Abuse Prevention Month
• Pinwheels aim to raise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention month
• Volunteers turn Capitol blue to raise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention Month

SPECIAL REPORT: Sarah was loved at home, but abused in foster care

But the girl who has come to be known as ‘Sarah’ would suffer some of the most horrific sexual abuse, before the age of 12, in the foster home at the centre of the Government’s latest Commission of Inquiry into the ‘Grace’ case.

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Too young for juvie? California bill bars prosecution of kids under 12

On the cover a small boy in oversized jeans and a Tommy Hilfiger T-shirt stands on a plastic milk crate, too small to reach, as a police officer presses the young child’s ink-soaked fingertips onto a piece of paper.

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DCYF to spend $153k to clear overdue reviews

New Hampshire’s child protective service will spend an estimated $153,000, mostly on overtime for social workers, to clear a backlog of 2,800 overdue reviews of child abuse allegations, according to Maureen Ryan, interim director of the Division for Children, Youth and Families.

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Lawmakers seek answers from CPS over teen's death

Lawmakers, who have been pressing to fix Texas' troubled child-protection system, blasted agency officials on Monday for continuing to house foster care youths in state offices, saying they thought the practice had been stopped months ago.

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L.A. Board of Supes Considers Greater Accountability of Social Workers and Probation Officers

Tomorrow the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider a change to the county’s disciplinary review process that will they hope will hold county employees who work with vulnerable children to a higher standard.

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Australia's rate of Indigenous child removal 'unique', UN investigator says

Australia’s Indigenous incarceration rates are among the worst in the developed world but it is in the increasing rates of child removal that Australia stands out as being particularly behind other nations, the UN special rapporteur on Indigenous rights has said.

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Europe Turns Into Global Child Abuse Hub, Hosts 60% of Pages with Abuse Content

Europe has become the global child abuse hub for hosting the majority of images with the content of exploitation. A spokeswoman from NSPCC, meanwhile, voices the need to tackle the demand for the appalling material.

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Texas, a CPS office is no place to house a needy child

Some of Texas' most vulnerable children, children in such dire straits that the state is in charge of their wellbeing, are spending their nights sleeping in CPS offices. Not in the loving homes of well-trained caregivers. In offices. It's outright outrageous.

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• Girl’s death points to dangers of housing Texas foster kids in offices

Ex-Arkansas DHS employee accused of sexually assaulting 4-year-old foster child

A former Arkansas Department of Human Services employee is accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old foster child he transported for supervised visits with her sibling.

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Texas teen struck, killed by car after fleeing CPS office

A 15-year-old foster girl has been killed and another foster child injured when they were struck by a vehicle in Houston hours after running away from state offices where they were living.

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Police: Girls who escaped group home attack man in Goshen Township

According to police, the man was attacked early Monday morning by a group of girls who escaped the nearby Sharon Lynn Home for Girls


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• Two teenagers hit miles from state office where they slept

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