Child Protective Services

Kidnappers Lied To Victim About His Identity

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Gloria Walker Trial, Krystle Tanner, Fernando Morin, Auboni Champion-Morin, Child Protective Services, Gloria Walker, Miguel Morin Kidnapped, Gloria Walker Kidnapping, Miguel Morin Kidnapping, Houston-Texas, Auboni Champion-Morin and Fernando Morin, Video, Krystle Tanner Trial, Miguel Morin Found, Krystle Tanner Kidnapping, Miguel Morin, Crime News

SAN AUGUSTINE, Texas — Krystle Tanner and her mother, Gloria Walker, for years had successfully concealed the true identity of the boy that auth...

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HORROR: Children Removed From Sex Offender's House Were Restrained To Beds

AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK and NOMAAN MERCHANT | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Child Protective Services, Texas Children, Texas Sex Offender, Texas Child Abuse, Dayton Texas, Crime News

DAYTON, Texas — Texas authorities said Tuesday they removed 11 children from a crowded home where a registered sex offender lives after they fou...

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$5 Sandwiches Landed This Couple In Jail, Daughter Taken Away

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Safeway, Video, Grocery Theft, Grocery Stores, Food Theft, Child Protective Services, Safeway Grocery Store, Theft, Accidental Theft, Crime News

When Nicole Leczcyzynski, a pregnant mother from Hawaii, felt dizzy while grocery shopping, she and her husband decided to munch on some $5 sandwiches...

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Missing Arizona Girl Likely Kidnapped, Police Say

AP | By AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Arizona Crime, Glendale, Jahessye Shockley, Jahessye Shockley Kidnapped, Jahessye Shockley Missing, Child Protective Services, Arizona, Steve Meissner, Missing Person, Video, Kidnapping, Missing Persons, Kidnapped, Missing Child, Missing Children, Black Voices News

By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press PHOENIX -- Police looking for a 5-year-old Arizona girl who has been missing six days said Monday they now be...

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Police: Drunk Father Passes Out, Allows 8-Year-Old Son To Drive

Timothy Stenovec | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Livingston Parish, Billy Joe Madden, Louisiana, Crime, Child Protective Services, Parenting, Child Desertion, 8 Year Old Boy Drives, Billy Joe Madden Arrested, Dad Sleeps While Son Drives, Louisiana State Police, Weird News News

Louisiana State Police arrested Billy Joe Madden after they stopped a pickup truck traveling on Interstate 12 and reportedly found his 8-year-old son ...

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Death Toll Mounts

Christine James-Brown | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Foster Care, Child Welfare, Child Abuse, Children, Cwla, Foster Child, Child Fatality, Child Neglect, Child Protection, Child Protective Services, Social Work Children, Child Abuse Prevention, Social Work, Impact News

It seems week after week news of other child fatalities permeates the media. Coverage of high-profile cases illustrate our collective inability to keep children -- and even those who protect them -- safe.

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Houston Family Living In Storage Unit Loses Custody of Kids

AOL Real Estate | Ann Brenoff | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Star of Hope, Houston, Child Abuse, Storage Unit, Great Recession, Rent, Economic Crisis, Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, Child Protective Services, Economic Recovery, Child Custody, Texas Connections Academy, Housing Crisis, Business News

Charlomane and Prince Leonard were doing just fine before the recession hit. But for the past three years, they've been forced to live with their six ...

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Texas Dad Leaves Son for Dead Along Highway

AP | Posted 08.29.2011

Read More: Al Hunt, Texas, Child Neglect, Angel Flores, Sweetwater-Texas, Child Abuse, Crime, Texas Crime, Texas Father, Child Protective Services, Texas Man, Carlos Rico, Crime News

SWEETWATER, Texas -- A father abandoned his 4-year-old son along a West Texas highway, and the injured boy spent several hours alone in the dark befor...

