PRINTABLE PAGE Strained System Often Splits Up Siblings in Foster Care By Rebecca Cook for The Associated PressOriginally published by The Associated Press, July 22, 2001 ABERDEEN — After JoAnn McGuckin was arrested and charged with child neglect in Bonner…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Gay Couples Should Be Allowed To Adopt Children, Doctors Group Says By Terri Somers, Staff WriterOriginally published in the Sun-Sentinel, February 4, 2002 Children of loving gay parents are as well adjusted as any and they deserve the…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Bid to Adopt Baby Gets Challenge Today Mom vanished before learning of her rights By L.l. Brasier And Kathleen Gray, Free Press Staff WritersOriginally published in the Detroit Free Press, May 15, 2001 Everyone involved in the case…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Report Decried Giving Drugs to Kids Consultant studied Florida centers for foster care By Carol Marbin MillerOriginally Published in The Miami Herald, May 11, 2001 A consultant hired by the state Department of Children & Families to study…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Feds: Woman Trafficked Vermont Girls to NYC By Dean SchabnerOriginally broadcast by ABC News, December 14, 2001 A Burlington, Vt., woman accused of luring a dozen girls and young women from Vermont to work as prostitutes in New…
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PRINTABLE PAGE State Agency to Pay $5 Million to 6 Sexually Abused Children By Megan O’Matz and Shana GruskinOriginally published in the Sun-Sentinel, May 17, 2002 Florida’s Department of Children & Families has agreed to pay $5 million to settle…
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PRINTABLE PAGE I.N.S. Both Jailer and Parent to Children Without Nation By Eric SchmittOriginally published in The New York Times, June 24, 2001 MIAMI, June 18 — For more than 13 months, an 8-year-old Nigerian girl with pigtails and a…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Lingering Hope By Sherry LeeOriginally published in the South China Morning News, July 26, 2001 Time is running out for Po Wai-han. Doctors have given the young single mother just months to live. She has undergone four operations…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Dead Girl’s Kin Sue Adoption Agency By Jennifer M. FitzenbergerOriginally published by The Fresno Bee, March 15, 2002 Five siblings of a murdered child on Wednesday sued the agency that placed them in the home of Angela Thompson.…
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PRINTABLE PAGE Abused Foster Children Win $3.3 Million Settlement Originally published by The Associated Press, May 25, 2001 CHICAGO (AP) — A federal jury awarded $3.3 million to three children who were physically and emotionally abused while in foster care.…