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Search results for "protective custody" ...
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The Nightmare
The story of how Swedish authorities took two small children in protective custody after a single phone call. The children's father was charged with sexual abuse of the children and the mother of complicity in the crimes. Although both parents were totally innocent, their lives, and the lives of the children, turned into a nightmare.
Tags: Sweden; authorities; protective custody; sexual abuse; wrongful accusation
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Japan: Hiding America's Children
The story of 15 American fathers whose children were spirited away by their Japanese mothers. ABC News uncovered how these women have used the Japanese government's protection to keep their children hidden. FBI warrants, Interpol notices, U.S. custody decisions - none are recognized or enforced by the Japanese courts or law enforcement, leaving the fathers essentially helpless when it came to exercising their parental rights once the children were kidnapped to Japan.
Tags: abduction; Japan; United States; children
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Day-care dangers; DCFS: Guilty until proven innocent; DCFS Declassified
The series focused on how the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services protects children and found problems, including a state law with wording so flawed it couldn't work, major errors in investigating alleged child abuse that ended up accusing innocent parents and repeated errors in the investigation of a murdered boy.
Tags: children; DCFS; Kalab Lay; custody; child abuse; sex offender
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What went wrong?
"Police say Marine Lance Cpl. Robert Quiroz murdered his infant son. But confidential records - obtained through a court order by The Fresno Bee - show that authorities might have saved the baby" had they followed procedures.
Tags: police; law enforcement; child abuse; child custody; homicide; Robert Quiroz; Child Protective Services
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Broken Lives
The Bee profiles "average" children in foster care, and depicts their plight. The series explores "four very personal stories from the private world of dependency court, where children are brought ... for protection from their own parents." The reporter points to the failures of the overburdened foster care system in California, and especially in Sacramento County, where 1 in 56 children is in foster care.
Tags: FOIA; public records; freedom of information; Child Protective Services; social workers; neglect; drugs; abuse; custody; juvenile justice; attorneys; courts; judges; adoption; group homes
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Marked For Death
Westword reports on federal inmate Tony Francis, whose case highlights the inability of the Department of Prisons to prevent violence or protect prisoners from each other. Prisoners who "check-in" to protective custody make themselves even more of a target than a prisoner who won't defend himself. Tony Francis' solution was to get caught escaping and isolated without the stigma of being a snitch.
Tags: federal prisons; protective custody; race; violence
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Access Denied
"The one big political issue of the '90s was abortion. Feminists have obsessed over Roe v. Wade and championed Clinton and Gore fore defending the right to choose. But at the same time, most women in t his country have etched their ability to obtain an abortion disappear. As Miranda Kennedy points out in 'Access Denied,' 85 percent of counties nationwide have no abortion provider, It's still true that women with money can always access abortion, but women with less cannot."
Tags: abortion clinics; choice; Child Custody Protection Act; parental notification; Mark Crutcher; "A Guerrilla Strategy for a Pro-life America; Life Dynamics; waiting period; Hyde Amendment; Medicaid; late-term abortion
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Murder by Neglect: Ariana's Story
The Detroit Free Press tells the story of Ariana Swinson, a 2-year-old girl who was killed by her parents four months after they regained custody of Ariana and her two siblings from state authorities. The Free Press uses the narrative to illustrate problems in the Michigan child welfare system. "At least 22 Michigan children have died of abuse or neglect in the last three years after coming under the protection of the state's system." The Michigan Family Independence Agency won't reveal the identifies of these children or how the system may have failed them due to strict confidentiality laws. However, the Free Press obtained secret files about Ariana's case.
Tags: Ariana Swinson; Ed Swinson; Linda Paling; Detroit; Michigan; child abuse; neglect; children; welfare; safety; juveniles; Michigan Family Independence Agency (FIA)
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To Protect and Collect, Taking Cash into Custody
Dillon reveals that "law enforcement agencies across the country are evading laws with the help of federal agencies to keep millions of dollars in drug money and property they seize. ... The Kansas City Star investigation reveals that police agencies in more than two dozen states have used federal law enforcement to circumvent their own laws and keep most of (what) they seize."
Tags: drugs; law; law enforcement
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The Once and Future Mom
A mother in Phoenix loses custody of her two daughters while on the verge of eviction and suffering from dysthymia, a mood disorder. Little was done to help reunite the biological family, and parental rights were severed based on the recommendation of CPS caseworkers. New incentives (up to $6,000 per child) in the 1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) pave the way for children to move from foster care into permanent homes. However, this case was overturned on appeal, largely because CPS failed to make "reasonable efforts" to reunite the family.
Tags: Children's Protection Services (CPS); foster care; child care; dysthmia