Here are today's headlines.
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TEENAGERS are the overlooked and vulnerable in Central Queensland's foster care system, according to AnglicareCQ.
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PONTIAC — The life sentence of a foster mother convicted of murder was reduced to 38 years Tuesday after a judge issued a new sentence in the 2011 death of a 4-year-old girl placed in the woman's care.
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TULSA, Oklahoma - A former Green Country foster care worker is heading to prison.
Timothy Cheatwood pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexually abusing a 6-year-old boy, as well as making and distributing child pornography involving that child.
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MUSKEGON COUNTY, MI - A 69-year-old Muskegon area man is accused of sexually assaulting a mentally disabled foster care resident at his home.
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Kansas Department for Children and Families secretary Phyllis Gilmore says the state agency tasked with overseeing the child welfare system is trying to increase the number of foster parents it has to take care of kids. Some children have had to stay overnight in foster care contractors’ offices while they wait for a home.
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It’s been six years since Vanessa took in her brother’s grandchildren, but it is only in the last couple of weeks, with their start at a new school — Immaculate Conception in Astoria — that she knows “everything will be all right.” Thanks to a scholarship from the Children’s Scholarship Fund, they are finally in a “quiet” and “loving” school.
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GOLDEN, COLO. - A grand jury has returned a 22-count indictment against Richelle Schultz, a former Jefferson County Department of Human Services caseworker accused of falsifying information.
More >> Former JeffCo caseworker tasked with investigating child abuse accused of falsying information
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minneapolis couple says they are trying to give a 6-year-old girl a better life, but tribal law is preventing that from happening.
More >> ‘She’s Our Daughter’: Couple Blocked From Adopting Girl Fights For Parental Rights
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Trent Thorburn is seeking to be released on bail as he appeals his four-year sentence for incest and perjury relating to his foster sister Tiahleigh Palmer.
Thorburn has been in custody since he was charged in September 2016 with having sex with the 12-year-old in the days before her death.
More >> Incest foster brother Trent Thorburn wants bail as he appeals sentence
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Foster carers Penelope and Ronald Jones, aged 71 and 88 respectively, found themselves thrust into the national spotlight when counter-terrorism police raided their terraced home in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, following the arrest of an 18-year-old at Dover on Saturday in connection with the Parsons Green bombing.
More >> 'Beautiful people': the foster carers raided by counter-terrorism police
- Parsons Green bombing: Police cordon off home of second refugee foster child
- Why were foster parents not told about 'troubled past' of Parsons Green 'bomber'? Devastated couple 'learned more about suspect's background in three days from police than council ever told them'
- London Tube attack suspects were foster children, officials say
- Despair of foster couple who welcomed 'bucket bomber' refugees into their home
- UK police quiz 2 ex-foster children over London subway bomb
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A Sacramento agency running one of the few remaining foster care shelters in California has violated health and safety laws and the personal rights of children more than 120 times in recent years — a number matched only by state-licensed facilities that have been shut down or placed on probation.
More >> Numerous violations cited at Sacramento foster care shelter campus
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A former Lackawanna County Office of Youth and Family Services caseworker who claims she was fired for seeking medical leave actually was terminated because she approved of allowing a teenager accused of sexually abusing a neighborhood child to baby-sit his siblings, the county says in court records.
More >> County says CYS caseworker was fired for neglect of duty
Also a friend of mine does foster care. She had several took In a tean and adopted him he touched the other boys in the home. Went to jail for it all the other kids taken off her. Cys never told her the child they took in them later adopted was already found of touching another little boy so allowed these other kids to be in danger so they can quickly get him adopted out before he turned 18
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