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Infamous Cases
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| These journalists report on many child protection cases, or deal
with the system as a whole.
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| Deaths
| December 2006. A San Francisco Chronicle editorial shows that
child protectors conceal deaths of their wards, even when there
is a state law requiring full disclosure.
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| Lethal Lapses
| November 2006. An American newspaper discovers
that in cases of child death, child protectors
alter their records to cover their mistakes.
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| Aliah
| Mother Jones exposes how drug companies collude
with government agencies to force psychotropic
drugs on children.
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| Troy Anderson
| Los Angeles reporter Troy Anderson has written a
number of articles on foster care in California.
The link is to a collection of his articles by
AFRA, some annotated.
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Stephen Baskerville
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[2]
| Professor Stephen Baskerville in two video
interviews, the first in 2002 primarily on
divorce, the second in 2005 to a fathers
conference in Detroit on the impact of family
law. These are long files suitable only for
high-speed internet connections.
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| Dave Brown
| Dave Brown is a now retired reporter for the Ottawa Citizen. We
have stored a collection of 34 of his articles on the subject of
Children's Aid.
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| California
| An editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle shows the futility
of a 2004 law requiring disclosure of the records of children
dying in foster care. The law has little effect in the face of
determined foot-dragging by social services.
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| Cavendish
| July 2008. A series in the London Times by Camilla Cavendish on
the secrecy of family law, the the resulting injustices.
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| Nancy Crane
| This 1998 article describes the relationship between Children's
Aid and the press, including large amounts of concealment by
child protectors, and successful efforts to plant suggested
"reforms" in newspaper articles.
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| De Sá
| (2008) Karen de Sá comments on the railroading of children
through family courts, and resulting legislation to alleviate
the problem.
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| Durham
| (August 2008) Durham Ontario newspaper reports on children's
aid, actually propaganda for social services.
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| Eddy
| Mad Nazi Dream of Racial Purity Revealed by Melissa
Eddy (May 2007). An article about two survivors of the Nazi
Lebensborn program to breed the master race.
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| Fenske
| Arizona journalist Sarah Fenske on the secrecy of child
protection. (September 2007)
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| FI
| A Swedish political party proposes to abolish
marriage.
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| Franklin
| Robert Franklin opines on the use, and misuse, of the phrase:
"best interest of the child".
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Foster- carceration
| A report from Washington state that showing that foster care is
just another form of prison.
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Freedom
sidebar
| The Church of Scientology reports on child protection.
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| Gordon
| Akka Gordon was a caseworker for New York ACS for a year in
1998-99. She writes of her experiences. Workers are pressed to
classify every child's home as dangerous. The main condition
for hiring is that the applicant is alive. A caseworker gets
fired for telling a judge the truth.
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| Graff
| EJ Graff, The Lie We Love. A researcher exposes the
corruption in international adoption.
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Grigg
archive
Grigg
| Beware the Child Protectors by William Norman Grigg in the New
American, publication of the John Birch Society.
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| Heleniak
| (February 2007) Lawyer David Heleniak describes the methods
prosecutors use to end marriages in domestic violence cases. He
does not deal with the other kind of shotgun divorce, initiated
by the child protection system.
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| Hession
| This is Child Protection? Massachusetts family lawyer
Gregory Hession writes in the July 23, 2007 issue of the New
American. Following that is the cover story, Families
Separated by the State. Yet another cover story, September
17, 2007, Behavior Worth Medicating, deals with forced
drugging of children under pretext of treatment for psychiatric
disorders.
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| Cassandra Jardine
| Cassandra Jardine writes on England's secret family
courts.
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| Arthur Kane
| (2008) The Denver Post reports that outside agencies hired to
provide an independent review of problems with child protection
are not at all independent.
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| Rick Kern
| A religious journalist comments on Child Protective Services and
Children's Aid.
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| Donna Laframboise
| Journalist who writes on Canadian family law. This link is now
dead. We hope to restore it to a current link to her
work.
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[2]
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| Wendy McElroy.
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| Nev Moore
| Nev Moore in the Sierra Times describes the processes that
amount to defrauding the appropriations for child protection.
(October 2002)
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| Newcome
| An interview with a former caseworker giving a candid view of
child protection from the inside.
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| Palmer
| June 2008, Secret Justice, Private Hell, a survey of injustice
in Britain's family courts.
