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Patience wrote: Ron wrote: Thanks for the link. fx just does not get it, and no amount of facts or where they come from will change that. Ron Data comparison on this issue is pointless. Who has abused a child is relevant ONLY to the bean counters who are doling out the dollars...

Overhaul overdue for Child Protective Services By Billy D. Brown / Landers Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:05 AM PDT http://www.hidesertstar.com/articles/2007/09/22/editorial/opinion5.txt On Aug. 1, 2007, I watched in absolute horror as Child Protective Services swept five little, innocent...

Foster care lawyers taking state back to court http://www.komotv.com/news/9883317.html By Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Washington state's foster care system is heading back to court, with lawyers for a group of foster kids saying the state hasn't done enough to make promised...

After Social Worker Closes Case, Family ‘Spreads the Word!’ http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/co/200709210.asp The Boda family was quite alarmed when they received a visit from a Grand Junction social worker. However, they would not allow the social worker in their home, and did not comply with...

Human Trafficking Evokes Outrage, Little Evidence U.S. Estimates Thousands of Victims, But Efforts to Find Them Fall Short http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/22/AR2007092201401.html By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 23, 2007; A01 Outrage was...

Miss Carbonell goes to Washington http://www.santamariatimes.com/articles/2007/09/21/news/news02.txt By Jennifer Best/Times Correspondent As a foster child, Joscelynn Carbonell heard all the assumptions. “People say foster children are troublemakers, thieves, promiscuous, that they use...

Critics call for CPS changes 05:06 PM MST on Monday, August 20, 2007 By PAUL DAVENPORT / Associated Press Writer http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/kmsb-20070820-apjc-criticscall.53aa05a9.html PHOENIX (AP) -- Critics have called for sweeping changes in state Child Protective...

Foster mother pleads guilty to assaulting child By Christine Clarridge http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003900115_webfostermom25m.html Seattle Times staff reporter A woman who burned her foster daughter's tongue with a heated fork, beat her feet with dumbbells and stuck a...

Murder by Cajun seasoning? That's what Texas jury found in mother's life sentence Posted: September 23, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57764 © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com A mother of five is serving a life sentence in the death of a 4-year-old

Murder by Cajun seasoning? That's what Texas jury found in mother's life sentence Posted: September 23, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57764 © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com A mother of five is serving a life sentence in the death of a 4-year-old

DCF consultant leaves laptop, containing confidential info, for car thieves By Don Michak, Journal Inquirer 09/21/2007 http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18840780&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=161556&rfi=6 Another computer containing sensitive state information has been reported...

DCFS doublespeak endangers Utah's children By Richard Wexler Article Last Updated: 09/22/2007 01:08:48 PM MDT http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_6971299 Try to imagine the trauma for a young child. He's suddenly taken from everyone he knows and loves by the state child protection agency. Perhaps...

Hospitalized Boy's Relatives Blast Foster System Mother: Child Shouldn't Have Made It To Pool http://www.theindychannel.com/news/14195364/detail.html POSTED: 8:13 pm EDT September 24, 2007 UPDATED: 8:35 pm EDT September 24, 2007 INDIANAPOLIS -- Relatives of a 3-year-old boy who was found...

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Report: Problems Exist In Omaha Tribal Welfare System http://www.ktiv.com/News/index.php?ID=17261 Nebraska's Department of Health and Human Services joint review of the agency focused on their placement...

Judge: social workers ‘conspired’ to destroy the Airborne Initiative By John Bynorth Officials accused of wrecking successful project young offenders’ scheme they deemed...

Lawmaker rejects prosecutor's request to close CPS hearing http://www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/KMSB_20070924_apab_cpshearing.108ac482c.html 08:39 PM MST on Monday, September 24, 2007 By Paul Davenport / Associated Press Writer PHOENIX (AP) -- A legislative committee chairman on...

CYFD: Bomb suspect has history of standoffs http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/68115.html By JASON AUSLANDER | The New Mexican September 7, 2007 School, businesses close during man’s third incident with CYFD Police disarmed an “incendiary device� Friday after a 15-hour standoff

Foster mother tortured girl for years Woman pleads guilty, could face 14 years in prison http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/333013_mother25.html By SCOTT GUTIERREZ P-I REPORTER A Federal Way woman who punished her foster daughter by jabbing hypodermic needles into the girl's eyes and smashing...

CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE DENIED VISITS TO PARENTS NW Budget Clampdown, Minister Accuses Support Workers of Rorts Peg Putt MHA Tuesday, 25th September 2007 http://tas.greens.org.au/News/view_MR.php?ActionID=2573 For Comment: State Parliamentary Offices of the Tasmanian Greens, (03) 6233 8300

osmoses Sep 22, 12:55 am Newsgroups: alt.adoption From: osmoses Local: Sat, Sep 22 2007 12:55 am Subject: What's all the reporter crap, fx? Okay, we get it. Foster kids have been abused. You know, I got sick of reading about foster kids being abused. Sick of...