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🖤 Black Out for Thanksgiving: The Day We Refuse to Pretend
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DHR Confirmed Abuse. A Child’s Arm Was Broken. These DHR Workers Let the Daycare Walk Free.
This is our second report concerning a beautiful little girl whose arm was broken while at a daycare in Dothan, Alabama.
Three-year-old Xylah, a nonverbal autistic child whose well-being was entrusted to the staff at...
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Opinion | Almost Twenty Years Later, Nothing Has Changed
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Seventeen years after Nancy Schaefer’s warning, families are still fighting to be heard. The system hasn’t changed. It has simply gotten better at hiding.
In 2007, State Senator Nancy...
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Denver CPS Worker Accused of Falsifying Abuse Reports and Manipulating Families
A Denver child protective services caseworker is now facing criminal charges after allegedly fabricating child abuse allegations and filing false reports in multiple family investigations, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office.
The worker, identified...
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Where Are the Good Ones?
If you're watching families be destroyed and saying nothing... are you really good?
Across courtrooms, case files, and foster homes, the phrase echoes: “There are good workers in the system.” It’s often said in defense of agencies...
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The False Report
When They Lie on Paper to Destroy Your Life in Real Time
It starts with one report. One sentence. One story written by someone who doesn’t know your truth but has the power to erase...