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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — They were often handcuffed, tethered together with plastic ties and allowed to soil themselves, investigators say. They had scars on their wrists. Some had burns. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291455,00.html None appeared to have more than a fourth-grade education,...

She blames ACS for kidnap Grandma says city screwups led daughter to swipe 6 kids BY ADAM EDELMAN DAILY NEWS WRITER Friday, August 3rd 2007, 4:00 AM http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/08/03/2007-08-03_she_blames_acs_for_kidnap-1.html

Parents protest foster care bill Privatization measure debated in state Senate Susan Vela Lansing State Journal http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070720/NEWS01/307200004 LANSING — The group was small but hoped it was persuasive. A handful of foster care parents and...

CPS ordered to pay $1.5 million in boy's death Elias C. Arnold The Arizona Republic Aug. 8, 2007 08:45 PM A jury in Maricopa County Superior Court this week awarded $1.5 million to the mother of a 9-year-old Litchfield Park boy who died after Child Protective Services twice investigated...

Agency Failed in Probing Child Abuse BY SARAH GARLAND - Staff Reporter of the Sun August 10, 2007 http://www.nysun.com/article/60222 The Administration for Children's Services will hire 100 new investigators with law enforcement backgrounds to help transform what a scathing study released...

Studied to death http://www.starbanner.com/article/20070809/OPINION/208090334/1008/OPINION Another child, another task force. Or maybe two. Last week, the 13-member Task Force on Child Protection, a group of judges, police and child welfare advocates appointed by Florida Department of Children...

Custody hearing today for foster parents' other children Associated Press - August 6, 2007 9:45 AM ET http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=6890935 BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) - A hearing is scheduled in southwest Ohio this afternoon to decide who'll get custody of David and Liz Carroll's four...

Mother tells how her daughter, 14, was lured into abusers’ clutches Lucy Bannerman Jackie is fixed to the computer screen, scrolling through pictures and profiles of her daughter’s 122 “friends�. There are three girls who, like Mandy, 16, are white, young and blonde. The rest of the...

Suffering from mistakes Act constructively on behalf of children http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070808/OPINION/708080524/1030 Courtney Clark and Kenia Valencia both suffered from mistakes made by adults who were supposed to help them. Courtney survived; Kenia did not.

Minnesota Children's Advocate Mike Tikkanen to Speak at UN August 13 http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-07-2007/0004641340&EDATE= MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twin Cities businessman and Minnetonka, MN resident, Michael Tikkanen, will...

Court fight over Mich. foster care system set for Tuesday August 6, 2007 http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070806/NEWS06/70806025/1002/BUSINESS01 By JACK KRESNAK FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

DYFS clips the wings of a boy's guardian angel Thursday, July 19, 2007 Good to see Armaun Cameron again. He's a tonic for anyone's blues. His smile was as broad and sunny as it's always been and, while the youngster might be locked in wrenchingly sad circumstances, he acted as if this were his...

Ken Schram: Help me fix the DSHS http://www.komotv.com/features/kenschram/8745047.html SEATTLE - How bad are things at DSHS? Bad enough for officials with the Pierce County Sheriff's Department to tell me that the agency is no where near doing what it should to protect children.

We need to create better futures for foster care youth Barbara BOXER http://www.insidebayarea.com/opinion/tribune/ci_6468122 Article Last Updated: 07/26/2007 05:48:14 AM PDT FOR MANY of the 513,000 children and teenagers in our foster care system, having a permanent "home" to grow up in is a...

Choosing Foster Parents over Fathers Jeffrey M. Leving and Glenn Sacks July 27, 2007 http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=33511 In the heartbreaking Melinda Smith case, a San Diego father and daughter were needlessly separated by the foster care system for over a...

A Call For Change by Joseph Sarandos Under "Parens Patriae," a concept of the laws, "The State" controls all children, "for their own protection" cause. This means there are no parents having more authority, And that there is no deference to genealogy.

Tucson Region CPS case files provide timeline of its efforts on behalf of 3 children Files document CPS efforts, failures By Josh Brodesky and Daniel Scarpinato arizona daily star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 08.01.2007 http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/194401

Family attorney Gregory Hession blows the whistle on state child protective services agencies By Bill Hahn Published: 2007-07-26 15:01 http://www.jbs.org/node/4844 Hession’s articles in The New American magazine confirms engagement of CPS agencies in deliberate, dirty tricks motivated by...

Emancipated Foster Youth Face Stiff Challenges Final Call, Q&A, Charlene Muhammad, Posted: Aug 08, 2007 http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=6bcb7659e053cdee1d6436ad8d6cd0fb Editor's Note: A bill sponsored by California Assemblywoman Karen Bass would have provided funding...

Mother tells how her daughter, 14, was lured into abusers’ clutches Lucy Bannerman http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2237941.ece Jackie is fixed to the computer screen, scrolling through pictures and profiles of her daughter’s 122 “friends�. There are three girls who, like...