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Appeal Filed by Mom Who Got High While Pregnant
30-year-old Melissa Lee Jones is currently behind bars in the St. Joseph County Jail, having been convicted of First Degree Child Abuse. Ultimately she is assigned to serve out her time at Huron Valley Complex, a women’s prison, where there are a number of people incarcerated for exactly the same reason. But what is interesting…
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Woman Arrested in Florida After Kidnapping Her Two Daughters
It seems strange to think that a person could be charged with kidnapping when the children they are accused of taking were their own. After all, how could it be kidnapping when you took your own kids? Aren’t they your kids, that you can go anywhere with? The answer is no, because when the court…
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Foster Parent Charged For Sexually Assaulting a Minor
61-year-old Jackie Lee Pittman, a licensed foster parent and Macomb County Adoption Board member, is accused of raping a teenaged girl. Although there are no foster children currently living with Pittman since his wife passed away from cancer four months ago, the allegations are said to stem from an incident that took place in July…
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Woman Charged For Giving Alcohol To a Toddler
64-year-old Deborah A. Holloway of Muskegon has been charged with child abuse for allegedly giving alcohol to a child that she was caring for. Based on the fat that she has a substantial criminal record, Holloway may end up behind bars for more than a decade, if convicted. According to Muskegon County Chief Assistant Prosecutor…
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Missing Port Huron Boy Found, Father Arrested
39-year-old Douglas Edwin Ball Jr., a resident of Port Huron, MI, is facing very serious charges for the alleged kidnapping of his young son and the possible murder of his son’s mother. Authorities say that there are still many details that they have to work out, and the case is still under investigation, but the…
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Former Tennis Coach Accused of Molesting Michigan Girls
Christopher Pearson, a 49-year-old current resident of Marco Island, Florida, originally lived in the Lansing area in Michigan. He worked as a tennis coach at both Lansing Catholic High School and Michigan State University. Although Pearson has relocated to Florida since 2011, the police here in Michigan are determined to ensure that he face charges…
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Victory for the Family Defense Center in Three Civil Rights Cases
The Family Defense Center is a non-profit organization that focuses on advocating for justice for families whose children have been removed by overzealous child welfare systems. According to their website, a great many parents around the U.S. “lose custody of their children to state foster care systems primarily because they are poor or because they…
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Rescued Baby Forgotten By Dad in Hot Car
A young father may be faced with charges for having forgotten his baby daughter in the car on a hot day in Jackson, Michigan. The incident took place at about 4 pm on August 9th, which is about 1 hour after the hottest time of day according to the farmer’s almanac. The father, a 21-year-old,…
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Pokemon Go Results in CPS Intervention
Unless you have been camping in the Upper Peninsula without cell service for over a month now, you have probably heard about the Pokemon Go craze that has taken the world by storm. There have been news reports of people walking off cliffs, strolling in front of moving cars, and breaking into private property in…
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Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare – Helping Hand, or Racial Bias? 2
Having looked at the concern that several people have expressed regarding the way in which predictive analytics may be violating civil rights when used improperly in the criminal justice system, we’re now moving on to talk about how predictive analytics would affect the fairness of child welfare. In July of 2015, the County of Los…
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