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A study of 700 children who had been in foster care for 1 year found that more than one-quarter of the children had some kind of recurring physical or mental health problem. (U.S. DHHS 2003) Minnesota CPS News Archive
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Austin Mother Facing Parental Rights Termination
by Gwen Siewert
AUSTIN, MN--An Austin mother is under the watchful eye of the courts, and there's no final decision on whether she'll get to see her newborn son or 18-month old daughter.
Kim Heang Sean, 21, hasn't had custody of her 18-month-old daughter since earlier this year, when the baby received "suspicious injuries" according to Mower County Human Services. Those injuries include multiple fractures, a broken leg, and damage to the girl's liver, spleen, and pancreas. Sean also gave birth to a baby boy last week. That infant is in a foster home.
kimt.com
October 15, 2011
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Minnesota woman charged with hitting five-year old boy in La Crosse
Western Wisconsin News -- A woman from Austin Minnesota is charged in La Crosse with hitting a five-year-old boy in the face, after his dad spilled a drink on her.
Police said it happened 10 days ago during Oktoberfest in La Crosse. 32-year-old Angela Tuchek is charged with physical child abuse and disorderly conduct. Authorities said the man tried to apologize for spilling alcohol on Tuchek - but she angry, tore a hat off the man's head, and struck his child in the face.
piercecountyherald.com
October 15, 2011
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Report shows fewer foster needs
by Carrie McDermott
The 153-page report shows the state placed 11,239 foster children in out-of-home care last year, a 4 percent decline from 2010.
The reduction shows Minnesota is having success in using family assessments, a strengths-based and family-focused method of working with families in the child protection system where no determination of maltreatment is made. The assessments keep children out of the system and with their parents. Family assessments have increased in the last nine years, from 3,191 in 2001 to 5,309 in 2010.
wahpetondailynews.com
September 21, 2011
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Missing Hastings Boy Found Safe; Mother in Custody
by Amanda Theisen
A Hastings boy missing since early June has been found safe in South Dakota. His mother, who was found with him, was taken into custody.
Timber Dimm, 5, and his mother, Wendi Bartell Dimm were found at a women's shelter in rural South Dakota. Officers from the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigations and the Perkins County Sheriff's Office arrested Wendi Bartell Dimm and turned Timber Dimm over to Child Protective Services.
kaaltv.com
August 3, 2011
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Deleting key sex offender facts won't keep us safer
by Gail Rosenblum
Few issues chill our collective consciousness more than talk of releasing sexual offenders. Also chilling is the tendency to ignore effective strategies for getting sexual offenders to stop.
But as Star Tribune investigative reporter Paul McEnroe revealed earlier this month, former Commissioner Cal Ludeman of the Department of Human Services (DHS) took out complete paragraphs in a report to the Legislature, including a recommendation to strengthen community-based programs. Why? Because the report was "promising too much."
startribune.com
February 19, 2011
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Duluth project collects loads of luggage for foster care kids on the move
by Sam Cook
These days, working at Lutheran Social Service comes with a lot of baggage. Duffel bags. Hard-sided suitcases. Soft-sided suitcases. Backpacks. Old but dependable bags. New-with-the-tags-on bags.
The mother lode of luggage is the result of a project conducted by the Oh No Eighteen Program based in Duluth and Virginia. The program teaches independent living skills to foster children ages 16 to 20 who are leaving foster care families or beginning life on their own. Most foster kids have never owned luggage, Patnaude said.
Duluth News Tribune
June 2, 2010
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Mom who allegedly watched son's beating lost baby under suspicious circumstances
by David Hanners
The mother accused of looking on as her boyfriend tied up and then lashed her 6-year-old son had a child who died under mysterious circumstances 11 years ago, according to Hennepin County records.
Jacquelyn Wander Williams' 8-month-old first child had nine bone fractures, four internal injuries and 11 bruises and welts on his body when he died in Chicago, according to Hennepin County's petition to terminate her parental rights to her two sons.
Twin Cities Pioneer Press
May 29, 2010
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Missing Minnesota girl found in Utah
WEST VALLEY CITY -- A missing 3-year-old girl from Minnesota was found in Utah after family reported her dad had taken her on Thursday.
Delpaso was arrested and booked into Salt Lake County Jail under a warrant out of Minnesota. The girl, Eva Anne, was refered to Child Protective Services. South St. Paul police are making arrangements to bring her home to her family, said West Valley City Police Lt. Dalan Taylor.
Deseret News
April 11, 2010
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Foster care linked to improved growth
U.S. researchers found gains in physical growth and intelligence in orphanage children after they were placed in foster care.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, led by Dr. Dana Johnson, found children assigned to foster care showed rapid increases in height and weight gain, and by 12 months all were in the normal range.
UPI
April 7, 2010
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DCFS a Lifetime of unspeakable hardship
by DCFS My Nightmare
Since he is no longer with us I am here the only remaining member of my family to speak of the DCFS horror. I am here simply to tell our story.
