Frequently Asked Questions 1) What is "alt.parenting.spanking?" Alt.parenting.spanking is a newsgroup on Usenet. Usenet is a text based system of distributing postings in a group accessible format, which predates the more recent World Wide Web by many years. Some Usenet newsgroups are moderated,...

Accused nurse gives up license By MELISSA VARGAS Star-Telegram staff writer http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/176365.html The state Board of Nurse Examiners has suspended the license of a 52-year-old vocational nurse who is under investigation by police in North Richland Hills and...

CPS lifts cone of silence in Tucson children's murder http://www.azcentral.com/news/columns/articles/0721roberts0721.html Jul. 21, 2007 12:00 AM Child Protective Services briefly lifted its cone of silence this week and out slid an interesting scrap of information before the thing clanged back...

Justices uphold Merit board clout in firing of DYFS worker Tuesday, July 17, 2007 BY KATE COSCARELLI Star-Ledger Staff http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-7/118464650689780.xml&coll=1 In a ruling affecting tens of thousands of public employees in New Jersey, the state Supreme Court...

DeLeon faces sentencing Friday KXLY.com Staff Last updated: Friday, July 20th, 2007 08:35:54 AM http://www.kxly.com/news/?sect_rank=1&section_id=559&story_id=12978 SPOKANE -- In a plea deal that's drawn anger and criticism, on Friday a Stevens County woman who originally faced murder charges...

Soldier, Father Charged In Foster Care Investigation http://www.nbc5i.com/news/13721653/detail.html PALESTINE, Texas -- An Army soldier back from Iraq and his father are charged with sexually assaulting two children who were among at least 50 foster care cases the family has boarded, police...

Missing-child report pins bulk of blame on agency By MELANIE AVE Published July 18, 2007 http://www.sptimes.com/2007/07/18/State/Missing_child_report_.shtml The foster girl's caseworker may have been the one who failed to report her missing to Florida law enforcement for four months.

Agencies in denial as children pay price of panic Originally posted on July 19, 2007 http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/OPINION/70718084/1015 if the people in charge of child welfare in Southwest Florida were as good at running the system as they are at making excuses...

Foster parents' fitness in question BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER Before 2-year-old Courtney Clark went missing from foster care for four months -- and before she was found in a Wisconsin home with an 11-year-old torture victim and a woman's body buried in the backyard -- state...

1 Cuban girl in exile, 2 dads In the first public hearing on the fate of a 4-year-old girl whose father wants her to return to Cuba, a frustrated judge called for calm. BY CAROL MARBIN MILLER http://www.miamiherald.com/579/story/175091.html The closed-door custody battle...

Tucson legislators divided over closing of hearings on CPS By Daniel Scarpinato ARIZONA DAILY STAR Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.19.2007 http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/192459 PHOENIX — Closed-door legislative hearings on Child Protective Services are shaping up to be a partisan showdown...

Committee Addresses Foster Care Lawsuit Wednesday, Jul 18, 2007 - 10:30 AM http://www.turnto10.com/northeast/jar/news.apx.-content-articles-JAR-2007-07-18-0004.html A legislative committee wants more information about the state's foster care system. A lawsuit filed late last month by the state...

New questions arise on CPS ties to slain children By Josh Brodesky arizona daily star Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.19.2007 http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/192450 Child Protective Services case summaries released Wednesday discussing the agency's involvement with three slain Tucson...

Committee to convene on DCYF issues 01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 By Katherine Gregg http://www.projo.com/news/content/DCYF_HEARING_07-18-07_6U6DJ9L.29d7267.html Journal State House Bureau

New details from CPS: Williams and Payne cases http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=6809962 New details just released by Child Protective Services reveal the agency's involvement with Ariana and Tyler Payne and Brandon Williams before the children's deaths. You'll recall, it all came to the...

Child welfare system needs dose of sanity By RICHARD WEXLER Special to the Times Published July 19, 2007 http://www.sptimes.com/2007/07/19/Opinion/Child_welfare_system_.shtml Fixing a child welfare system isn't that hard. Just listen to your gut instinct - and do the opposite.

lostintranslation (Kim Olsen) wrote Ok, Oscar. Does that mean that when Greg said I should get arrested in court to challenge a law, he was in fact, breaking the law? To be a bit technical, I did not suggest you should get arrested. I suggested you could consider submitting the recordings...

1. This is not a "site" it is a usenet newsgroup. 2. If you can't handle scrapping, stay out of CPS issues. 3. You say you came to seek "help for others" against CPS. Use your pull, your "inside connections". 4. You say CPS has things to offer? So did Stalin and Hitler. 5. If I want help...

....they needed Greg's "How to spank effectively" training. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/13708685/detail.html?rss=dgo&psp=news NBCSanDiego.com More More Teen Girls Accused Of Setting Kitten Ablaze

Britney Spears "Stalker" Calls Child Protective Services on Mom? By Angela Carson Jul 13, 2007 http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272614716.shtml Should the state of California be checking out the welfare of the children of Britney Spears? The former pop princess is often...

Saratoga County’s Child Protective Services Abuses Another Family. http://mohawkvalley.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/saratoga-countys-child-protective-services-abuses-another-family/ Note: The tragic events recorded in the article below are becoming the rule rather than the exception. Similar...