Woman gives up fight to adopt niece

Woman gives up fight to adopt niece | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
A Cameroonian woman who spent the last two years in the United States fighting in the Allegheny County court system to adopt her niece will head back to her home next week alone. Catherine Gana was unsuccessful in her efforts to adopt the 6-year-old girl who has spent the last four years in foster care with a woman in Penn Hills.

 Again Relative Placement is ignored by the Family Court Judges who make up their own rules!!!!! Abolish Title IV funding and see how fast these Judges uphold the Law!

Again Relative Placement is ignored by the Family Court Judges who make up their own rules!!!!! Abolish Title IV funding and see how fast these Judges uphold the Law!Again Relative Placement is ignored by the Family Court Judges who make up their own rules!!!!! Abolish Title IV funding and see how fast these Judges uphold the Law!

Again Relative Placement is ignored by the Family Court Judges who make up their own rules!!!!! Abolish Title IV funding and see how fast these Judges uphold the Law!

Again Relative Placement is ignored by the Family Court Judges who make up their own rules!!!!! Abolish Title IV funding and see how fast these Judges uphold the Law!

Ohio social worker less trusting a decade after boy's death

Ohio social worker less trusting a decade after boy's death - Clay Center Dispatch On-Line: State:

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio social worker says he's less trusting a decade after a 3-year-old special-needs child he was in charge of died when the boy's foster parents bound him with duct tape and placed him in a tiny, hot closet for several days without food or water.

Royal commission finds South Australian child protection system must be overhauled | Australia news | The Guardian

Royal commission finds South Australian child protection system must be overhauled | Australia news | The Guardian:

South Australia’s “toxic” child protection system has failed the state’s most vulnerable children and must be overhauled, a royal commission has found.In her final report after two years of investigations, the former supreme court justice Margaret Nyland has called for dramatic changes to what she has described as a system in crisis.

Adoptive Parents accused of child abuse, jailed in Pike County

Parents accused of child abuse, jailed in Pike County - News - poconorecord.com - Stroudsburg, PA:

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been changed to add the age of the child, and to update the status of the parents as adoptive. The criminal complaint had described the parents as fosters.
Two Pike County parents are being held in Pike County Correctional Facility after police responded to their home and discovered the 14-year old child they were supposed to be caring for was being abused, their criminal complaints say.

Lawmakers begin study of Idaho's foster care system

Lawmakers begin study of Idaho's foster care system | News | magicvalley.com:

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Idaho foster care parents are urging lawmakers to reform the current state system, saying that foster care bureaucracy has caused unnecessary heartache and frustration.

I-TEAM: Foster-child deaths contribute to crisis shortage of foster parents

I-TEAM: Foster-child deaths contribute to crisis shortage of foster parents - Story:

CINCINNATI – Every time a foster child dies from abuse or neglect, many good foster parents drop out of the system, Moira Weir says.

10 years later, impact of Marcus Fiesel's murder still felt

10 years later, impact of Marcus Fiesel's murder still felt:

HAMILTON - It could have ruined him. Marcus Fiesel was murdered 10 years ago, bound with tape and placed in a tiny closet at his foster parents' home in Clermont County.