Newspaper: U.S. Knew About Abandoned Kids
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U.S. State Department officials learned that seven American children had been abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage but waited more than a week to check on the youths, who were suffering from malnutrition, malaria and typhoid, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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HOUSTON Aug. 19, 2004  Seven Texas children found abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage have leveled new accusations against the adoptive mother who left them there, claiming that she struck them with switches and a cane and had repeatedly threatened to ...
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Days before a 4-year-old girl died from a blow to the head in a filthy motel room shared with five siblings and her parents, the state child welfare agency was told about her living conditions but declined to investigate, according to documents released Wednesday.
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Children displaced, often orphaned, by tsunami, earthquakes and other disasters made last year a particularly sordid one for their exploitation as cheap labor or sexual victims, the government said Wednesday.
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Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and "disappeared."
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By Jack Kresnak, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 27--The state launched a new Web site Wednesday morning that offers advice and opportunities to foster children who are "aging out" of Michigan's child welfare system.
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Newly released documents reveal snapshots of trouble well before the high school massacre
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NEW YORK  - Abused and neglected children  who are removed from their homes or otherwise become involved  in the child welfare system have a high rate of emotional and  behavioral problems. Yet, many of these children do not receive  needed mental health services, new study findings show.
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Lewd photographs of children were disappearing from adult bookstores. Child porn magazines in plain brown envelopes were no longer reaching customers through the mail. It was the early 1990s, and experts believed that federal law enforcement efforts were ending child pornography.
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Important details in little-seen government reports.
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By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 4--Here are some quickly warmed-up news leftovers from last week, culled from reports by our staff and wire services.
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People are being asked to report their concerns about children they think are at risk.
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In Latin America, the memory of the "disappeared" never went away. In the United States, they were hardly ever known.
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WASHINGTON - Federal law enforcement authorities notified school districts in six states last month that a computer disc found in Iraq contained photos, floor plans and other information about their schools, two U.S. officials said Thursday...
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Remains believed to be those of a 16-year-old girl who disappeared in 1999 after leaving a child welfare office were found Friday in a back yard, sheriff's officials said.
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U.S. marshals serving a routine eviction notice in Southeast Washington yesterday were met at the door by a calm woman who offered no clue about what would be found inside the house: the decomposing bodies of four girls, believed to be her children.
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The youngest victims of the Asian tsunami may be homeless, traumatized and possibly orphaned, but they are not yet candidates for adoption in the United States, the State Department said on Wednesday.