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Why We Hate Lawsuits (Eric Dean’s grandmother sues county & social workers...
The most painful thing about the Eric Dean lawsuit (aside from the sadness of a four-year old boy tortured to death over years by his step mother Amanda Peltier) is reliving the abuse that led to his...
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Minnesota Child Protection News March 2017
KARA gathers news about abused Minnesota’s abused children every month and provides a snapshot of Child Protection and how our state values its children. If you are an aspiring writer/reporter, KARA...
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Child Abuse – Numbers & Why They Matter (thank you Chris Serres & Star Tribune)
Yesterday’s Star Tribune reporting by Chris Serres that child abuse reports in this state have almost doubled since 2009 is not the end of the story. Funding for 108 social workers in response to the...
View ArticleThank God For Lawyers, Lawsuits & the Star Tribune
Today’s Star Tribune reporting on the civil rights lawsuit for abused children (by reporter Chris Serres) validates my belief that child rape and other crimes against children are the most ignored and...
View ArticleA Star Tribune Mistake (impacting millions of children each year)
"Did you all see the article in the Science and Health section of the Sunday Star Tribune? - ”Study will look at the role of childhood stress in adult disease”. There is a line in there that says, to...
View ArticleA Note to Brandon Stahl & the Tribune (abused children still need you)
It is only because you found the death of 4 year-old Eric Dean suspicious and dedicated yourself to reporting on the awful circumstances that killed him after 15 ignored reports of child abuse, that...
View ArticleFoster Mom Charged With Breaking Bones of 7-Week Old Foster Boy (thank you...
Abused and neglected State Ward children have already suffered enough when they enter foster care. To be removed from a birth home by a judge means that the child's life has been in imminent danger of...
View ArticleHospitals Turning Away Patients In Real Need (nothing to be proud of)
Thank you Chris Serres for reporting on the troubling development at St Joseph's Hospital in Brainerd. This is one of our community’s (nation’s) most serious health problems. St Joe's failure to admit...
View ArticleA Week After Redlake (from 2005 – what’s changed?)
Jeff let many people know his homicidal/suicidal thoughts. There was simply no help available for a very troubled young man. The suffering of the living will go on for many years. If you know anyone...
View ArticleProsecuting Legislators (can this work?)
A single Minneapolis hospital, HCMC sees 800 to 1000 emergency psychiatric visits a month (one of many metro hospitals). There have never been enough beds and there will never be enough Prozac to...
View ArticleHouse of Horrors (not investigating = not caring)
Twin girls beaten with bats, starved, raped and chained over 12-15 years on the 4200 block of 17th Av South in Minneapolis. Over 50 police calls to the home, developmentally disabled and pregnant in...
View ArticleChild Protection and Appreciating Social Workers (we really should)
Christopher Sorenson recently wrote a compelling piece in the Star Tribune about animal safety as the foundation underlying our current child protection system and how only extreme cases of child abuse...
View ArticleChild Protection – What Needs To Change
It is not foster parents, social workers, judges or court workers making life miserable and creating a lifetime of failure for abused and neglected children in the Child Protection system. These people...
View ArticleWhat’s a Well Trained Social Worker Worth?
It hurts me to know that I live in a state that pays the least of almost all states in training social workers and continues to underfund the federally mandated guardian ad litem program so severely...
View ArticleChild Protection and Appreciating Social Workers (we really should)
Christopher Sorenson recently wrote a compelling piece in the Star Tribune about animal safety as the foundation underlying our current child protection system and how only extreme cases of child abuse...
View ArticleLet’s Stop Counties Stealing Money From Foster Children
Repurposing Federal Foster Care dollars have become a “revenue stream” for counties because taking foster child money goes “unnoticed” (from the article). In a perfect world, a County person would...
View ArticleChild Protection and Appreciating Social Workers (we really should)
Christopher Sorenson recently wrote a compelling piece in the Star Tribune about animal safety as the foundation underlying our current child protection system and how only extreme cases of child abuse...
View ArticleChild Protection – What Needs To Change
It is not foster parents, social workers, judges or court workers making life miserable and creating a lifetime of failure for abused and neglected children in the Child Protection system. These people...
View ArticleMental Health, Prozac, Holding Pens, Children & Sheriffs – (why nurses,...
Today’s Star Tribune article about hospitals without the capacity to deal with the surge in emergency psych visits relates directly to the sheriff’s (Washington, Ramsey and Hennepin Counties) threat to...
View ArticleMinnesota At Risk Children’s News June 2016
Child Victims Act expires, but effects remain to be seen Duluth News Tribune The U.S. Bankruptcy Court reported that 125 abuse claims were filed ... It's been a little more than a week since the...
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