For children who are victims of physical abuse and sexual abuse, the Florida child welfare system is designed to find and help children in its care. So imagine the horror of a 17-year-old girl who had been a victim of forced prostitution, only to later allegedly be given alcohol and... 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
Florida’s Children First, the state’s premier advocacy organization supporting foster children state-wide, strives to work closely with other groups and services that highlight the challenges and successes of foster kids throughout Florida. FCF thanks Forever Family, Gia Tutalo-Mote and their affiliates for documenting Florida Youth SHINE’s efforts this year to... View Article
To any advocate or attorney who works to protect abused children, neglected kids or others at harm, when a foster child or a child with his or her family dies under the watch of family or a state agency or organization tasked with his or her care, that epitomizes a... View Article
Florida foster child abuse attorney Howard Talenfeld holds a press conference after filing a lawsuit on behalf of a foster child who claims he was groomed and sexually abused by an alleged known child molester-turned-foster parent. The lawsuit was filed against the alleged abuser and child welfare providers Kids In... View Article
A Florida foster child who claims he was sexually abused by an allegedly known sexual predator has filed a lawsuit against Broward County child welfare administrators who placed him in the home of a man suspected of child molestation. The lawsuit claims officials with Kids In Distress and ChildNet failed... View Article
South Florida child abuse attorney and child sexual abuse lawyer Howard Talenfeld was interviewed this week on CBS News regarding the case of 3-year-old Ahziya Osceola. The Seminole Indian boy was discovered abused and dead in his Hollywood home after his family had reported him missing. Now, charges have been... View Article
It’s becoming an all too common refrain in Florida. Gabriel Myers, Tamiya Audain, Antwone Hope and Now Ahzia Osceola slipped through the cracks of Broward’s Child welfare system and died. A child dies or suffers serious child abuse, sexual abuse or neglect at the hands of his parents, guardians or... View Article
Children’s rights attorney Howard M. Talenfeld, Managing Partner of Talenfeld Law, was recently selected as a finalist for South Florida Business & Wealth’s 2015 Leaders in Law Awards. This is the second year of this awards event, which was created to honor the lawyers, law firms, and corporate counsel that... View Article