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Help ProPublica and NBC News Investigate Termination of Parental Rights in the Child Welfare System

August 11, 2022

Journalists at ProPublica and NBC News would like to connect with people whose parental rights have been terminated in the past decade. We have received an outpouring of responses, and at this time, we are only looking for people with cases in Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia. We want to understand how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Alaska, arizona, Arkansas, child custody, media, michigan, minnesota, new mexico, news, oklahoma, parental rights, protective parent, texas, Utah, Vermont

A Mother Needed Welfare. Instead, the State Used Welfare Funds to Take Her Son.

January 5, 2022

Shame on Arizona Child Welfare/CPS. Excellent reporting from ProPublica about corruption in the system targeting low-income parents and needlessly harming children. Arizona spends a majority of its welfare budget on the Department of Child Safety. The agency then investigates many poor parents, sometimes removing their children for reasons stemming from their poverty. Read more here. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: arizona, child custody, child protective services, corruption, cps, welfare

Family Grieves Loss of Phoenix Mother and Her Baby Killed by Husband

October 9, 2021

Friday evening, family members of 34-year-old Lanae Mouton, and 11-month-old Ava Mouton gathered together to remember their loved ones who were killed on Monday. Lanae's ex-husband, Louis Mouton III, is facing two first-degree murder charges in connection to the shooting deaths. Read more here. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: arizona, california, child homicide, divorce, gun violence

Arizona Judge Brad Astrowsky Sent Kids of MLB Vet to Controversial “Reunification” Camp

July 9, 2021

Judge Bradley Howard Astrowsky, a family court judge in Phoenix, sent former Major League Baseball player David Segui's two sons from Arizona to California without Segui’s permission to attend the Family Bridges camp at their mother’s request.  This comes after court filings in which Segui stated he tried to protect the boys from an abusive mother and her boyfriend. Earlier this year, a video … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: alienation, arizona, celebrity, custody, family bridges, judicial accountability, kansas, reunification camp

Mother in Midst of Divorce Arrested After Murder of Her 2 Young Children in Tempe, AZ

May 16, 2021

Rest in peace, 9-yr-old Mia Inoue and 7-yr-old Kai Inoue, who were tragically murdered by their divorcing mother in their apartment in Tempe, Arizona after officers had been to the same apartment just after midnight for a domestic fight between the mother and father. Their mother reports hearing voices that told her to kill her children. Read more here. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: arizona, divorce, homicide

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