How Foster Children Become Victims.
Predators prey on children from broken homes, group homes, foster care, and runaways. Continue reading How Foster Children Become Victims.
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How did church leaders go unnoticed for so long? “Their word was golden”.
Forty-one years later the grand jury found other accusations. The grand jury asked Masters why he deferred to the bishop’s request to keep Paone’s misconduct under wraps. Masters stated, “Probably, respect for the bishop. I really have no proper answer”. Continue reading How did church leaders go unnoticed for so long? “Their word was golden”.
Judge says the Indian Child Welfare Act is racially discriminatory against white people.
the American Association of Adoption Attorneys filed six federal lawsuits in six different states and that Judge O’Conner struck down the Indian Child Welfare Act declaring that “it is an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Act and stated that it racially discriminated against white people because they gave preference to Indian people or Indian children”. Continue reading Judge says the Indian Child Welfare Act is racially discriminatory against white people.
Child Protection agencies failed to respond to multiple calls that would have prevented 4-year-old Charlie Garay from being killed in Rotterdam foster care.
A lawsuit filed in State Supreme Court in Albany County says that “The agencies ignored repeated red flags and bypassed established procedures, leaving Charlie in the care of at the home of Dequan and Latrisha Greene for months longer than he should have been and even bypassed procedure to initially place him there. Charlie and his 5-year-old sibling were removed from their biological parents and placed in the Hellish placed in Schenectady County foster home by Albany County Department of Social Services in September 2020 where they were ignored and abused until Charlie was dead. Of course, none of the parties profiting from this child’s preventable death will comment. Lorraine Silverman is the attorney bringing the lawsuit.
The lawsuit names multiple employees in both counties including case workers, supervisors and a CPS intake specialist, employees from the St. Anne Institute, a counselor, case manager and social worker. Continue reading Child Protection agencies failed to respond to multiple calls that would have prevented 4-year-old Charlie Garay from being killed in Rotterdam foster care.
ASFA 1997 Incentivized Foster Care ~a result
Let’s break something down as far as Title IV-E goes. The Department makes a TON of money off our kids when they remove them. Continue reading ASFA 1997 Incentivized Foster Care ~a result
Mom got $9.6M. Now the daughter is suing the state after a wrongful removal. A look at the Right To Lie Case.
A look at the “Right To Lie” case where Mom got $9.6M and then, the daughter sued Orange County. Continue reading Mom got $9.6M. Now the daughter is suing the state after a wrongful removal. A look at the Right To Lie Case.
Fostered or Forgotten?
Leaving them there with no one to advocate for them, and do you want to know how it almost always ends? It almost always ends in solitary confinement until they kill themselves or a jailer loses it and kills them. They have no family to support them. Most of the time family times are severed and children are moved away from anyone and everything they know. We have to do better! Continue reading Fostered or Forgotten?
How Foster Care Youth Become Trafficking Victims
Predators prey on children from broken homes, group homes, foster care, and runaways. The U.S. Department of State reports that foster care is a consistent problem. Live-in parents and step parents are 20 times more likely to abuse a child than a biological parent. City reports show that between 60% to as many as 90% of the children rescued in sex trafficking stings were in foster care before they were trafficked. Often, when they are rescued, they are returned to state custody where they will likely run away again. Continue reading How Foster Care Youth Become Trafficking Victims
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