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Feds Take Over Red Lake Nation Child Welfare After Eight Child Deaths and a ‘Pattern of Inaction’
October 18, 2026
A federal notice says Red Lake’s child welfare agency ignored abuse, kept felons on staff and stopped reporting to the FBI as up to eight children died since 2021.
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Killed at Six, Buried in the Backyard, Unnoticed for Four Years: The Failure That Let Kennedy Schroer Disappear
June 27, 2026
Six-year-old Kennedy Schroer, born Natalie Garcia, was tortured and killed by her adoptive mother in 2020 and buried in the backyard. No one knew for nearly four years. Inside the collapse of post-adoption oversight. (160 characters)
She Died in the State’s Care. Illinois Still Won’t Say What Happened to Mackenzi Felmlee.
June 27, 2026
Mackenzi Felmlee, 18, died in her Illinois foster home after four years in state care. One assigned caseworker had eight orders of protection against her — and DCFS hired her anyway.
Children Removed First. Due Process Later. NYC ACS Faces Federal Lawsuit Over Emergency Family Separations
June 3, 2026
A federal lawsuit alleges NYC ACS routinely removed children without prior court orders, bypassing due process and disproportionately impacting families of color.
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RESEARCH & DATAKids Taken ‘For Their Safety’ Face Higher Abuse Risk in Foster CareWhat the data actually shows about abuse inside the system.Read the research ›
POLICY & FUNDING$30 Billion a Year: Where Foster Care Money Actually GoesThe per-child cost breakdown and where taxpayer money ends up.Read the research ›
SYSTEMIC ISSUESMedical Kidnapping: When a Hospital Visit Ends With CPS Taking Your ChildThe pattern, the landmark cases, and how families protect themselves.Read the research ›
RESEARCH & DATA3 in 4 Foster Care Removals Are ‘Neglect,’ Not Abuse — and Poverty Is Driving ItFederal data shows how often being poor gets treated like being dangerous.Read the research ›
RESEARCH & DATAAre Kids in Foster Care Dying at Higher Rates? The Data No One Wants to ShowChild deaths in foster care vs. the general population, side by side.Read the research ›
SYSTEMIC CRISISWhen the System Loses Kids, Traffickers Find ThemAn estimated 60–70% of child trafficking victims came through child welfare.Read the research ›
ACCOUNTABILITYFalsified Records, Destroyed Evidence, Zero Accountability: CPS Workers ExposedCaseworkers in Colorado, Texas and Washington caught falsifying records.Read the research ›
SYSTEMIC CRISISDrug-Free Parents Are Failing State Drug Tests — and Losing Their KidsFrom Georgia’s lab scandals to a $1.3M DOJ settlement.Read the research ›
INSIDER ACCOUNTSFormer CPS Workers Speak Out: What They Saw Inside Will Shock YouInvestigators, caseworkers and whistleblowers on the incentives and bias inside.Read the research ›
FAMILY DESTRUCTIONHow CPS Turns Parents Against Each Other — and Who Gets HurtCoerced safety plans and divide-and-conquer tactics, explained.Read the research ›
JUSTICE DENIED‘Just Comply’: How Public Defenders Are Failing Parents in CPS CasesOverworked, underpaid, too often indifferent — and families pay the price.Read the research ›
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- Armed CPS Raid in Loudoun County: Family Claims Newborn Was Taken Without Charges or Due Process
- Federal Audit: Arkansas Botched 138 of 140 Child Abuse Investigations
- Riverside Foster Parent Who Fostered About 90 Children Charged With Sexual Abuse
- Georgia Foster Care Costs Up 159% — and Auditors Can’t Explain $34 Million
- Exposing the Dark Side of Foster Care: The Harrowing Case of Scott & Deanna Solie
- Third Circuit Revives NJ Family’s Claim Over CPS Worker’s Warrantless Home Entry
- Maine Mother Ordered to Take Drug Tests to Get Kids Back Says Collector Assaulted Her
- 20–30 Child Removals, Not One Warrant: The Monterey County Case That Cost $1.2 Million