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| Rabun
| A newspaper reports on a child protection agency running out of
control in Rabun County Georgia. June 2006.
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| Riben
| Big Business In Babies: Adoption, The Child Commodities
Market by Mirah Riben (April 2007). A thoughtful and
well-researched article on the failings of today's adoption
system.
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| Ratalin
| Ritalin's reign and Doctor's orders. These
unsigned sidebars from the Globe and Mail (June 2007) give many
facts about psychotropic drug use by children in
Canada.
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| Andrée Ruffo
| CBC's The Fifth Estate does a profile of Quebec Judge Andree
Ruffo in March 2006. She incurred the wrath of the social
services bureaucracy by failing to give them everything they
demanded.
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| Saroian
| Guest columnist Jenifer Saroian describes child protection in Oregon.
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| Shell
| Colorado-based Westword magazine profiles family advocate
Suzanne Shell. It includes cases of excessive harshness to
families as a means of discrediting their advocates.
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| Margaret Talbot
| The New Yorker Magazine of August 9, 2005 has an article "The
Bad Mom" debunking Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP or MSP).
It includes a narrative of the case of the Ottawa Ontario
deSousa family.
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| taser
| Let's Talk About Tasers, also The Taser and Men's Rights
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| Ray Thomas
| A blog devoted to child protection, centering on
Colorado.
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| FOI
| An article by James Wallace of Osprey Media displays the kind of
investigative journalism normally only seen in the American
press. Ontario's government agencies at all levels routinely
deny requests for information from the public, even routine
requests. Freedom of information requests are stymied with
legal exceptions.
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| Weintraub
| Unusual Suspects by Pamela Weintraub in Psychology
Today (October 2007) A profile of a mother falsely accused of
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, deliberately harming a member of
her own family.
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| Wexler
| Richard Wexler describes three ways not to solve the child abuse
problem, August 2006.
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| Woffinden
| In this article in the New Statesman published in January 2000,
Bob Woffinden shows how secrecy laws ostensibly protecting
children really facilitate the destruction of the lives of
children and their families.
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| Word
| Word Magazine, based in Buffalo New York, on Freedom
Village.
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| Infamous Cases
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| The following articles deal with infamous cases
of child protection.
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| Alexander
| Sue Reid follows twenty years of the life of Lawrence Alexander
seized from his parents as a baby on a junk science theory of
abuse and subject to medical experiments that may be responsible
for turning him into a permanent invalid.
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| Alice
| Cassandra Jardine describes what life is like in
foster care. Note the policy of separating a
child from foster parents once they become
attached to the child.
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| Anonymous
| Salon on a family raped by therapists.
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| Jeffrey Baldwin
| Christie Blatchford's in-depth report on the death of Jeffrey
Baldwin, placed in the home of his incompetent grandparents by
the Catholic Children's Aid Society of Toronto. The page
includes some articles on the sentencing of the foster parents,
and a commentary.
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| Bayne
| Christina England writes at length on the Bayne case, three
children removed from parents on shaken baby allegations.
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| Lisa Bierly
| Lisa Bierly had her children stolen in Utah. A child with
medical needs was neglected in care, the mother was not allowed
to give evidence to the court, the family lawyer did not bring
out important points in defense, the lawyer for social services
vilified the family. A functionary of the child protection
system tried to use it as a source of a child for her own
adoption. And even after acknowledging that the removal was
unjustified, the state would not give the kids back. The
children identified by the pseudonyms Michael and Katie appear
in other sources as Jordan and Leigh. You can reach Lisa
Bierly at lsbierly @ yahoo.com (but remove the spaces around the
at sign).
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| Blackman
| A case in which hysteria over child-abuse destroyed a teenager.
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Candace
more
| Story of a girl's removal by child protectors and murder by
therapists.
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| Chalupowski
| Writer Mac Koch-Lebel details the reduction of the Chalupowski
family from millions of dollars in accumulated net worth to
nothing through a conspiracy of lawyers and judges.
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| Sherry Charlie
| Sherry Charlie was taken from her mother by
child protectors in British Columbia and
murdered at the age of nineteen
months.
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| ChildNet
| The FBI raids the offices of ChildNet in Florida
finding evidence of corruption.
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| Clark
| A young woman, Katrina Clark, born of an
anonymous sperm donation, draws attention to the
fact that reproductive technologies are not just
about satisfying the needs of parents.
