Category: For Your Information
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$410,000 Raised to Help Fight Child Abuse in Michigan
Sometimes preventing child abuse means getting involved in a difficult situation with a student at school. Or with your neighbors. Sometimes it means making a report to police, which can be difficult because you run the risk of having misunderstood what really happened. So now you’ve put a potentially innocent family right under the laser…
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CPS and Animal Control to Work Hand-in-Hand?
When the average person thinks about CPS, they don’t usually also think about dogs and cats and possibly gerbils. Nor does the average person associate Animal Control with children (unless they are a parent making jokes after a very difficult day!) Either way, these are not two agencies that are commonly linked in their work…
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Maternal Death Reporting Is Now Mandatory in Michigan?
For so long we have been focused on saving the lives of babies, that it seems we’ve allowed their most important life source to slip out of our fingers – their mothers. Maternal death rates are rising in Michigan, which is both sad and surprising, given that they are decreasing on a global scale. So…
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Hope Not Handcuffs: Help for Addicted Parents Before CPS Gets Involved
In late January of this year, a new program was launched in Macomb County that hopes to make a difference to those who are struggling with opiate addiction. Hope not Handcuffs allows a person battling addiction to walk into a police station and ask for help without fear of reprisal. In other words, you can…
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Two CPS Workers Charged For Death of Detroit Child
24-year-old Elaine Brown, and 47-year-old Kelly Williams are facing some very serious charges for the role the state believes they played in the abuse and death of a Detroit toddler. The two social workers are accused of failing to follow up on the case of 3-year-old Aaron Minor, after finding him inadequately cared for in…
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No Charges After 4-Year-Old is Mauled to Death by Dog
On October 23rd, tragedy struck at a home on W. Fish Lake Road in Sherman Township. A little girl was offering her newly adopted dog a treat. Suddenly the animal attacked her, completely unprovoked, and mauled her to death. Leaving her heartbroken family to wonder why, and the prosecutor’s office to determine if anyone was…
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Is It Constitutional For Caseworkers To Lie In Court?
One of the issues we have raised on a number of occasions here in our articles, is the unbridled freedom that CPS workers have, coupled with a startling lack of oversight, when dealing with parents and families. Which is why we would like to share this particular case with you, that deals with whether or…
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Toddler Found With Dead Man Was Alone For Days
Recently, a 2 ½ year old child was found inside a Kent County home along with the body of a dead man. Authorities are saying the toddler likely tended to herself for several days. Although this is the second time in under a month that law enforcement has found a very young child in a…