- Texas CPS Took Grieving Parents’ Toddler Using an Autopsy Report That Didn’t Exist: Suit
- Federal Judge Orders Georgia to Stop Billing Parents for Kids No Longer in Foster Care
- Exposing Systemic Failures in Foster Care: The Tragic Death of Ma’Koons
- NPR: Children With Disabilities Are Dying in Foster Care the State Promised Would Help
- Sevier County, Utah CPS Under Fire After Children Removed Following Accidental House Fire
- Brooklyn Foster Agency Supervisor Charged With Faking Signatures on Adoption Papers
- Washington Pays $25M in Starvation Death of Adopted Teen Karreon Adams-Franks
- Ossoff’s Georgia DFCS Probe: When Foster Kids Go Missing, Traffickers Find Them
- The Dark Side of Adoption: What the Research, Records, and Money Trails Reveal
- Philadelphia Foster Mother Charged With Murder After Toddler Drowns in Harrogate Foster Home
- St. Louis County, Minnesota CPS Under Fire After Parent With TBI Says Court Muted Him During Critical Hearing
- Georgia’s Broken Drug Testing in Child Welfare: How False Positives Are Tearing Families Apart
- Killed at Six, Buried in the Backyard, Unnoticed for Four Years: The Failure That Let Kennedy Schroer Disappear
- Miami-Dade Family Court Accused of Enforcing Inflated Child Support Against Disabled Father
- Nova Collins (Spearfish, South Dakota): What Public Records Show About the Former CPS Worker Facing Felony Allegations
- Ellis County Texas CPS and Family Court Case Raises Due Process and Child Safety Concerns
- Former CPS Caseworker Speaks Out: Inside the Decisions, Incentives, and Failures Families Never See
- Medical Kidnapping in America: When Hospitals & CPS Tear Families Apart
- Noah McAdams: A Florida Case of Medical Kidnapping Over Parental Medical Rights
- Louisiana Foster Child, 6, Dies of Meth Intoxication; Foster Mother Charged
- Shameka Williams Allegedly Laughed While Teen Lay Dying—Now Charged with Murder
- Georgia Child Abuse Case: Adopted Boy Found Starved to 36 Pounds Raises Serious Questions About System Oversight
- Cherokee County DFCS Sent a Severely Autistic Young Man 800 Miles Away — After the Court Found “No Reasonable Efforts” Were Made
- Jones County, Mississippi Youth Court Under Fire After Judge Denies Kinship Placement Despite State Recommendations
- Riverside County Pays $4.2M; Foster Siblings Say Social Workers Hid Boy’s Abuse History
- Oklahoma County DHS Under Fire After Newborn Removed Hours After Birth Over Disputed Drug Test
- Father Says a Protection Order and Disputed Police Report Cut Him Off From His Kids
- Rebecca Crowe and the William Gapac Case: Why Was This Case Kept in Bryan County Despite a Documented Conflict Concern?
- San Diego County Foster Care Scandal: 75 Former Children Allege Sexual Abuse at Polinsky Children’s Center
- Supreme Court Rejects Foster Couple’s ICWA Challenge, Keeping Red Lake Twins With Family
- Washington County, Oklahoma DHS Case Raises Medical Kidnapping Concerns After Mother Sought Emergency Care for Infant
- Mississippi CPS Kept Kids in Hotels ‘Like Prisoners’; Harrison County Declares Emergency
- Massachusetts Parents Say a False Drug Test at Birth Cost Them Their Kids for 2 Years
- West Virginia Couple Sentenced to Decades in Prison for Abusing Adopted Children: A System Under Scrutiny
- Indiana DCS Worker Allegedly Lied About Visiting Families—A Stark Warning About Foster Care System Failures
- Brittany Shiver – Leon County, Florida: Former DCF Investigator Allegedly Falsified Records
- Clearfield County CPS Extortion Scandal: What Crystal R. Miller’s Case Reveals
- Drake Pardo: Texas Medical Kidnapping Exposed
- Georgia DFCS Admitted ‘No Immediate Danger,’ Then Took a Grieving Mother’s Kids Anyway
- Governor Hobbs Increases Foster Care Payments — But Who Benefits?
- “They Said They Were Helping—Then My Kids Were Gone”: Pepper Woodworth’s Todd County CPS Story
- Alabama DHR Worker Who Was Also a Foster Parent Held on $1M Bond in Child Sex Abuse Case
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