Ohio Police are search for a teenage girl, Donnielle Owens, from Newark, Ohio, who was last seen early Sunday morning. Donnielle has reportedly run away with her 10-day-old daughter, Raydreonna A. Moorfield, and is currently being sought by authorities. Police believe Donnielle Owens took a taxi to Columbus around 3 am on Sunday morning, with ... read more »
Vastie Coleman, 27, has been charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury after after severely abusing her 4-year-old son for wetting his pants in the car. According to authorities, Coleman, of Harris County, Texas, whipped her son, Kyron Barnes, with a chord in their apartment on Sunday night. The Daily Mail reports that Coleman put her son in ... read more »
A new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics suggests that foster children are being prescribed a powerful combination of antipsychosis drugs as frequently as some of the most mentally disabled kids on Medicaid. The report is the first to investigate how often youngsters in foster homes are given two antipsychotic drugs at once, according ... read more »
Adoption statistics show that adoption rates are increasing all over the world. When we see this type of rise in statistics, especially in an area that is so critical it brings several questions to mind. Why is there such a huge increase in the numbers of children in foster care or in need of adoption? ... read more »
Eight children ranging in age 11 months to 11 years were purportedly taken from a foster care agency in New York City by their mother, Shanel Nadal, last week. The Associated Press reports the children were found safe and in good shape today by U.S. Marshals and members of the New York City Police, in ... read more »
Officials say that 12-year-old Travis Messenger, who died earlier this week while driving a stolen minivan, was a foster child who escaped from a hospital emergency room after running away from his assigned foster home. The News Gazette newspaper in Champaign reported that the boy died Monday after crashing a stolen minivan on a country road near Westville, ... read more »
Three Catholic Charities agencies are seeking an emergency injunction that would allow religious agencies to turn away couples in civil unions seeking to adopt. Catholic Charities in the dioceses of Springfield, Peoria and Joliet filed a complaint Tuesday in Sangamon County Circuit Court and asked a judge for a temporary restraining order and injunction that would prevent the ... read more »
Chelsea, a 21 year old girl from Brillion, Wisconsin whose name was not known 14 years ago when she was referred to as “girl in cage”, opened up for the first time on Oprah today. Fourteen years ago, Chelsea was the victim of relentless torture. The abuse was brought to the attention of the local, ... read more »
Jorge Barahona, an adoptive father of 4 foster children, admitted to murdering his 10 year daughter and leaving her twin brother in critical condition. Barahona reportedly doused the young boy with highly toxic chemicals and gave him sleeping pills. The boy is suffering from severe chemical burns and is said to have been suffering from ... read more »
The step-grandparents and mother and father of a 9 year old Virginia boy have been arrested in conjunction with child neglect and abuse. The foursome saw it fit to punish and discipline the boy by making him sleep in the tool shed. An AP video of the shed showed that it was packed with tools ... read more »
Sheesh, it seems we read a story like this every week. Lock your doors, people! A 2-year-old Arlington girl and two of her siblings have been placed in temporary foster care after the toddler was found Monday night wandering in the street several blocks from her home. The toddler wandered away from her family’s home ... read more »
A judge is cracking down on Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services, giving them one month to comply with a class action lawsuit settlement from 4 years ago. Whatcom County Superior Court Judge Charles R. Snyder said the state has made plenty of promises to closely monitor the health and well-being of children in ... read more »
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