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Special Report - A Parent's Rights http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8349522 INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - The birth of a baby should be one of the most exciting moments a couple will ever experience. But an aggressive campaign by the state to screen newborn infants turned that moment into a...

With no 'Sarah,' CPS asks to drop her case Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5791129.html SAN ANGELO — It was the call for help that launched one of the largest raids on a religious compound in U.S. history.

Foster mom gets prison for beating kids http://www.kptm.com/Global/story.asp?S=8351699&nav=menu606_2 Associated Press - May 20, 2008 9:25 AM ET FREMONT, Neb. (AP) - A Fremont woman who used a back scratcher to beat her foster children has been sent to prison. A Dodge County district judge gave...

Campaign stands up for foster children's plight Exhibit of cardboard cutouts represents their struggles http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/363605_foster19.html By JUDY HOLLAND P-I WASHINGTON BUREAU WASHINGTON -- Life-size cardboard cutouts of children will start springing up on the National...

Protection Racket They didn’t do it for the children. By Timothy Lynch http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGQzZjkwNTM3NjI0NGU1NDQyMWI0YjYyM2NlODAzZmI= Court proceedings are underway in Texas to sort out the controversial seizure of 465 children from the religious sect near Eldorado. A Texas...

Riverview Man Arrested, Charged With Falsifying DCF Records By HOWARD ALTMAN and MIKE WELLS http://brandonnews2.tbo.com/content/2008/may/22/tampa-man-arrested-charged-falsifying-dcf-records/ The Tampa Tribune Published: May 22, 2008

N. CAROLINA TO PAY $23.8M TO RESOLVE OVERBILLING ALLEGATIONS FOR STATES FOSTER CARE & CHILDCARE SERVICES http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pjus/is_200309/ai_1007958931 WASHINGTON, D.C. - North Carolina has agreed to pay the United States $23.8 million to resolve multiple allegations of...

State Investigates Foster Care Agency for Over billing http://www.kmtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8371878 Omaha, NE - The Nebraska State Patrol and the Department of Health and Human Services are investigating Sigma Treatment Foster Care in Omaha for alleged over billing. A spokesperson for HHS...

Foster Mother’s Pain Patch Is Believed Responsible in 6-Year-Old Girl’s Death http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/nyregion/20patch.html?ref=nyregion By AL BAKER Published: May 20, 2008 A foster mother in Harlem has been arrested and accused of accidentally killing a 6-year-old girl in her...

Mom says state using her IQ, lawsuit to keep kids in foster care By DEBORAH CIRCELLI Staff writer http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/EastVolusia/evlHEAD01EAST052008.htm DAYTONA BEACH -- Brightly colored shirts and lacy dresses hang still in a packed closet, where they've...

YFZ Children Lived in Separate Homes By Donald Richter http://www.truthwillprevail.org/ Ever since the raid on the YFZ community last month, news reports and reader comments have referred to the FLDS children taken into custody as having been part of a communal living arrangement or a...

An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and the Child Protection "INDUSTRY" CPS Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of Child Protective Services. every parent should read this .pdf...

"An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and the Child Protection "INDUSTRY" Child Protective Services Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of Child Protective Services. every parent...

Foster mom accused of severe neglect http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S443250.shtml?cat=300 TROY - A Lansingburgh woman is charged with child endangerment after police say she spent years abusing her foster child. The 11-year-old boy is now in protective custody, but only after what police...

Investigator: Move boys' group home from drug-ridden Lauderhill area With crime and drugs, neighborhood said to be unsafe for troubled teen boys By Jon Burstein | South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 17, 2008 http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbimpact0517sbmay17,0,3232252.story

R.I. woman convicted of killing 3-year-old nephew http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/x101651547/R-I-woman-convicted-of-killing-3-year-old-nephew By RAY HENRY The Associated Press Posted May 16, 2008 @ 05:00 PM PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A woman who beat her 3-year-old nephew after she came home from...

An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and the Child Protection "INDUSTRY" Child Protective Services Does not protect children... It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even killed at the hands of CPS. every parent should read the free...

America's Courts: Threatens us in ways you never imagined. Melinda Pillsbury-Foster http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/62369 May 20, 2008 Government views you as a source of income. You need to know that to protect yourself. More people are learning every day that at every point where...

Veil of secrecy must be lifted from CPS http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2008/05/18/opinion/editorials/doc482e06dda4ec8797865100.txt By Rick Schneider, Publisher Published on Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:40 PM MST Three bills are winding their way through the legislative process that will bring much...

Who's Kids Are They Anyway? By Mike Gallagher http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MikeGallagher/2008/05/23/whos_kids_are_they_anyway?page=full&comments=true I'm not sure that I have ever been so relieved to see a headline. "Court Rules Removal of Children From FLDS Compound was Illegal."