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He was hospitalized multiple times for diabetes while in state custody. Arizona's Department of Child Safety (DCS) seized Jakob Blodgett from his father's custody last December. Two weeks later, the boy died of ketoacidosis—a dangerous complication of Type 1 diabetes. While DCS has already received a barrage of criticism over the child's death, an autopsy report obtained by Reason shows even more evidence of misconduct. According to the report, Jakob had been hospitalized for ketoacidosis once before in the weeks before his death. Despite this, those caring for him at a DCS group home did not take steps to prevent...

Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi personally rents office space to a child welfare group, First 5 San Mateo County, that was set up by a convicted pedophile. The group partners with a nonprofit that ran a group house where child molestation occurred and partners with a conflict resolution center that had a volunteer convicted for storing hundreds of images of child porn. NATIONAL FILE has exclusively obtained the lease documents showing that Nancy Pelosi is the group’s landlady dating back to 2002, the same year monstrous pedophile Dr. William Ayres was given an award by city politicians for his work...

Other than interdicting the flow of children entering the country illegally, solutions to this crisis are hard to come by.Where is Robert Francis O’Rourke today? In June 2018, while running unsuccessfully for Ted Cruz’s Senate seat in Texas, he was outside the gates of the Tornillo facility for unaccompanied alien children (UACs), megaphone in hand. UACs are children who cross the U.S. border illegally and without a parent. There was nothing for O’Rourke to protest about the children’s treatment. Rather, he was protesting the Trump administration for enforcing immigration laws as passed by Congress. Today the Biden administration is activating...

Today, First Lady Melania Trump held a virtual roundtable to discuss the foster care system in the United States and the Administration’s ongoing efforts to support safe, stable and permanent families for children and youth. Those efforts include the June 24, 2020 Executive Order on Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America’s Children, which President Trump signed last week with the First Lady in attendance.The First Lady invited participants who are advocates for foster children and who have been impacted by the foster care system, including young adults who have spent time in foster care, foster parents, and representatives...

Today, First Lady Melania Trump joined President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in the Oval Office for the signing of the Executive Order on Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America’s Children.Today’s Executive Order signing is particularly relevant to the mission and values of the First Lady’s Be Best initiative.  Mrs. Trump continues to advocate for supporting child welfare in order to improve the lives and well-being of children and youth in foster care throughout the country. In May, The First Lady joined a call with our nation’s governors where she asked them to designate child...

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:Section 1.  Purpose.  Every child deserves a family.  Our States and communities have both a legal obligation, and the privilege, to care for our Nation’s most vulnerable children.The best foster care system is one that is not needed in the first place.  My Administration has been focused on prevention strategies that keep children safe while strengthening families so that children do not enter foster care unnecessarily.  Last year, and for only the second time since...

MEDFORD, Ore. (KATU) — Authorities found a deceased toddler on Sunday, and authorities believe it is the son of the Oregon couple involved in an apparent murder-suicide in Montana. The child’s body was found deceased in a remote part of Montana. While the medical examiner hasn’t confirmed the identity, they believe it is two-year-old Aiden Salcido. Medford Police officers were working with the FBI to find Aiden after his mother and father, Hannah Janiak and Daniel Salcido, were found dead Wednesday in Kalispell, Montana. Both were wanted on felony warrants in Oregon after they were convicted of a burglary that...

The Knesset's Special Committee for the Rights of the Child will hold a meeting on alienating children from their parents - but will only invite women's organizations to take part. The meeting will be held in another six weeks. It will discuss the involvement of authorities in divorce crises for the children's sake, and how to deal with parental alienation. Participants will include Israel's Education Ministry; the Labor, Social Affairs, and Social Services Ministry; the Federation of Local Authorities in Israel; the Legal Aid Department; court management; Israel Psychological Associatoin; Bar Ilan University's Rackman Center; the women's organizations Naamat, WIZO,...

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Less than a year after revelations that thousands of child abuse and neglect reports in Arizona had gone uninvestigated, the state has overhauled its child welfare agency, funding it with tens of millions more than in the past. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Thursday signed into law two bills that created and funded a new child welfare agency, now known as the Department of Child Safety. […] Brewer proposed the overhaul after revelations late last year that more than 6,500 abuse and neglect reports were closed without investigation by the old Child Protective Services department. The governor set up a...

The number of children who died from abuse or neglect over the past five years in Illinois is higher than the state’s child-welfare agency has reported, according to new figures from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. The number of deaths in that time is 455, DCFS officials said — which is 11 more than the agency previously counted. DCFS officials blamed errors in “the department’s tracking and reporting system,” including counting as a single death some cases in which more than one child died. Acting DCFS boss Denise Gonzales ordered an audit of the death statistics on...

