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Janiah Bryant – Ma’Khia’s younger sister – called police in late March and threatened to kill someone if she was not removed from a Columbus-area foster home. A Columbus Division of Police report states that in the 911 call, Janiah told the dispatcher she wanted to leave the home and return to Franklin County Children Services. “When CPD officers arrived at the home, Janiah Bryant explained that she got into an argument with her sister, Ma’Khia Bryant, and foster mother, Angela Moore,” wrote Tom Sussi, the Central Ohio investigative reporter who broke the story. When officers informed Janiah Bryant that...

A former South Dakota lawmaker convicted of raping his two foster daughters has sent news organizations what he claims is a copyright notice that seeks to prevent the use of his name without his consent. A letter and an accompanying document labeled "Common Law Copyright Notice" said former state Rep. Ted Alvin Klaudt is reserving a common-law copyright of a trade name or trademark for his name. It said no one can use his name without his consent, and anyone who does would owe him $500,000. Klaudt was convicted in 2007 on four counts of second-degree rape for touching his...

One attorney compared the situation at a foster home filled with girls and a pair of unrelated teenage boys as two roosters in a hen house. Acting on youthful urges, the girls and boys had sex until the youngest girl, then 11, told her teacher about it on Dec. 16. Police removed the boys -- ages 14 and 15 -- from the home and charged them with criminal sexual conduct. The Family Independence Agency also removed seven girls from the home and put them in temporary foster care. Attorney Elizabeth Warner, who represents one of two mothers in the home,...