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Good morning. I have decided to retire Legally Kidnapped.  After over 12 years of bring you the latest headlines regarding CPS fraud, failures and fuck-ups, I have decided it's time for me to move on to bigger and better things.  I still have no love for CPS so I will still be around in some capacity.  I just haven't figured it out yet.   LK has simply become a burden and a dead horse that I can no longer do anything with.  My life circumstances have changed.  There are also technical issues with the blog that I can no longer overcome.  For example, thousands of dead links to articles tha ..read more

A group of Illinois parents has been in the news recently for taking advantage of a legal loophole in order to get their kids college financial aid: The parents are giving up custody of their kids in order to game the system. As a mom who’s currently engaged in a difficult custody battle of my own, these parents are rubbing salt in my wounds. Not only are they taking for granted the very thing that so many of us parents fight long and hard for — custody of our children — but they are relinquishing it in order to get financial breaks they don’t deserve. Similar to the college admissions scanda ..read more

A former Corpus Christi police officer accused of posing as a Child Protective Services worker will go to trial in September after a judge rejected her offer to plead guilty. Norma DeLeon resigned from the Corpus Christi Police Department in March, and is accused of pretending to be a CPS worker during a welfare check. More >> What's next for the former Corpus Christi officer accused of impersonating a CPS worker? Judge rejects plea deal for former CCPD officer accused of impersonating CPS worker ..read more

On Thursday, a Georgia jury convicted a 30-year-old woman and her 29-year-old husband of murdering their 2-year-old foster daughter in 2015, according to multiple reports. Jennifer and Joseph Rosenbaum were both facing 49 counts stemming from the death of Laila Daniel. More >> Foster Parents Who Beat 2-Year-Old to Death Cry as They Are Found Guilty of Murder ..read more

The Department of Children and Families has declined to pursue a case after a witness called police about what was viewed as excessive force used on a child at a restaurant in The Villages. The witness called law enforcement on the evening of July 27 after she saw a man remove his three-year-old daughter from Chili’s restaurant on Avenida Central, according to an incident report from the Lady Lake Police Department. The father later admitted to police he had spanked the child in the parking. The witness claimed the father had spanked the child so hard she was finding it hard to catch her brea ..read more

As of Thursday, no family in the Northeastern Pennsylvania school district that attracted national attention for its efforts to collect student lunch debt. More >> School-lunch debt cleared; N.E. Pa. superintendent ‘appalled and upset’ by district’s foster-care threats to parents ..read more

A Franklin County foster grandparent is in prison for sexually abusing five children. James Horton pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of child sex abuse. Investigators say Horton abused five kindergarten children in the foster grandparent program. As part of the plea deal, Horton was sentenced to seven years in prison. More >> Foster grandparent pleads guilty to child sex abuse ..read more

A successful foster care provider in Saline County is fighting for kids he serves. For 19 years, Second Chance Youth Ranch has housed foster children and supported foster families. “We provide the support, the knowledge, the wisdom,” said Perry Black, founder of the non-profit organization. “We take off a lot of those responsibilities of the families. We help them with budgeting, planning, safety factors, transportation. We provide the house and the utilities.” More >> Foster care providers fear loss of funding due to Family First Act ..read more

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has acknowledged it didn't track how many children were forced to sleep in its offices until recently. The agency reports 16 children were forced to sleep in DCFS offices between May 6 and June 28 of this year. It says it didn't track those numbers before May 6. More >> Illinois DCFS: Agency didn't track kids sleeping in offices ..read more