Lessons to be learned from the case of Ellie Butler

Lessons to be learned from the case of Ellie Butler | Letters | Society | The Guardian:
Our hearts go out to the grandfather of murdered Ellie Butler, but your leader (23 June) is right that sound constitutional reasons prevent judges appearing before external agencies. However, this presents the president of the family division, James Munby, with a dilemma. He knows that a terrible mistake was made by one of his judges. He also knows that we expect lessons to be learned and that those of us involved in family cases, and the wider public, will want evidence that there have been changes and that we will not accept anodyne statements that things will be different in future.

New foster care reforms become law

New foster care reforms become law - News - WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo | 590 AM:

LANSING (WKZO-AM) -- Gov. Rick Snyder has signed into law new foster care reforms authored by Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge. The law compels the state to make every effort to keep siblings in the foster care system together.

CPS Reports Detail Warning Signs Before Orangevale Boy’s Murder

CPS Reports Detail Warning Signs Before Orangevale Boy’s Murder « CBS Sacramento:

ORANGEVALE (CBS13) — Warning signs leading to the tragic murder of a 5-year-old Orangevale boy were all over Child Protective Services documents obtained by CBS13.

Deadly Shooting Could Cost Mother Custody of Children

Deadly Shooting Could Cost Mother Custody of Children | WFMYNEWS2.com:

WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- We're learning more about the moments before, during, and after a deadly shooting in Winston-Salem.

Step-mom awaits fate in horrific child abuse case of 5-year-old Josiah Williams

Step-mom awaits fate in horrific child abuse case of 5-year-old Josiah Williams | kens5.com:

SAN ANTONIO -- It's one of the most horrific child abuse cases in Bexar County. 5-year-old Josiah Williams died two days after Christmas in 2012. He was abused, neglected and malnourished.

Don't blame an Indian adoption law for the custody fight over a Choctaw child

Don't blame an Indian adoption law for the custody fight over a Choctaw child - LA Times:

To the editor: People need to realize that the 6-year-old Choctaw girl removed from a Santa Clarita foster home would not have been with that family for more than four years if it wasn’t for the fact that they kept going to court to try to adopt a child who was not available for adoption. (“A child was taken from her foster parents because she's 1/64 Choctaw. That's cruel,” Readers React, June 16)

Woman ticketed for child abuse after child nearly drowns in hotel pool

Woman ticketed for child abuse after child nearly drowns in hotel pool - Omaha.com: Crime & Courts:

A 38-year-old woman was ticketed Sunday for misdemeanor child abuse by neglect after a child nearly drowned at a pool at an extended-stay hotel at 7010 Hascall St. on Sunday.