Family Rights and Child Abuse News

A woman's story of heartache and healing

by Bridget Murphy

Vickie Green was on her hands and knees in the road. Blood streamed down her arms, like a faucet flowing red. The smoky exhaust of gunfire blended with the smell of seared flesh. The 41-year-old Jacksonville woman couldn't speak.

Had she seen herself, she would have known why. Vickie's tongue was dangling free, with no bottom jaw to hold it in. She had a final thought as she dragged herself up, tracking blood down the sidewalk as she staggered for help. Please don't let me die. Then everything went black.

Jacksonville News

August 2, 2009

Aanestad seeks major health-care reform for state

by Larry Mitchell

SACRAMENTO -- State Sen. Sam Aanestad has put together a bill he says would make major reforms in California's health-care system/

Aanestad intends to address four health-care issues: affordability, access, choice and patient safety. The measure, Senate Bill 92, is to be heard first in the Senate Health Committee, said Linda Halderman, a senior policy adviser to the senator.

Chico Enterprise Record

February 7, 2009

AB 172 - Universal preschool

by Assembly Member Chan

Summary: to establish and provide a voluntary preschool-for-all system.programs will meet research-based standards for social, emotional, cognitive, linguistic, and physical development, and are linked to public school system standards.

Status: Referred to Commission on Education - waiting on passage of the Preschool for All Act for funding.

leginfo.ca.gov

August 12, 2005

Abandoned Baby Rescued From Sewage Pipe Doing Better, Mother Found

by Steven Ertelt

The abandoned baby who was rescued this past weekend from a sewage pipe in China is being nursed back to health in a local hospital. Meanwhile, the baby's mother has been found and has reportedly been reunited with the infant.

Firefighters in an eastern Chinese province rescued a an apparently-abandoned newborn infant from a sewage pipe after neighbors reported hearing crying. Officials in China's Zhejiang Province rescued the infant on Saturday afternoon. Reports from Chinese media indicated the baby was found in the toilet sewage pipe in a residential building in the city of Jinhua after residents on the fourth floor called the fire department with reports of a baby crying.

lifenews.com

May 28, 2013

Abducted homeschooler's case finally advances

by Bob Unruh

It's been months since family advocates pleaded with the European Court of Human Rights to look into the case of a Swedish child taken by police and isolated with government-sponsored foster parents because he was being homeschooled.

The case developed in mid-2009 when social services and police forcibly took custody of Domenic, then 7, because they worried he was homeschooled. The local courts later denied the parents the legal representation they sought, demanding instead they be represented by a government-approved attorney. The courts ultimately ruled the state must keep custody of Domenic.

wnd.com

April 17, 2011