child welfare
Woke NYC Child Services policies will result in dead black kids
Watch out, Mr. Mayor: The city Administration for Children’s Services embrace of woke ideology is all too likely to bring headlines about dead black and Hispanic kids on ACS's hands...
Two couples indicted on child abuse charges in alleged scheme to adopt kids for financial gain
Two Michigan couples have been arrested in an alleged scheme to adopt dozens of children for “financial gain” -- and then secretly subjected several of them to “systemic mental and...
Why is NYC telling teachers to not keep kids safe?
When you see something, should you say something? According to the Office of Children and Family Services, it depends on the race of the victim. New guidance released last month...
Outraged NY parent advocates demand Albany pass a 'Miranda rights' bill for child protective services
Proposed state legislation would require child welfare officials statewide to inform families of their legal rights before pressuring them to cooperate in the investigative process
Dad seeking answers after son dies in state care
Richard Blodgett, a single father, was jailed on a drug charge when a worker from Arizona's child welfare agency delivered the news: His son was brain dead and on life...
2-year-old New York boy starved to death after dad died of heart condition
Two-year-old David Conde Jr. and his dad, David Conde Sr., 59, were found dead in their apartment in Geneva, New York, in Feb. 2022. Nine months later, officials revealed their...
Liberal policies return children like Julissia Batties, 7, back to their abusive parents
So-called child welfare experts have determined that children are always better off with their parents, even if the parents have a long history of harming them and other children in...
Utah takes custody of 4-year-old whose father told him to shoot at cops: police
Sadaat Shamille Johnson allegedly instructed his son to shoot at police officers as he was being taken into custody by responding cops after McDonald’s workers called 911.
Family of murdered child services worker devastated by her 'brutal' end
The family of the Illinois child services worker who was stabbed to death while investigating a report of a "child in danger" at a home is devastated by the woman's...
Illinois child welfare worker fatally stabbed during home visit
Benjamin Reed has been arrested over the attack on 36-year-old Deidre Silas after she entered his Illinois home alone for the welfare check.
Liberals and the media couldn't care less about the true will of the American people
Progressive Democrats and the media have shown how authoritarian they are by scorning Sen. Joe Manchin for rejecting President Biden’s Build Back Better bill, James Bovard writes.
14-year-old Mexican girl jailed for fleeing arranged marriage
The 14-year-old girl, identified in local reports as Anayeli, was set to marry last Monday in Mexico’s Guerrero state along the Pacific coast after her family received $9,300 for the...
Florida mom left 2-year-old daughter at hospital with strangers: cops
Police say Carolina Vizcarra left her 2-year-old daughter at Miami's Mercy Hospital with two strangers -- including an off-duty cop on October 12, 2021.
Social justice crusaders are putting kids in foster care system at risk
The new book, "No Way to Treat a Child: How the Foster Care System, Family Courts and Racial Activists Are Wrecking Young Lives", looks at how social-justice crusading endangers kids...
Child protective caseworker busted at airport with child porn: feds
Trent Collier, a caseworker for the agency’s Division of Child Protection and Permanency, was busted Tuesday at Newark Liberty International Airport.
Mom accused of drowning son, daughter works for child welfare agency
A Nevada mother who told cops and hospital staffers she drowned her two young children has worked for a child welfare agency for three years, county officials said Thursday.
Ex-NJ child protective worker admits making child porn: feds
A former New Jersey child protective services worker admitted to taking pornographic images of a young boy in his care, federal prosecutors said. Kayan Frazier, a 28-year-old onetime caseworker for...
Child-welfare agencies' rush to go woke is terrible for the kids
How do we prevent child abuse? First, we have to stop racism. That message has lately invaded the child-welfare system. The triumph of today’s fashionable ideological nonsense in this particular...
Arizona child welfare workers fired for 'professional kidnapper' shirts
Multiple employees of the Arizona Department of Child Safety lost their jobs for wearing T-shirts that read “Professional kidnapper,” according to a report. The bright pink shirts that were apparently...
Woman allegedly left boy alone without food, water for 9 days
A Florida woman was busted for allegedly leaving a boy alone in a filthy home without food, running water or electricity for nine days.