Colorado CPS News Archive

Court allows use of fake Social Security Number

by Bob Unruh

The Colorado Supreme Court has reversed the conviction of a man who admitted using someone else's Social Security number to obtain a loan, concluding that the defendant wasn't really trying to assume a false identity.

In the Colorado case, the court's slim majority concluded that criminal impersonation is "when one assumes a false identity or a false capacity with the intent to unlawfully gain a benefit."

World Net Daily

October 28, 2010

Ritter creates new office to watchdog child welfare

by Joseph Boven

Surrounded by children on the steps of the Denver Child Advocacy Center, Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law a bill that creates a child welfare watchdog for the state.

Senate Bill 171, sponsored by Sen. Linda Newell, D-Denver, created a youth ombudsman to oversee the state's embattled child protection system in which 35 children have died in the past few years.

The Colorado Independent

May 17, 2010

HB10-1059: Gagliardi Bill Helping Foster Kids Get Driver's Licenses

Representative Sara Gagliardi's (D-Arvada) bill to help foster kids get a driver's license easier, successfully passed a final reading in the House today 63-0, with 2 excused.

Currently, Colorado teens in the foster care system face barriers in getting their licenses because they cannot provide the signature of a legal guardian. House Bill 1059 allows kids in the foster care system to easily register for driver's education and apply for their learner's permits. The measure would allow foster kids to sign for themselves when registering for driver's education.

State Bill Colorado

February 8, 2010

Republicans ask Ritter to order probe of Platte Valley Youth Services Center

by Kelly Ann Tracer

DENVER -- Although state officials have investigated allegations of child abuse and harassment at a Greeley youth detention center in recent years, area lawmakers are not satisfied.

A group of Republican lawmakers asked Gov. Bill Ritter in a letter Monday to order another investigation of the Platte Valley Youth Services Center. The youth detention center, 2200 O St., houses youth who are serving a sentence or awaiting trial. Previous investigations have found no pattern of abuse at the center.

Greeley Tribune

January 26, 2010

JLo's New Year's Eve outfit causes buzz; Group fired up about smoking scenes in 'Avatar'

Lindsay Lohan rang in the new year shopping and jet skiing in St. Bart's.

Bob and Max Sheen will stay with mom Brooke Mueller for the next month in Aspen, as approved by child protective services.

USA Today

January 4, 2010

Family mourns as fallen soldier comes home

by George H. Newman

Friends and family are remembering the life and mourning the death of Army Spec. Eric Lembke, who died while on duty in Afghanistan Oct. 23.

As a child Lembke was in foster care, his wife said. He was adopted by Dorothy Lembke, who cared for foster children, when he was 12, she said. While he was in school, Lembke took a job at the Orange Blossom Tea Room on Evers Street.

Plant City Courier & Tribune

November 4, 2009

Falcon's Aftermath: The Danger Was on the Ground

by Jim Watkins

In an incredibly brief amount of time, the story of the so-called Balloon Boy morphed from drama to farce. I'm not saying that just because it turned out the little boy, was never even on that runaway weather balloon the world was watching for two hours T

What authorities in Colorado are saying now is that he accidentally let the balloon go, was worried he'd get punished, and hid in the house while the whole misunderstanding was unfolding on national TV. I would call in child protective services to look into the greedy, selfish, publicity-grasping response by the mother and dad to the whole thing, a response that clearly borders on being abusive.

The Huffington Post

October 17, 2009

Caseworker: Thompson threatened kids in foster care

by Carlos Illescas

CENTENNIAL -- Aaron Thompson of Aurora is on trial in Arapahoe County District Court in the death of his daughter Aarone, who was reported missing in 2005.

Even after their children were taken away from them, Thompson and Lowe tried to wield power over them. Jacqueline Ruybal, a case agent for the Arapahoe County Department of Human Services, testified that both Lowe and Thompson got into arguments with their children during visitations after the kids were taken away from them.

The Denver Post

September 2, 2009

Voice of past opens Thompson trial

by John Ingold

The long-awaited trial of Aaron Thompson on fatal child-abuse charges opened Friday with attention focused on a central figure speaking from beyond the grave.

That figure, though, was not Aarone Thompson, Thompson's young daughter whom he reported missing more than three years ago. Instead, it was Shelley Lowe, Thompson's live-in girlfriend when he reported Aarone missing. Lowe died about six months into the police investigation, but her voice echoed inside an Arapahoe County District courtroom Friday in a secretly recorded, profanity-laced tirade in which she told a friend that Aarone's death wasn't worth losing custody of her other kids.

The Denver Post

August 8, 2009

Child Protective Services & the Business of 'Legalized Kidnapping'

by Adeeba Folami

The suffering endured by Africans who were kidnapped from their native land and brought to America as slaves is sometimes referred to as the Black holocaust, which some say ended years ago but.

That is not the case according to parents who have had their children taken from them by the Denver Department of Human Service (DDHS) or the Adams County Social Service Department (ACSSD). Jo Nash-Conner's son Quentin, 10, currently resides at Mount St. Vincents Children's Home (MSVCH), a facility which proclaims to provide programs and services to "help children with a wide range of emotional and behavioral problems."

OpEdNews

May 1, 2009

Octuplets Mom Battles Critics!

by Warner Bros. Online

With 14 children, no job and $50K in student loans, Nadya Suleman has sparked public outrage over her decision to take government aid for her family.

Now, Nadya is biting back! "I am not living off taxpayer's money," Suleman said on NBC's "Dateline." "If I am, it's Food Stamps and it's a temporary resource." She adds, "It's not welfare."

Extra

February 11, 2009

Octuplet Mom Caught Lying!

by Warner Bros. Online

Prolifically reproductive Nadya Suleman claimed in an interview that taxpayers aren't paying for the care of her children, but new reports today say the mother of fourteen is lying!

According to the L.A. Times, Suleman is receiving both $490 in food stamps per month and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for her fourteen tots. The fact that Nadya is receiving help from taxpayers isn't the only controversy...

Extra

February 10, 2009