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Supreme Court Could Allow Student Interrogation Without Parent Consent

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Parental Rights, Child Protective Services, Camreta/Alford v. Greene, U.S. Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Education News

In the first case involving CPS to go before the Supreme Court, state agents might have to obtain a court order to question a child at school. Or, it could be a blow to parents' and kids' rights.

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Signs of Hope Emerge From Tragedy

Michael Piraino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Protective Services, Child Neglect, Child Abuse, Homeless Children, Foster Care, Casa, Family Court, Barahona, Impact News

I take as a sign of hope the outpouring of support from people asking how they can become volunteers for other abused and neglected children.

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A Call to End 'The National Media Blackout on Child Abuse'

Teresa Huizar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Abuse Professional, Child Neglect, Call to Action, National Center for Child Death Review, Child Abuse Deaths, Every Child Matters Education Fund, Child Abuse, Child Protective Services, Children's Advocacy Centers, National District Attorneys Association, Child Neglect Deaths, National Children's Alliance, National Association of Social Workers, Impact News

I encourage not just the national media but the general public as well, to become more educated on what must be done to help end the national tragedy of child maltreatment deaths in our country.

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Araceli Gutierrez Charged With Leaving Cocaine In Her Toddler's Sock

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cocaine Socks, Araceli Gutierrez, Illinois, East Chicago, Child Protective Services, Indiana, Cocaine, Chicago, Chicago News

Araceli Gutierrez of East Chicago, Ind. is facing felony charges of neglect after her 3-year-old son was found with cocaine in his sock. Gutierrez le...

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The Privatization of Our Children

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: California, Child Welfare, Child Abuse, Rural America, Children, Non-Profits, Privatization, Child Protective Services, Foster Care, Children's Health, Healthy Living News

The question must be floated: can we as a society be engaged in privatizing our children?

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Child Abduction: Take A Deep Breath

Lenore Skenazy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Schools, Pedophilia, Child-Protective-Services, Volunteer, New York News

Sometimes, when I try to explain how frenzied we have become about the real but extremely rare crime of childhood abduction, or of rampant pedophilia in general, I compare our era to 1692 Salem.

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What Cindy McCain and Michael Jackson Have in Common

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Molestation, Michael Jackson, Hasselhoff Drunk Video, Stanton Peele, David Hasselhoff, Prescription Addiction, Parental-Rights, Cindy McCain, Prescription Drugs, Child Protective Services, Prescription Painkillers, Custody Battle, Entertainment News

In family courts around the United States, children are taken from parents addicted to drugs. I observed this first hand in New Jersey, where I defended such parents.

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Youth Speak Up and Stand Out in Chicago

Michelle Renee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Child Protective Services, Youth Advocacy Trauma Victims, Childhood Trauma, Youth Trauma, National Child Traumatic Stress Network, Cps, Chicago News

Until recently youth have been ignored in trauma treatment, program and outreach strategy development. This, we are discovering, is a mistake.

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Texas Appeals Polygamist Sect Ruling

AP | MICHELLE ROBERTS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas, Appeals, Flds, Polygamy, Polygamist Sect, Child Protective Services, Texas Supreme Court, Home News

SAN ANGELO, Texas — State child welfare authorities on Friday appealed a stinging court ruling that said their seizure of more than 440 children...

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TX Appellate Court Says "No Dice" on Keeping the Kids

Deborah King | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Willie Jessop, Child Protective Services, Sect Children, Texas, Third Court of Appeals, Flds, Texas FLDS Ruling, FLDS Raid, Breaking Politics News, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Latter Day Saints, Politics News

We are still left with the question why any parent would willingly keep their child in a household where girls are at risk of a forced marriage to some old codger before the age of 16.

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From San Angelo, TX

Deborah King | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Family Service Plan, Child Protective Services, Fundamentalists Latter-Day Saints, San Angelo, Flds, Polygamy, Tx, Cult, Home News

If a boy in FLDS shows any indication of wanting to think for himself, he is dumped outside of town by his parents and becomes a non-person, unable to contact his family.

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