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Bail denied for adoptive father in murder of 6-year-old girl
Jan. 6—A Circuit Court judge denied setting bail Friday for a Waimanalo man accused of murdering his adopted 6-year-old daughter in the summer of 2021. A Circuit Court judge denied setting bail Friday for a Waimanalo man accused of murdering his adopted 6-year-old daughter in the summer of 2021. Isaac "Sonny " Kalua III and his wife, Lehua, have been held without bail at Oahu Community ...
Stephanie Olrun Pleads Guilty to Murder of Her Adopted Two-Year-Old Girl - Alaska Native News
(Bethel, AK) – On Tuesday, 36-year-old Stephanie Olrun entered a guilty plea to the charge of Murder in the Second Degree for the March 12, 2021, murder of her 2-year-old adopted daughter, Jane Olrun. Bethel Superior Court Judge Nathaniel Peters accepted Olrun’s plea to one count of Murder in the Second Degree. The charges of […]
AP Exclusive: Abusive S. Korean facility exported children
BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — A notorious South Korean facility that kidnapped, abused and enslaved children and the disabled for a generation was also shipping children overseas for adoption, part of a massive profit-seeking enterprise that thrived by exploiting those trapped within its walls, The Asso
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Family courts: Mothers dying after 'abusers' claim access to children
One death came after family courts ordered a child to live with a paedophile, a BBC investigation finds.
(PDF) Household Composition and Risk of Fatal Child Maltreatment
note: adoptees and foster youth fall under the 4.7x more likely. the 8x more likely is for children living with a parent and their unmarried partner. stop saying 8x more likely.
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Former Arizona Politician Who Ran Illegal Adoption Scheme Loses Appeal
An appeals court upheld Paul Petersen's six-year sentence in Arkansas for conspiring to smuggle people as a part of a fraudulent adoption scheme.
State spending on anti-poverty programs could substantially reduce child abuse and neglect
Public investments in benefit programs could save tens of thousands of children from being victims of child abuse and have important later-life effects on child welfare and overall health.
K-pop stars, Twitter make South Korea rethink adoptions for profit
Agencies have become too focused on profitable overseas adoptions, while vulnerable children are being commodified, critics say.
Foster kids starved, beaten and molested, reports show. Few caregivers are punished.
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Sex Abuse and the Foster Care System - Focus for Health
The foster care system is tasked with protecting the welfare of children suffering from abuse and neglect. However, many children taken from their families are subjected to sexual abuse and left in a more vulnerable and traumatized state. Several localized studies demonstrate the startling implications of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse in the foster care...