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About 30% of children in foster care have severe emotional, behavioral, or developmental problems. National CPS News Archive
Send Kidjacked news and information about what's happening nationally and we'll include it in our coverage. We invite you to check our CPS news section. (Scroll down for National news.) [Additional National Resources]
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A Nation in Crisis
by Nancee Crowell
Nancee Crowell, California and Nevada State Director of 'National Foster Parent Coalition for Allegation Reform' responds to an article written by Craig Schneider regarding Georgia CPS, expressing her outrage at the treatment of parents by Child Protection Agencies
Kidjacked
May 25, 2008
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Just Who's Abusing Whom?
by Annette M. Hall
Today in America, 935 children were forcibly removed from their home and entered the national foster care system.
Kidjacked
May 25, 2008
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Grandmother Says Babysitter Took Caylee
ORLANDO, Fla. -- It's the beginning of a new week, but Caylee remains missing.
A $125,000 reward offered by the Never Lose Hope Foundation, Skyview Aviation and Skyview Exotic Rental was set on Monday night for the child's safe return. Similar billboards have been used in the hopes of finding Trenton Duckett and Jennifer Kesse.
Orlando News
July 22, 2008
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Foulston meets angry mothers
by Roy Wenzl
The three mothers who showed up at Nola Foulston's office on Wednesday came to complain that their kids had been abused, falsely accused and neglected while in state custody.
Foulston, the Sedgwick County district attorney, had invited them so she could answer their questions, and because she's still angry about Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services director Don Jordan saying recently that her office "bullied" SRS workers into putting information into court documents that they don't believe.
The Wichita Eagle (KS)
July 03, 2008
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Children Pulled From Garbage Packed Home In Sonora
by BJ Hansen
Sonora, Ca -- George and Jeannie Eaton of the 100 block of Tidwall St. in Sonora have been charged with Child Endangerment after police officers discovered the horrific living conditions they subjected their nine and 11 year old boys too.
The Eaton's would not allow a social worker to enter the home Monday evening, so officers were dispatched. Inside the home they found trash bags full of rotting garbage, in some places stacked five feet tall.
My Mother Lode (CA)
July 08, 2008
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Foster care in Franklin County
by Charles Boothe
Jennifer Harris wants to send a message that kids are not "born bad," and sometimes all they need is for someone to show they care.
Although foster care officials try to place children as close to their routine environment as possible, there are only 19 foster families in Franklin County.
The Franklin News-Post
May 19, 2008
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Flora Jessop: The Troubled Woman Who Cost Texas $14 Million, and Hundreds of Innocent People Their Peace and Safety
by Gary D. Naler
Flora Jessop, the outspoken media favorite and determined critic of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS), has had the advantage and luxury of accruing audiences who want to believe her.
Flora's days of unaccountability have come to an end. She has now been instrumental in causing the state of Texas to carry out an illegal invasion on an entire community at a cost to the state of $14 million, and has hurt so many innocent people that these silent ones who know her well, are finally speaking out.
News Release Wire
July 01, 2008
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Las Vegas Targeted in FBI Child Prostitution Crackdown
The FBI announced a major child prostitution bust with links to Las Vegas. At least 65 people have been arrested.
Las Vegas was one of 16 cities across the country targeted in Operation Cross Country. Reno was also hit. 14 people were arrested there with one child being taken into protective custody.
Las Vegas Now (NV)
June 25, 2008
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Parents Arrested For Son's Death in SUV in Court
by Ky Plaskon
The parents of a 4-year-old found dead in their SUV after being left there for 17 hours got a first look at the murder charges against them. Emotions have been strong concerning this story.
On June 9, Colleen Rimer called the non-emergency line of Metro. Her disabled child was dead after being left in their car for 17 hours. The Rimers' four other children are now in the custody of CPS. Both sides are expected to push for a grand jury in this case to protect the identity of some of the children who will be asked to testify.
Las Vegas Now (NV)
June 27, 2008
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More information on arrest of county worker
by Abigail Goldman
New information about the arrest of Clark County Senior Family Service Specialist Deborah Ann Edmonston has surfaced - though there are still several questions to be answered.
Edmonston, who was charged with two counts of battery with a deadly weapon related to domestic violence, child endangerment and malicious destruction of private property, was driving her 14-year-old daughter to her father's house and pulled the girl by her hair back into the car when she tried to get out.
Las Vegas Sun
June 27, 2008
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TV report: County worker arrested
Channel 8 News is reporting that a Clark County Senior Family Service Specialist has been arrested
Deborah Ann Edmonston has been charged with two counts of battery with a deadly weapon related to domestic violence, child endangerment and malicious destruction of private property.
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
June 26, 2008
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Report blasts juvenile group-home care
by Jan Moller
Louisiana's oversight of private group homes for abused and neglected children is inadequate, and conditions are often abysmal in facilities that are charged with caring for some of the state's most vulnerable residents.
The litany of problems in group homes investigated by the Advocacy Center ranges from poorly trained staff and shoddy facilities to a failure to provide adequate medical and dental care. And the state rarely punishes homes that run afoul of state regulations.