By Manya A. Brachear, Tribune reporter August 3, 2011 When Pat Schlesser's marriage ended 16 years ago, it was an opportunity to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a foster parent — a mission her former husband had not shared. A lifelong Roman Catholic, she turned to Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Joliet. But the agency turned her away, advising her not to take on foster children so soon after a divorce. Now she realizes the agency's qualms paid off for her two daughters and the 14 foster children who have since lived in her Wheaton home. "I suppose...

Is it time for an OctoAgent? OctoMom Nadya Suleman is pimping out her eight babies without proper consideration of their interests, a new lawsuit in Orange County, Calif., claims. Gloria Allred, the celeb lawyer behind the suit, said Monday that the babies deserve a court-appointed guardian - and a separate theatrical agent - to make sure their options are fully "explored" and that they get their fair share of any booty generated by their fame. "Rather than choosing to provide her children with a normal life," Allred said, "Nadya Suleman, has chosen instead to commercially exploit them, and it appears...

Memphis, TN -- A new undercover videotape shows staff at a Tennessee Planned Parenthood abortion clinic urging a client to lie about her potential sexual abuse so she could get an abortion. A girl who said she is 14 and sexually abused by a 31-year-old man was told to hide the information from a judge. The staff members at the nation's largest abortion business told the young woman to conceal the information so a judge would approve her request for an abortion without parental involvement, which is require by state law except in emergency cases. "Don't mention it. Just say...

On the surface, a Winnipeg mother who risks losing her two children to the state because of her neo-Nazi beliefs might not seem to have much in common with Omar Khadr, the Canadian who has spent nearly six years at Guantanamo Bay after being captured on an Afghanistan battlefield. But both cases essentially are about the indoctrination of young people into despicable, fascistic ideologies, and the question of how our society treats them. Let us start with the Winnipeg family, whose identity remains undisclosed in the media. The mother drew a swastika on her seven-year-old daughter's arm be-fore sending her...

State troopers have sealed off a secretive West Texas religious outpost built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs so child welfare investigators can interview children to see if they're safe, officials said Friday. Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner said the Texas Department of Public Safety and other law enforcement helped investigators gain access to the complex near Eldorado. She said CPS is "investigating whether any children are in danger" but said no decisions had been made on whether to remove any children. DPS spokesman Tom Vinger said CPS was responding to a complaint but could not say whether the complaint...

Appeals Court Asked To Hold State Responsible for Illegally Strip Searching Children MILWAUKEE, WI, August 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Today Liberty Counsel filed a brief at the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in a case involving a state worker who made two elementary children undress without parental consent. The case is Michael C. v. Gresbach. The eight-year-old boy, his nine-year-old sister and their parents are represented by Stephen Crampton, Vice President of Legal Affairs and General Counsel for Liberty Counsel, and Wisconsin attorney Michael D. Dean. The case involves Dana Gresbach, a social worker from the Bureau of Milwaukee Child...

Children's Aid Has No Duty to Families, Only Child: Supreme Court of Canada By John Jalsevac OTTAWA, Ontario, August 1, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A recent ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada has some pro-family groups concerned, after the Court argued that child welfare services have no duty to the families of children, but only exclusively to the child. The Court made the ruling in response to a lawsuit filed by the parents of a girl who was removed from her home over a decade ago. Known only as R.D., the girl was taken from her home in January of...

As we await the sentencing phase of the trial of John Couey, the brutal murderer of Jessica Lunsford, we should ponder how on earth Couey was able to commit this vile crime. He was able to do it because, despite a 25 year long criminal history, he was free and out on the streets to commit more crime. Why? Because of Liberal policies on crime and punishment. He had twice before been convicted of sex crimes and had twice been allowed back out on the street. If he had been executed after his first sex assault Jessica Lunsford would be...

AMBER ALERT 08/31/06, BUCKS CO., BLK HISP F, 3 YOA, 39” 35 LBS, BLK HR, BRN EYES, PINK SHIRT PINK PANTS, NO SHOES, ABDUCTED APPROX. 0911 BLK MALE, 19 YOA, 6’5” 170 LBS., BRN EYES, BLK HAIR, NO SHIRT, BLUE JEANS, 1997 RED BUICK SDN, PA REG FXY9677 The Pennsylvania State Police has issued an Amber Child Abduction Alert for the Bensalem Police Department, Bucks County. Bensalem Police are searching for Jiane FITZPATRICK, a black hispanic female, age 3, 39” tall, 35 pounds, black hair with pink barrettes, brown eyes, wearing a pink shirt and pink long pants, no footwear....