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Is 'The Club' Stealing America's Children? or Hang on to Your Kids, the County Needs Money! By John Waters Jr. http://www.michael-smith.org/Article2.html One Saturday morning early last summer in a small room in the middle of Southern California's playground of the rich and famous, the Coachella...

World Experts Demand End to Child Drugging in the US - Part I http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/01509/child-drugging.html Washington, DC: On October 12, 2007, experts in the field of psychiatry and child development from all over the world arrived in Washington to attend the annual...

World Experts Demand End to Child Drugging in the US - Part II http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/01510/child-drugging-fda.html Washington, DC: Mathy Milling Downing was a featured speaker at the annual conference of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and...

THE CORRUPT BUSINESS OF CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES BY: Nancy Schaefer Senator, 50th District http://www.senatornancyschaefer.com/ My introduction into child protective service cases was due to a grandmother in an adjoining state who called me with her tragic story. Her two granddaughters...

CPS hides details about slain girl, 12 http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1201roberts1201.html Dec. 1, 2007 12:00 AM After waiting weeks to find out whether Child Protective Services did what it could to protect a 12-year-old Phoenix girl murdered last month, the agency has...

The Unintended Consequences of Child Protection Laws Grandparents Are the Only Hope Some Children May Have By Christine Korn http://www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?content_type=article&content_type_id=78386 Grandparents can make the difference. There is a growing number of children...

Supreme Court won't hear 'caged kids' custody appeal http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/2929201 Associated Press WAKEMAN -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the custody appeal of two parents convicted of abusing some of their 11 adopted, special-needs children and making them sleep in...

Forced vaccinations should elicit hue and cry Reporter Editor: Article Launched: 12/02/2007 07:34:05 AM PST http://www.thereporter.com/letters/ci_7617473 I am writing to express my outrage that incidents of "gunpoint medicine" were not published in The Reporter. Consider this scenario: Children...

Mom, grandmother get probation in scalding of boy http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/crime/stories/DN-babydeath_27net.ART0.North.Edition1.41fd7f1.html Dallas: Mom, grandmother of boy could face more jail time 12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, October 27, 2007 By JENNIFER EMILY /...

Family files claim against CPS for toddler's death By Crystal Carreon - Published 6:54 pm PDT Friday, October 26, 2007 http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/456452.html Tamekca Walker, 34, was arraigned Friday in Sacramento County Superior Court on charges of felony assault...

Suit Says Baby's Seizure Violated Rights http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-7025606,00.html Friday October 26, 2007 3:01 AM By ANNA JO BRATTON Associated Press Writer

DCF Employees Allegedly Used Tax Money For Personal Purchases POSTED: 5:53 pm EDT October 10, 2007 http://www.wftv.com/news/14313194/detail.html ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Eyewitness News discovered some top managers at the Department of Children and Families are in trouble, but this time it has...

Foster mother accused of killing toddler http://www.koaa.com/news/view.asp?ID=9070 A local 2 year old girl is dead, allegedly killed at the hands of her foster mother. Jules Cuneo is being held without bond on first degree murder charges. Alize Vick was pronounced dead Wednesday at Memorial...

Update: Nine year-old dies in group suicide; Mother blames Child Protective Services http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=82400 Lambrini Lukidis Created: 10/17/2007 11:54:02 PM Updated: 10/18/2007 12:09:12 AM

Mother, grandmother on trial for not getting help for burned toddler http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/102407dnmetdeadbaby.31f8a63.html 12:18 AM CDT on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 By JENNIFER EMILY / The Dallas Morning News

Court rules social workers must follow law Agencies, cops can't threaten to take kids away from parents asserting rights http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58338 A federal court has ruled that social workers have to respect the U.S. Constitution regarding privacy and parental...

Albuquerque girl testifies against foster father By Joline Gutierrez Krueger (Contact) Originally published 07:45 a.m., October 25, 2007 Updated 10:57 a.m., October 25, 2007 http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/oct/25/albuquerque-girl-testifies-against-foster-father/ The words came hard, the...

Attorney: CPS dropped the ball in kid cocaine case http://www.khou.com/news/local/crime/stories/khou071026_jj_cocainetoddlersparents.1ac21450f.html 06:07 PM CDT on Friday, October 26, 2007 By Jason Whitely / 11 News Inside apartment 46, at a northwest Houston complex, police say they...

CPS Accused of Negligence in Foster Child's Death http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=34369 Written by Mark Hedlund, Reporter Mark Hedlund's Report, 10/25/07

State reverses decision to fire social workers By Valarie Honeycutt Spears http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/236426.html The state has reversed its preliminary decision to fire Hardin County-based social workers who were accused in an Inspector General’s report of...