Category: law
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California Governor signs law making it harder for CPS to seek child support from parents
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last month that would limit county child welfare agencies (CPS) from seeking child support from parents. Assembly Bill 1686, authored by Los Angeles state Assembly member Isaac Bryan, encourages counties to avoid seeking child support payments from parents whose children are in the child welfare system. Michelle…
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Lawsuit Accusing Texas of “Poorly Supervising Foster Children” Moves Forward
“Children are being harmed. And the state knows it and is basically disregarding the harm to children” Julie Wilson Infowars.com August 29, 2013 A class-action lawsuit filed in 2011 on behalf of nine Texas children has been given the go ahead by a federal judge on Thursday. The lawsuit accuses Texas of “poorly supervising foster…
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East Texas Jury Deliberates on Kidnapping of Boy Hidden for 8 Years
FILE – This March 12, 2012 booking photo provided by the San Augustine Sheriff’s Office shows Krystle Rochelle Tanner. Jurors in San Augustine, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 found Tanner and her mother, Gloria Walker, guilty of kidnapping Miguel Morin, now 8, who disappeared in 2004. Walker also was found guilty of injury to…
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Mother Kills Child Before Turning Gun on Herself
Police say apparent murder-suicide occurred after judge awarded custody to father By Frank Heinz | Saturday, Oct 22, 2011 | Updated 6:32 PM CDT View Comments (14) Ellen Goldberg, NBC 5 News Police say the apparent murder-suicide occurred shortly after a judge awarded custody to the boy’s father. A woman shot and killed her 7-year-old son…
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Texas harms foster children with inattention, shoddy system, lawsuit says
By ROBERT T. GARRETT Source: Dallas Morning News Austin Bureau rtgarrett@dallasnews.com Published 29 March 2011 10:38 AM AUSTIN — Texas violates the rights of abused and neglected children by running a shoddy foster care system, the New York-based group Children’s Rights says in a class-action federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. Too many youths are isolated and linger for years…
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Help! I fell in love with the boogeyman!
(c) Forever May, 2009 The boogeyman. Everybody knows the boogeyman isn’t real. Right? Well, to some, the boogeyman is very real and he is the one you love. How does someone fall in love with the boogeyman? What makes the boogeyman become what or who he is? A monster – an abuser… Abuse at its…
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Dizzy in the DV Cycle – Literally
October is Domestic Violence awareness month. So Its Almost Tuesday wants to bring attention to the issue of Domestic Violence… something that affects our children – bringing them into foster care – teaching them violence – and killing them…. Domestic violence is considered child abuse by law in many states, even if the child only…
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ACP Offers Freedom For Abuse Victims in Texas
[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.590626&w=325&h=250&fv=] more about “Corpus Christi, TX | KRISTV.COM |Texa…“, posted with vodpod I left my abuser…but he keeps coming after me… nobody was there to stop him…so I went back… If I leave him, he’ll just come find me… so I might as well stay…” I’m afraid to stay home…
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FLDS: Appellate Court Rules CPS HAD NO RIGHT TO REMOVE CHILDREN
http://www.kxan.com/global/story.asp?s=8365745 AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) — The Third Court of Appeals has ruled that Child Protective Services did not have the right to remove children from the Yearning for Zion ranch last month. The ruling comes as a result of a document filed by Texas RioGrande Legal Aid last month. The TRLA is the largest provider…
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CPS v. FLDS: Truth v. Lies: ItsAlmostTuesday v. Media- I CALL FOR A STRIKE
I am disgusted by CPS – again. I am disgusted by the Media – again. I miss my children… again… So, the saga continues… FLDS, CPS, ElDorado, Media, Rocky, Bullwinkle…. hrrrrm? My day started out a little emotional with this post as I read the Dallas Morning News Opinion Blog – where Sharon Grigsby posted…
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FLDS parents complain of vague custody plans
Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints make their way towards the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas for the first round of hearings regarding the family plans on Monday, May 19, 2008. (AP Photo/San Angelo Standard-Times, Brian Connelly) Tuesday, 20 May 2008 Michelle Roberts – THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANGELO, Texas…
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ElDorado Childrens’ Removal by CPS was based on False Allegations
But still … they are keeping the kids in foster care…. ? Why? Warrant dropped against man named in polygamist retreat raid May 2, 2008 ELDORADO, Texas (AP) — An arrest warrant has been dropped for a man thought to be the husband of a teenage girl whose report of abuse triggered a raid on…
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PLEASE COMMENT on ELDORADO DECISION
I want to hear from you. Do you think the right thing was done in removing all of the children from the compound and placing them in foster care? Or do you think the social workers were overzealous in their decision? Please send in your comments and let us know what you think.
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Texas Argues Death Penalty For Child Rapists
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/yahoolatestnews/stories/041708dnnatscotus.6c5b97cf.html?npc U.S. Supreme Court to hear Texas argue death penalty for child rapists 08:39 AM CDT on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 By BRENDAN MCKENNA / The Dallas Morning News bmckenna@dallasnews.com WASHINGTON — Texas says sometimes the sexual assault of a child can be so violent or obscene that the only appropriate punishment is…
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ACTION ALERT:: ELLIS COUNTY PROSECUTOR FREES SEX OFFENDER – SPEAK OUT!
Please speak out against this outrageous move by Patrick Wilson, for the sake of my children and others out there that he WILL victimize. How can this happen years after a guilty plea?? Comments, please, petition, write your congressman, this is outrageous!!! Child sex offender cases released, charges dismissed KELLIE ROBINSON and GLEN JACKSON The…