Christian worshippers leave St. Gabriel Catholic church in Abuja, Nigeria, March 22, 2020. (Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters)
A mother repeatedly threatened to murder her children, and @WisDCF wouldn’t even knock on her door to check on her kids. Eventually, she carried out her threat. https://t.co/Wbn4ei1WgY
— Lives Cut Short (@LivesCut) March 12, 2025
2. Darcy Olsen: Why foster kids need lawyers — as much as they need love
Every 15 minutes, a baby is born to one of the growing numbers of American drug addicts. I’d seen these pregnant women on city streets, disoriented and weary. I had no idea their infants were the largest group entering child protection.
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Daniel spent three weeks in intensive care, tethered to a morphine drip, fighting for his life. I expected the complications of drug withdrawals, the convulsions, shaking, and sleepless nights.
But I never imagined his life would be in jeopardy again — the next time, in a courtroom.
The state planned to return Daniel to the meth-addicted mother who abandoned him. The court required no lethality assessment, drug tests or safety checks. Daniel’s only protection was a cousin’s promise to “keep an eye on him.”
I always thought children died from abuse because no one knew what was happening behind closed doors. I was wrong. Authorities know.
3. Naomi Schaefer Riley: A Child Died in a Shelter Last Week. Why Didn’t Anyone Notice the Warning Signs?
Wouldn’t the parents’ criminal records have triggered an ACS investigation? Not necessarily. In recent years, the agency has determined that parental criminal activity and drug use are not sufficient to open an investigation for child maltreatment.
Why didn’t authorities at the homeless shelter notice something amiss with the family? Jajaira Morales, who lives at the shelter, told the New York Times that she has seen police arrest people there but doesn’t think the private security firm that the shelter hired is paying enough attention. Another resident told the Times she is pretty sure that people are using drugs in the shelter.
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Did these people have to pass any kind of criminal background check to live at this “family shelter?” The law allows such checks, but aside from excluding convicted sex offenders, the answer is: probably not.