NOLA
June 24, 2008
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Parental Rights Organizations Across the Nation Will Encroach on U.S. Capitol for Civil Rights Event
Children's and Parent's Rights organizations from across the nation are scheduled to encroach on Washington DC this August 15th & 16th at the Upper Senate Park.
They say they are doing it because government policies do not reflect what is truly best for children and good parents. "Where we have a government that thinks it has the apparent authority to confiscate children at will, as we can see from the recent issues in Texas earlier this year, something needs to be done." Holland stated.
Salem News
July 02, 2008
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California and Homeschool Liberty:A Companion Post
On Monday, June 23, the Court of Appeal in Los Angeles held oral arguments for the rehearing in the In re Rachel L homeschooling/abuse case in California.
The arguments were long (two and a half hours in a hot courtroom) and thorough. The judges asked lots of questions, with some consistent themes. As soon as you thought you had one judge pegged as to how he or she was thinking, he or she would ask another question that made you wonder about your prior conclusion. They were reasonably generous about letting people finish their presentations or points even if they ran over a little on time.
The Full-Quiver Homeschool House
July 01, 2008
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The Business of Child Stealing in Florida
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
American taxpayers fund a racket that wrenches the stomach. That is CPS. Some of those involved claim their are just following orders, others just pocket the bounty on children wrenched from their parent's arms.
We are going to take you behind the lies into the ugly truth that is destroying families for profit every day, in every community across America. You won't want to believe it but when you see their faces, hear their voices, you will understand why this is happening and what it means to your own life, even if you don't have children.
Nolan Chart
June 28, 2008
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I Am Not My Brother's Keeper -- And Neither Are You
by Joel Turtel
Maybe three percent of the adult population become addicted gamblers. Yet private gambling is illegal in most cities and states, except for government gambling schemes called lotteries.
Why do politicians we elect presume they can destroy our rights because some people are idiots who can't control themselves? What right do they have to punish you and violate your rights because of the stupidity or illegal acts of others? They have no such right. Mankind fought for over a thousand years in England, starting with Magna Carta, to create and defend fundamental legal principles that protect liberty against government tyranny.
Public School Menace
June 28, 2008
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Waiver of death penalty sought in 3-year-old's killing; Life in prison option
by Elizabeth Wright
Kashon Scott, 30, a Lee County man charged with beating a toddler to death last year, will be back in court today as his defense asks for a waiver of the death penalty in the case.
If Scott were to be convicted of the first-degree murder charge he faces in the death of 3-year-old Zahid Jones last year, both the death penalty and life in prison are possible sentences.
Cape Coral Daily Breeze
June 27, 2008
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CPS noted girl's injuries in 2007 case
by Technical Lead: Jeremy Osborn
A 3-year-old Fair Oaks girl beaten to death this year had been monitored by Sacramento County's Child Protective Services, which recorded her injuries and chronic medical problems before the case was closed fewer than six months before her death.
Valeeya Brazile died Feb. 5 at Mercy San Juan Medical Center from a severe beating to her stomach. But the coroner also found that the little girl, who would have turned 4 in April, was the victim of battered child syndrome and had suffered numerous injuries over time.
Sacramento Bee (CA)
June 27, 2008
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Waits Plague Transfers of Children to Relatives' Care
by Erik Eckholm
HYATTSVILLE, Md. -- When child welfare officials in Washington removed five young children from their parents' home in May, relatives in this Washington suburb quickly stepped in, offering to share guardianship.
If the relatives had lived in Washington, they might have gained custody of the children within days, after a quick check on their suitability. Instead, the children were put in a foster home, where they could remain for months while their relatives wait for Washington and Maryland to make formal requests, home inspections and approvals.
The New York Times (MD)
June 27, 2008
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Napolitano signs bill allowing access to child-welfare cases
by Amanda J. Crawford
The governor signed into law Tuesday a package of bills that will give the public and the media unprecedented access to records in child-welfare cases and state employee files.
The bills were crafted in the wake of legislative hearings on the deaths of three Tucson children involved with the state's Child Protective Services agency. The new laws make some court proceedings, CPS case records and employee disciplinary records available to the public.
The Arizona Republic
June 22, 2008
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Father convicted in disabled girl's scalding death
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The father of a disabled girl who died after she was scalded in a bathtub was convicted of murder for failing to seek medical help for her for more than a week.
Prosecutors acknowledged the injury was accidental but said the couple's failure to seek prompt medical attention amounted to murder. Four other children who lived in the house were turned over to child welfare authorities.
The Associated Press
June 27, 2008
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Girl Sues Dad over Grounding -- and Wins
A Canadian court ruled last week that the father of a 12-year-old girl had no right to ground his daughter for disobeying orders to stay off the Internet.
The girl had taken her father to Quebec Superior Court after he refused to allow her to go on a school trip for chatting on websites he tried to block, and then posting "inappropriate" pictures of herself online using a friend's computer.
