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Dead fetus' age crucial to possible criminal case? ''They hid the body from us for eight days,'' Hialeah Police Deputy Chief Mark Overton said. Hialeah police are pushing for indictments. They say the clinic staff should have called 911 and sent the baby -- a girl - to the hospital. ''This has to be a homicide, an unlawful killing. It could be manslaughter, but we believe it falls in that realm,'' Overton said. She told detectives she saw the baby gasping for five minutes as clinic staffers began "shrieking", according to a search warrant. ''In no other homicide investigation do...

Mike Farris Addresses Social Workers at National Conference On April 1, 2003, Home School Legal Defense Association Co-founder and Chairman Michael Farris addressed a national gathering of social workers in St. Louis, Missouri. Gateways to Prevention, the 14th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, hosted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration of Children and Families, was designed for "child protection workers and administrators, social workers … and others committed to ensuring the protection of children" according to the conference website. Farris was invited by Bush administration officials to discuss Home School Legal Defense Association's...