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| Cleveland
| In 1988 a junk-science anal dialation test
justified removal of hundreds of children from
their parents for sexual abuse. In case the
link expires, do a search on "Cleveland
scandal".
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| Dugay
| A Main legislator is excluded by child protectors.
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| Dunsmore
| A social worker loses his own children because
of an accidental broken bone.
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| Duong
| (July 2008) A Vietnamese couple living in Minnesota were
suspected in the death of a child in 2001, but never charged.
When they give birth again, the child was seized in the delivery
room and their parental rights were terminated. The parents now
regret their decision to live in "freedom" in the USA.
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| Finck / VandenElsen
| Carline VandenElsen and Larry Finck were
surrounded by Halifax police in a three-day
standoff aimed at seizing their newborn baby.
News reports on the trial.
News
reports on the trial aftermath.
Halifax
Herald series giving the full story of both
families.
Stephen Kimber comments on the case.
Commentary blog by André
Lefebvre.
News blog by André Lefebvre.
Blog
by Connie Brauer.
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Most Wanted Mother
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| Fredrickson
| A mother gives away a baby without informing the father of her
pregnancy. When he finds out, he petitions for custody, and a
DNA test confirms his paternity. The case becomes infamous when
the mother's new car raises suspicion of illegal payments, and
the family with custody requests child support payments from the
father. Father Rick
Fredrickson has his own website
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| Gagnon
| (2008) A Sudbury mother, Lianne Gagnon, is exonerated by police
in the death of her baby. A second more harsh investigation two
years later also exonerates her. Nevertheless, her second child
is taken by CAS based on the opinion of pathologist Dr Charles
Smith, who later admitted his incompetence.
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| Gilbert
| (2008) Alloma Gilbert writes of her experiences as a foster
child. While not all foster parents are as bad as Eunice Spry,
multiple foster placements make it likely that a foster child
will encounter at least one foster mom from hell.
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| Gravelle
| Annette M Hall has assembled a multi-media
account of the case of Sharen and Mike Gravelle,
accused of abusing eleven adoptive children by
keeping them in cages. This is a dumping-ground
case. Where normal people have to wait years to
adopt one child, social services unloads large
numbers of difficult children on one adoptive
family. If it does not come to light, they are
rid of their problems, but if it does, the
adoptive parents make credible scapegoats.
Watch the video and decide whether the Gravelles
were monsters.
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| Haut
| A former school in Jersey, Haut de la Garenne, was revealed to
be a torture center for children during the 1960's and 1970's.
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| Hull
| Homosexuals Paul Hull and Erwin Swender turn an
Oklahoma orphanage into a pedophile paradise.
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| Krantz
| The kidnapping of the Krantz children in Arkansas. In the
video, you can watch cattle graders sorting the kids.
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Montero
Zook
| Douglas Montero of the New York Post breaks the
story of foster children used as guinea pigs in
drug tests. A later article by Kristal Brent
Zook in Essence magazine recaps the story. Eugene Weixel has a blog dedicated to this
scandal.
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| Massachusetts News reports on shotgun divorce.
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| Stephanie Jobin
| An autism advocacy group has collected newspaper
articles on the death of Stephanie Jobin at the
hands of child protectors. They also include
the inquest
recommendations.
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| Keys
| A family suffers loss of children, falsification
of records by social workers and shotgun divorce
all apparently to satisfy goals for adoption.
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| Emily Lake
| A girl is maced and removed from her mother.
The US~Observer does not reach the journalistic
standards of a daily newspaper, but the
mainstream press has totally ignored this story.
Our own news page also has two articles, the
first on August 10,
2005, the second on August
14.
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| Liggins
| The mother in a subsidized adoption abondons her
children in Nigeria.
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| Lozano
| (Feburary 2007). In this case from Texas the
press gets away from the freak cases, and deals
with the most typical child protection case, the
single mom. CPS intervenes in a family with
problems and makes those problems even worse.
Child protectors offer the mother a "Sophie's
Choice": You can have some of your kids as long
as we get the rest. When a girl runs away and
the family really need help, they get the cold
shoulder. A digression shows how all problems,
even intentional failures by child protectors,
result in more money for the child protection
system.
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| Liam Lucas
| Tolerance allows pedophiles, masquerading as the
now-protected homosexual, to infiltrate child
protection agencies and foster homes, even
classifying young boys as gay, in order to pass
them off to their friends for sodomy.
