While Howard Talenfeld and the attorneys at Talenfeld Law can’t exactly sic Casey on perpetrators accused of child abuse, sexual abuse or other physical harm against children, we do have the resources to bring predators to justice. For more than a generation, our attorneys have fought for the rights of... View Article
Trash, feces, bug infestation and a setting one judge called “an immediate danger” to the six children inside, is the circumstances child abuse authorities discovered this week in a Central Florida home. The discovery begs child advocates and those who work to prevent child neglect to ask how parents can... View Article
When a Broward pastor was found guilty this month on federal sex abuse charges, it repeated the message common among child abuse advocates and the attorneys and lawyers who fight to protect children from child sexual abuse: predators are all around us. Church youth pastor Jeffery London was found guilty... View Article
Among Florida foster child abuse attorneys and child advocates from Miami and Fort Lauderdale to throughout the state, it’s no secret that the Florida Department of Children and Family’s experiment in privatization of child welfare services has been a failure. Hundreds of children, many known to DCF officials to be... View Article
This document, by Daniel Pollack, a professor at Yeshiva University, School of Social Work, New York City, and a frequent expert witness in child abuse and foster care abuse cases, explores the role of videotaping investigative interviews with children suspected of having been sexually abused. The U.S. Supreme Court has not... View Article
When Mike Carroll, secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families, told panel committees from the Florida House and Senate in the wake of Phoebe Jonchuck’s death at the foot of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge earlier this month that a “sad irony” had also occurred, it highlighted a stark... View Article
In an important win for Florida’s most vulnerable children – and the doctors and advocates who serve them, a U.S. federal judge this week ruled that the state’s healthcare system for those children violates various federal laws. The move follows a decade-long battle by pediatricians who care for those kids,... View Article
Preeminent foster child abuse lawyer and staunch advocate for child welfare reform in the state capital, Howard Talenfeld, was named a finalist as one of this year’s Most Effective Lawyers by the Daily Business Review. Talenfeld, who recently opened Talenfeld Law, one of Florida’s first law firms dedicated to protecting... View Article