Archive for child-protective-services
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
The adoptive parents of an 8-year-old South Carolina boy are suing the Medical University of South Carolina, Greenville Hospital System and the South Carolina Department of Social Services because they say the hospital and DSS acted irresponsibly and inhumanely when they chose the sex assignment of their adopted son and surgically removed his male reproductive ... read more »
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
A Sacramento, Calif., couple are decrying the actions of CPS (Child Protective Services) after the agency took custody of their 5-month-old infant son for what the couple claims was an effort on their part to provide him with another medical opinion. Alex and Ann Nikolayev, parents of 5-month-old Sammy Nikolayev told First Coast News that ... read more »
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Monday, January 28th, 2013
An Arizona mother was arrested on Wednesday after a tip from a neighbor led them to the home of Jaica Rowley, 36-years-old, where her 11-year-old son was found tied to a post. Police say the boy was zip-tied by his hands and feet, the same kinds of zip ties police use to secure criminals in ... read more »
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
A 2-year-old girl was discovered wandering alone in a convenience store parking lot in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The child was found at the WaWa on the 10700 block of Courthouse Road on Sunday. By the time police arrived, employees had brought her into to the store and given her clothing to wear. She was able ... read more »
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Saturday, August 25th, 2012
Myriah Moreland, 20, of Montesano, Washington, was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing her six-month-old son and sharing images and videos of it on the Internet. Moreland has been accused of sharing child pornography with Christopher Dupea, also 20, over social networking sites and through text messages. According to investigators, the pair initially began exchanging sexually ... read more »
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
A teacher at a Kinder-Care daycare facility in Silverdale, Washington, attempted to remove a Chuck E. Cheese Tattoo from 5-year-old Silas Gholston’s face for a class portrait. However, according to daycare officials and the boy’s mother, Heidi Dietrich, the teacher “improperly used a cleaning product” on the boy’s right cheek, which caused a large burn. ... read more »
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
First rule of toddler fight club, don’t make videos of toddler fight club. Child Protective Services in Putnam County has opened an investigation into a YouTube video of two toddlers allegedly being forced to fight. State Department of Health and Human Resources spokesman John Law confirmed the investigation and said his agency will also look ... read more »
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Texas Child Protective Services has petitioned the court to get 8 children they were forced to return to a polygamist sect back into state custody. In affidavits that provide the best view yet of what CPS has found in its investigation of possible sexual abuse of young teenage girls, four child-abuse investigators said removal of ... read more »
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
A Canadian woman who is allegedly a neo-Nazi received a decision in her favor when Manitoba Family and Children Services returned her two children to her and dropped their pursuit to permanently remove them from her home. The deal would involve having the seven-year-old girl and two-year-old boy slowly integrated back into the home, first ... read more »
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Parents are being reunited with their children that were taken from Warren Jeffs’ polygamist sect, after a Texas judge ordered that the removal of the children was improper. And in order to keep further heat off them, the sect’s leaders have now outlawed underage marriage within their ranks. How nice, since the state of Texas ... read more »
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Texas officials have told the mothers of the children rescued from a polygamist sect that they need to abandon some of their religious teachings or they will lose custody of their kids. Some lawyers believe this could mean women would never be able to return to the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, and would ... read more »
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
At least nine of the children taken from Warren Jeff’s polygamist sect have needed hospital care since taken into protective custody, and the children’s mothers are none too happy that they have not been informed of why, or how their kids are doing. “We can’t seem to get anyone on the phone with authority to ... read more »
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Texas state authorities are going to begin DNA tests on the children rescued from the Warren Jeff’s polygamist sect a few weeks ago, in order to determine who their mothers are, and more importantly, to then determine if those women were underage when they gave birth. “It is a cheek swab and it is very ... read more »
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The count of children removed from Warren Jeff’s polygamous sect compound has risen to over 400, and stories are starting to come out that life wasn’t exactly some idyllic religious experience there. Rather, many of the women and children that lived on the sprawling Texas ranch may have stayed out of fear of punishment, or ... read more »
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Jeeze,, what took so long? Isn’t Warren Jeff’s brand of religion just an excuse to try to find a loophole for pedophilia? ELDORADO, Texas (CNN) — Authorities say they removed 52 children, ages 6 months to 17 years, from a West Texas ranch occupied by followers of imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs Eighteen girls ... read more »
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