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Maricela Marcu
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[2]
| A refugee from communist Romania gets even
harsher treatment from British Columbia child
protectors in this case from 1998.
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Logan Marr
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[2]
Suppression
| In January 2001 5-year-old Logan Marr died at
the hands of employees of the Maine Department
of Human Services. These reports by Terrilyn
Simpson, as long as a short novel, are in pdf.
The first deals with the seizure and murder of
Logan, the second, written four years later,
describes the indifference of elected
politicians to parents. She mentions this
photograph of Governor Angus
King brandishing duct tape. Here is another
program by PBS.
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| Gordon MacRae
| Dorothy Rabinowitz writes in the Wall Street Journal on the
story of Father Gordon MacRae, a Catholic priest serving time
for sexually abusing clients. According to the article, the
acts of abuse never occurred, but were part of a successful
design to raid the Catholic Church for damages.
Dorothy Rabinowitz was the first journalist to question the
truth of allegations of ritual satanic abuse in the 1980's,
writing articles in the same paper exposing the cases of Kelly
Michaels in New Jersey and the Amirault family in Massachusetts.
Perhaps a similar series of articles could do in the child
protection juggernaut.
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| Douglas Moore
| Douglas Moore, a homicidal pedophile, was an assistant to a
foster family in Belfountain Ontario. This two-part series from
the Toronto Star describes his life. This is the kind of care
your child could get from children's aid.
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| Osbourne
| A mother unsuccessfully tries to kill dad, then children's aid
gives her their daughter.
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| Owen
| (November 2007). A mother is falsely accused of Munchausen
Syndrome by Proxy and her only daughter goes into foster care.
Reported by the (mainstream) Boston Globe.
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| Arthur
| (May 2008). Melinda Pillsbury-Foster describes a chilling visit
from social services.
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| Christine Purcell
| A British social worker avoids jail after found guilty of
perjury. The judge found that no other social worker had been
caught lying. This image may take some time to load.
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| Tember Rector
| A foster parent is convicted of abusing a
two-year-old boy.
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| Shaday
| A baby girl is needlessly removed from her
parents. Under the tab "Families vs Government"
there are several more child protection stories,
including the Stratton case.
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| Siler
| On July 8, 2004 police went to the home of Lester Eugene Siler in Tennessee. They asked
his wife to leave with his child so that they could speak to him alone. Before leaving,
his wife turned on a tape recorder, creating the linked recording (19 megabytes mp3). It
includes threats, probably now routine in police work, to harm the suspect's wife and
child. This is a very disturbing recording, not for the squeamish.
[06:12] Officer Franklin: No... You listen to me. You listen to me. Let me tell
you what's gonna happen. If you don't sign, I'm gonna go right back there where your
wife's at, and I'm gonna put her ass in jail. I'm calling the Department of Human
Services and I'm gonna take your fucking kids from you today.
and later:
[25:10] Officer Webber: Eugene, sign it buddy, or we're gonna go down and git your
wife. You want us to do that?
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| Smolin
| When David and Desiree Smolin discovered the teenaged girls they
adopted were stolen from their mother, they took an unusual
course of action. They spent years finding the mother,
eventually reuniting the girls with her. The story from ABC
suggests adoptions of stolen children are rare, but in the US,
Canada and the UK it appears most adoptions through child
protection agencies fit this pattern.
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| Steiner
| Dr Daryl Steiner of Cleveland diagnoses cases of subdural
hematoma as shaken baby syndrome, even among newborns who got
the injury during natural childbirth.
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| Stuth
| Internet journalist Virginia McCullough reports on a case in
which the state of Washington took a toddler from a mother and
grandparents. They would have succeeded but for the
intervention of a state senator and a television station.
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| Utah
| A four-year start-finish tale of family destruction. In cases
that end in adoption, real names can be used, since the children
are no longer known by those names.
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| Wenatchee
| The New American, a publication of the John
Birch Society, describes the Wenatchee witch
hunt. It contains a brief portrait of Robert
Perez, shattering the myth that child-protectors
are dedicated public servants motivated only to
protect children.
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| Wanda Young
| A social worker's career is destroyed in this
story of a wolf devoured by other wolves. The
article details the steps by which an unfounded
accusation results in total destruction for the
victim, the same process by which the wolves
normally devour sheep.
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