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Foster child complained about treatment in care Neal Hall, Vancouver Sun Published: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=07b520c4-e962-4f57-8ff7-8f4988d2d8d5&k=96444 PRINCE GEORGE -- A jury at a coroner's inquest heard shocking allegations Tuesday...

She was Ted Klaudt's favorite foster child, a girl he considered a real daughter. And she says the father figure violated her. http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=0,62623 The now-19-year-old woman, identified by the initials A.M., spent much of the day on the witness stand in the...

Is gov's office telling firm to defy subpoena? MAHAJAN CASE | Audit hasn't been fully disclosed November 1, 2007 BY ERIC HERMAN Criminal Courts Reporter http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/630511,CST-NWS-fraud01.article Four months after receiving a subpoena for the...

Expert Cites CPS Shortcomings In Policy Review November 1st, 2007 @ 10:18pm by Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. - A national child welfare expert who reviewed Arizona's Child Protective Services policies and practices after three deaths took Arizona CPS workers to task for thin information and...

Mom of four: 'No one advocates for me' Domestic battery victim seeks to regain custody of her four children http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/news/630391,5_1_WA01_WANTKIDS_S1.article November 1, 2007 By FRANK ABDERHOLDEN Bruised and battered last July by her...

Saint Irenaeus says, "Human life was born for a Special Reason, a Special Goal, and within human life, it was presented a Soul at the moment of conception. Some might say, 'What purpose is a Soul if you cannot see It, cannot feel It?' Logic says, the Soul, as a Portion of The Creator, instilled...

==An Inconvenient Truth about Child Protective Services, Foster care, and ==the Child Protection "INDUSTRY" == ==CPS Does not protect children... Your rabid campaign against those whose job it is to protect children makes it all too obvious that you are an incompetent and/or brutal...

The ID Theft You Haven't Heard of...Yet http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/money/id-theft-0807 or http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/print-this/money/id-theft-0807 They're not just going on shopping sprees anymore. Now thieves are using your personal info (or your child's) to get a job, buy a house,...

Is this doctor responsible for parents being falsely branded as child abusers? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490025&in_page_id=1770 by SUE REID - More by this author » Last updated at 00:55am on 27th October 2007 Lawrence Alexander suffered a...

Confessions of a professional parent http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1025/p09s01-coop.html Try explaining to a foster child that you're paid well to raise him. By Mary Callahan from the October 25, 2007 edition It may seem like a no-brainer to say that foster parents should be well

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...

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...

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...

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 /...

Richard Wexler, Alexandria, Letter: Foster care misused and overused in N.D. http://www.in-forum.com/Opinion/articles/181835 Published Friday, October 26, 2007 However hard his own childhood may have been, it is no excuse for Lawrence P. Adams to distort federal data to defend the indefensible:...

Unknowns of adoption http://www.sptimes.com/2007/10/25/State/Unknowns_of_adoption.shtml Lack of disclosure about children's problems and lack of help often lead to trouble. By NICOLE HUTCHESON, Times Staff Writer Published October 25, 2007

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

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

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...