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The family of a 16-year-old boy who was restrained at a shuttered western Michigan youth center and died two days later of cardiac arrest has settled a second wrongful death lawsuit in the case. The settlement between the family of Cornelius Fredricks and Lakeside Academy in Kalamazoo was approved Dec. 29 by Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge Alexander Lipsey.
Fredericks died after he was restrained for 10 minutes at the center on April 29, 2020. The academy subsequently lost its contract to care for youth in the state’s foster care and juvenile justice systems and had its license to…
The prosecution rested its case last week in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the New York socialite and alleged accomplice of billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. She's facing six charges for her alleged role in Epstein's trafficking of underage girls.
Advocates for survivors of child sex trafficking say the Maxwell case…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The American Bar Association’s policymaking body has voted in favor of a resolution supporting the U.S. Interior Department as it works to uncover the troubled legacy of federal boarding schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous youth into white society.
The resolution, adopted Monday by delegates at the bar association’s annual meeting, calls for the Biden administration and Congress to fully fund the initiative and provide subpoena power to the Interior Department as it gathers and reviews reams of records related to the schools.
This article from the Philadelphia Inquirer details the accounts of sexual abuse of children in several residential mental health care facilities in the United States operated by Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health. "At least 41 children as young as 12, and with IQs as low as 50, have been raped or sexually assaulted by Devereux staff members in the last 25 years, an Inquirer investigation has found."
In 2015, over 425,000 children were placed in foster care in the United States following reported incidents of abuse and neglect. Poorly delivered services by the strained child protection system, however, can cause considerable harm to children placed in care. Transforming the child welfare system will require evidenced-based changes in service delivery, including: improved and ongoing training to child welfare workers, enhanced preventive efforts, and the reallocation of resources.
Parents' drug abuse often lead children down a path of abuse, neglect, and abandonment.
A U.S. federal court has sentenced a former missionary from Oklahoma to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing children at a Kenyan orphanage. His arrest and conviction—one case among several recent instances of overseas abuse—highlights the need for more vetting procedures in international volunteering, experts say.
The Better Care Network's "Better Volunteering, Better Care" initiative is working to discourage international volunteering in residential care homes—a trend BCN director Florence Martin said would be unheard of in the United States. Beyond the …
While data indicates that the use of corporal punishment by schools has declined significantly in recent years, the practice is still in use for tens of thousands of public school students in the United States. Many activists and parent groups are demanding that the practice be outlawed in schools.
Nineteen U.S. states, mainly in the South, Southwest, and Midwest, still legally allow for corporal punishment, and teachers and school officials have wide discretion in how and when to apply such discipline. The basis for such legality is a …
In May 2011, Hana, a 13 year-old girl who had been adopted from Ethiopia three years previously, died in the care of her adoptive family in Washington state, USA. She showed signs of severe abuse and neglect. She had been kept outside for the day as a form of punishment and died of hypothermia compounded by malnutrition and gastritis. Hana was one of several adoptees who have died at the hands of their adoptive parents in the past two decades, “and part of a far larger group of children who become estranged from their adoptive families—frequently, as it turns out, large families with…
This Washington Post article highlights the findings from the National Academy of Science's first major report on child abuse and neglect that found that advances in brain research now show that child abuse and neglect damages not only in the way a developing child’s brain functions, but changes the actual structure of the brain itself, in such a way that makes clear thinking, controlling emotions and impulses and forming healthy social relationships more difficult.
This article features a link to a video of an experiment conducted by a professor of psychology at the…