The child was forced to put a rag in her mouth while her foster family beat her so no one could hear her screams, reported the Sun Sentinel.
When police arrived at the home, foster caretaker Duane Fletcher, 56, interrupted the child’s interview with the investigator. In his presence, the child denied that her injuries were from beatings.
Queensland's billion-dollar child safety bill
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- Created: Monday, 21 January 2019 21:34
- Written by Felicity Caldwell - Brisbane Times
The Queensland government spent more than $1 billion last year to save children from neglect and abuse.
But almost 6000 youth aged up to 17 years of age were still sadly the subject of substantiated complaints to Child Safety in 2017-18.
CPS case worker accused of lying under oath
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- Created: Thursday, 22 November 2018 05:46
- Written by Randy Wallace - Fox 26 News
These two attorneys represent the maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy who has been in the custody of Child Protective Services for almost his whole life.
That makes no sense, the attorneys say, when you have suitable blood relatives wanting to adopt.
"The child is in foster care. He's a ward of the state and the grandparent is actually getting foster care payments. It makes no sense whatsoever," said attorney Steven Pook.
Kids in NT care subject to abuse
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- Created: Wednesday, 23 November 2016 15:02
- Written by Hayley Sorenson - NT News
SEVENTY Northern Territory kids who had been removed from their families and placed in out-of-home care were subjected to harm or exploitation last year.
The NT Children’s Commissioner’s annual report shows there were 81 cases in 2015-16 in which children in out-of-home care were harmed.
Of those cases, 10 children were the subject of multiple cases of abuse.
Northern Territory foster kids placed with 'cruel' carer despite 10 investigations into her suitability, report reveals
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- Created: Friday, 11 May 2018 18:50
- Written by Elias Clure and Bridget Judd - ABC News
A Territory Families-approved carer accused of making a foster child drink sour milk "as a form of punishment" was allowed to continue in the role despite 10 investigations into her suitability, a report by the Children's Commissioner has revealed.
Alberta promises ‘decisive steps’ to overhaul child interventions in the province
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- Created: Thursday, 28 June 2018 02:52
- Written by Claire Theobald - StarMetro Edmonton
EDMONTON—Alberta’s Ministry of Children’s Services released an action plan Thursday designed to overhaul child interventions in the province, promising to bring an end to a painful history of unnecessarily separating children from their communities and cultures by working to keep more families whole.
The plan, A Stronger, Safer Tomorrow, includes 39 actions to be implemented by 2022 with 16 immediate actions to be executed by April 2019.
“It involves decisive steps to create the child intervention system that Albertans expect, to improve safety, to increase accountability, to strengthen supports for children and youth and to transform how we work with Indigenous families and communities,” said Danielle Larivee, minister of Children’s Services in Lethbridge, Alta., Thursday.
Mom brings coughing 10-month-old to the hospital. Days later, cops take the baby.
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- Created: Monday, 18 June 2018 19:48
- Written by Lenore Skenazy
‘They already had a foster parent in the room, to remove my son... before they ever proved there was an emergency situation.'
Outraged by cases of child protective services taking children from their competent, loving parents on flimsy medical grounds, a group in Minnesota has filed a motion in federal court to do what their organization's name suggests: "Stop child protective services from legally kidnapping children."
Fox 9 reports that Dwight Mitchell, the founder, had his child taken away from him "unfairly" for 22 months. His group now has over 1,000 members. One of them is Amanda Weber, whose son was taken from her for a week after she brought him to the hospital to be examined for a cough:
Australia branded ‘child-stealing capital of the Western world’
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- Created: Tuesday, 27 September 2016 20:49
- Written by Stephen Fitzpatrick - The Australian
Australian children are removed from their families more often than anywhere in the Western world, nearly twice as often as in the US and almost three times the rate in New Zealand, a parliamentary inquiry into child welfare has heard.
There is also “a culture of removal and a culture of victim blaming”.
Mary Moore, convener of the volunteer Alliance for Family Preservation and Restoration, told the NSW parliamentary committee yesterday that children were being taken into care based on the opinion of case workers where no harm had occurred “but because they have concerns the child might suffer harm in the future, and they’re then in care until age 18”.
Woman jailed for brutally assaulting foster child after appearing in Parkes District Court
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- Created: Friday, 27 October 2017 23:50
- Written by Parkes Champion Post
A 31-year-old Parkes woman was sentenced to seven years’ jail today in Parkes District Court after assaulting a five-year-old foster child in her care.
Brooke Roberts of Middleton Street, appeared before Judge Stephen Hanley on the charge of reckless grievous bodily harm, an offence that carries a maximum sentence of ten years.
Minister Bhullar says inquiry into deaths of kids in government care not needed
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- Created: Sunday, 29 December 2013 11:58
- Written by Canada Court Watch
Manmeet Bhullar says no enquiry is needed. Manmeet Bhullar, who will take over the portfolio when the newly shuffled cabinet is sworn in next week, said Wednesday December 18 2013 he doesn't see the need to hold an independent public inquiry into the matter, as demanded by all three opposition parties. Great concerns the 33-year-old Bhullar, who is moving from the Service Alberta portfolio, lacks the experience to shepherd Human Services, which handles child and youth issues, social programs and homelessness.
No inquiry means we do not think these children's lives matter, so much so that we can not even be bothered to look into their deaths. There are no words to describe how disgusted I am.
Parents stunned by news of inquiry into baby’s death while in care
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- Created: Sunday, 28 December 2014 00:00
- Written by Karen Kleiss - Edmonton Journal
Paul Jean holds his daughter, Dani Isabella Jean, shortly before she died on May 4, 2013. She was found tangled in her foster mother's bed sheets. EDMONTON - Paul Jean believed for more than a year that his six-week-old daughter had died in foster care from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
LA County parents get $800K settlement after county officials remove their children without a warrant
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- Created: Tuesday, 03 February 2015 23:08
- Written by Frank Stoltze - Wikimedia Commons
LA County agrees to pay $800,000 to parents of kids who were removed from home. LA County agrees to pay $800,000 to parents of kids who were removed from home.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday agreed to pay $800,000 to the parents of two children taken from their home by a Sheriff’s deputy and social workers.
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