San Francisco Examiner (Canada)
June 23, 2008
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For kids in B.C. care, jail a more likely future than graduation
by Lori Culbert
Children in government care are more likely to be charged with a crime than they are to finish high school, says troubling new research by B.C.'s representative for children and youth.
Preliminary findings from a study by Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond indicate that 44% of adolescents receiving services from the Ministry of Children and Family Development end up facing criminal charges. And 36% of kids in care are going to jail, despite the trend of fewer youth being incarcerated each year in B.C.
The Vancouver Sun (Canada)
June 27, 2008
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Girl, 14, kills baby at school
A 14-year-old girl has been arrested and charged with murder after she allegedly killed her newborn baby in a school bathroom.
Baytown, Texas, police said the eighth-grade student submerged the 7 pound infant in a Cedar Bayou Junior School toilet and jammed toilet paper down his throat so he wouldn't cry. The baby also suffered blunt trauma to his head and neck, according to a Harris County autopsy.
World Net Daily
June 27, 2008
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Foster care worker pleads guilty to forgery charge
A foster care consultant for the state DHSS has pleaded guilty to charges she offered to rush would-be foster parents' paperwork through for an extra $4,000 using documents she had forged.
Savanah Woods, 53, of Southfield admitted to one count of forgery, a 14-year felony, and one count of misconduct in office, a 5-year felony, in exchange for a $15,000 fine and five years of probation, according to state Attorney General Mike Cox.
Oakland County News
June 04, 2008
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O.C. mom spends '30 Days' in a different lifestyle
by Peter Larsen
It only takes Kati Blackledge a minute or two to make her stand perfectly clear on tonight's episode of "30 Days" on the FX network. "I believe that same-sex parenting just shouldn't be happening..."
Blackledge, herself an adopted child, as well as the mother to two adopted sons. And then to get the action going, she packs her bags to travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., where she'll live for 30 days with Dennis and Tom Patrick, a gay couple raising four adopted sons.
Orange County Register
June 23, 2008
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Federal Way man arrested after son burns to death in backyard fire pit
by Leslie Anne Jones
A Federal Way man who said he fell asleep near a backyard fire pit and woke to find his infant son burned to death has been arrested for investigation of first-degree manslaughter.
Police were trying to determine what exactly led up to the 7-month-old's death, which was reported at 12:02 a.m. Sunday after the infant was pulled from the fire pit. Police said the baby suffered burns to his entire body.
The Seattle Times
June 25, 2008
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State's child-welfare system must do better by minority kids
by Cheryl Stephani
Last July, the General Accountability Office (GAO) released a national study that found that in 2004, African-American children were more than twice as likely to enter foster care as were white children.
The federal study also found that, on average, African-American children stayed in foster care about nine months longer. According to the study, Native-American children were also overrepresented in the foster-care system. Both groups also had poorer outcomes than their white peers.
The Seattle Times
June 19, 2008
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Foster Care Report
The Ricky Holland case exposed a number of gaps in Michigan's foster care system. A system that has been under close scrutiny ever since.
But a new report is offering some ways to fix some of those problems. It's counting on the judicial system to lead the way. In courtrooms across the state, Judges are making decisions that affect the lives of thousands of foster children. Ingham County Judge Richard Garcia says it's a job that is often complicated and takes time.
WLNS News
June 25, 2008
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Michigan is letting down its foster kids
The breakdown last month of settlement talks in a federal class-action lawsuit against Michigan's foster care system is unacceptable.
Michigan children abused and neglected in their families are likely to be no safer in foster care, concluded John Goad, who reviewed the deaths of five foster children. Goad, former director of child protective services in Illinois, said in the February AP story that he found serious shortcomings in how DHS is structured and managed.
South Bend Tribune
June 25, 2008
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Group calls for investigation into SRS
A group of citizens are calling for a state investigation into the Sedgwick County District Attorney's office and the Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services.
Head of SRS was recorded saying the DA's office bullied social workers into falsifying court documents. [Video News]
KSN News
June 19, 2008
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Advocacy group seeks resignation of Kansas SRS chief
A national child protection organization demanded the resignation of the head of the Kansas child welfare agency after he backed off a secretly recorded statement in which he accused prosecutors of bullying his caseworkers in sworn affidavits.
Don Jordan, secretary of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, wrote in an opinion column published Thursday in The Wichita Eagle that he did not know of any instance in which social workers committed perjury or misrepresented the facts in court documents used to remove children from their families.
The Wichita Eagle (KS)
June 19, 2008
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Replace Whole System, Not Just SRS Secretary
by Richard Wexter
An Eagle editorial said that if Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services Secretary Don Jordan "is making false claims and pandering, he should be replaced." ("Bullied? Get to bottom of Jordan's claims," June 10 Opinion).
Actually, if Sedgwick County Deputy District Attorney Ron Paschal was quoting Jordan accurately ("Concerns arise over SRS files' validity," June 8 Eagle), we already know Jordan is making false claims -- we just don't know which claim was false.
The Wichita Eagle (KS)
June 12, 2008
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