The U.S. immigration crisis has led to the placement of 666 children, in cages, subjecting them to varying abuse and neglect from the Government which their parents sought protection. Instead of being placed in safe foster homes which the U.S. government requires of the states who remove children from the... View Article
When Florida’s child welfare system fails, the child pays the ultimate price. Far too often, warning signs are overlooked by the private agencies entrusted to care for our kids. In the case of one young boy in Osceola county, they were ignored for four years. This tragic lack of oversight... View Article
Pediatricians say they are seeing alarming injuries and deaths as the coronavirus pandemic cripples the nation’s early-warning system for child abuse. Read More Here
As reported by CBS 12, a man and a woman face aggravated child abuse charges in connection to a mute and blind quadriplegic girl being left unsupervised at a hospital in West Palm Beach. Read more here.
The Netflix documentary, “The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez,” is the tragic story about catastrophic failures of the California child welfare system that led to the torture, abuse and death of an 8-year-old boy at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend. The events might have unfolded 3,000 miles away.... View Article
As reported by News Break, “An employee at a behavioral health center in Brevard County is accused of repeatedly hitting a student while three other employees watched. An arrest affidavit details allegations of child abuse from an incident by an employee at Deveraux Advanced Behavioral Health Facility in Viera on... View Article
As reported today by the Miami Herald, “A Miami mother will spend the rest of her life in prison after pleading guilty Friday for her role in the starvation, torture and murder of her adopted daughter in a case that rocked Florida’s child welfare agency.” Read the entire story here
Tragically, children in foster care are raped and physically assaulted at shelters like Youth Haven that are not equipped to address the individual therapeutic needs of children. The Fort Myers News Press has started a five-part series that offers an up-close look into the world of Anber, “who drifted in... View Article
In what has been described by Miami-Dade police and the Department of Children and Families as “one of the most horrifying cases of abuse they have seen,” Local 10 WPLG reports that a Miami foster mother is facing abuse charges for the alleged abuse of three girls, ranging in ages from... View Article
“Foster Boy” is a legal thriller about the abuse of an African-American kid in the foster system. As reported by Deadline, “the screenwriter for the film Foster Boy won a $45M judgment against a social services agency — the largest award in the history of the state of Illinois in a... View Article