Sean looked at me with sad tear filled eyes, and said. "Robin where are we going". I told Sean. "Sean I don't know." The car drove across dark roads. I was sitting in the front seat and cound not recognize any road we were on. Sean remained in the back seat silent and crying.
My Kidjacked
January 19, 2010
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Superior man arrested for trespassing on his own land
Jeremy Engelking will appear in Douglas County court this afternoon to face a trespassing charge. But here's the kicker: The Superior man allegedly trespassed on his own property.
Engelking, 27, aimed to hunt deer Wednesday morning when he noticed a pipeline crew on his land. He hopped on his ATV and told workers they had no right to be on his property because he had received no compensation from Enbridge Energy Partners L.P. for an easement.
Duluth News Tribune
December 4, 2009
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How many second chances should bad parents get?
by Frederick Melo
For nearly six years, Christina Wittrock and Ronald D. Thomas' eldest daughter lived in and out of foster care. The times she returned to live with her biological parents were marked by emergency visits from police and Dakota County Social Services.
At the urging of prosecutors and county social workers, a Dakota County district judge ruled in February that Wittrock and Thomas were no longer the girls' parents, and their parental rights were officially and permanently terminated. A court appeal was denied last month, and the girls are now eligible for adoption.
Twin Cities Pioneer Press
November 28, 2009
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Women Cents focuses on foster care Thursday
Women Cents will present educational information on Thursday about foster care in the community and the gap that exists between the increasing need and available homes.
The event will be 7 to 9 p.m. in Red Wing at the Indigo Room, 325 Main St. Admission is free but donations are encouraged. Attendees are also encouraged to bring donations of new socks or underwear for the immediate needs of foster children newborn to age 18.
The Republican Eagle
November 11, 2009
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14 police calls to foster home led up to near-death
by Anthony Lonetree
Fourteen times in five years, police have been called to a St. Paul foster home where an 18-month-old girl nearly drowned this week after being left unattended in a bathtub.
Once last year, the caller was the foster-care provider herself, seemingly frantic about her husband leaving the house after an argument and warning she was "emotionally unable to care for the children" when alone, police said.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Judge: Teen must continue chemotherapy
by Serra Muscatello
An hearing for the welfare of 13-year-old Daniel Hauser held Tuesday in Brown County District Court concluded that the Sleepy Eye teenager is still in need of child protective services and that his chemotherapy treatment for his Hodgkin's lymphoma will pr
Hauser's next round of chemotherapy will be given this morning at Children's Hospital. Rodenberg said the Hausers, who live on a dairy farm in rural Sleepy Eye, are to continue on the course they have been taking for his treatment. He also said that the Hausers can continue to consult with any expert(s) they would like to about their son's treatment.
The Journal
June 24, 2009
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Minn. lawmaker vows not to complete Census
by Stephen Dinan
Outspoken Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she's so worried that information from next year's national census will be abused that she will refuse to fill out anything more than the number of people in her household.
"I know for my family the only question we will be answering is how many people are in our home," she said. "We won't be answering any information beyond that, because the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that."
The Washington Times
June 20, 2009
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Firearms Freedom Act Introduced in Minnesota
On May 7th, State Representative Tom Emmer [R-Delano] introduced the "Firearms Freedom Act," legislation that will protect firearm owners and manufacturers in Minnesota from federal government restrictions on the lawful exercise of Second Amendment rights
The bill would exempt any personal firearm, firearm accessory or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in Minnesota and that remains within the boundaries of the state from federal law or regulation; including registration. "The federal government shouldn't be keeping track of citizens that are lawfully exercising their Second Amendment rights," said Rep. Emmer.
Tenth Amendment Center
May 15, 2009
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Chemo views starkly differ
by Dan Linehan
Three doctors forecast a bleak future for 13-year-old Daniel Hauser if he doesn't receive chemotherapy, but Dr. Vilmarie Rodriguez of the Mayo Clinic framed the issue most starkly.
Brown County is asking Judge John Rodenberg to issue an order forcing the chemotherapy. The county believes allowing Daniel to refuse chemotherapy amounts to child neglect. Furthermore, Colleen Hauser said she won't comply with a court order requiring chemotherapy, and Daniel is likely to physically resist the treatment. "He said he would bite the doctor's arm off," she said.
The Mankato Free Press
May 13, 2009
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Decision on Brown County boy's chemo now rests with judge
by Jeremy Olson
A judge is expected to rule Friday whether a 13-year-old can refuse chemotherapy treatments that doctors believe he needs to stay alive.
Attorneys for Daniel and his parents - Anthony and Colleen Hauser, of Sleepy Eye, Minn. - argued that the teen should be able to choose alternatives to toxic chemotherapy for the treatment of his cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma. Daniel's attorney, Philip Elbert, de-emphasized one of the points in the case that has drawn national public attention: Daniel's refusal of chemotherapy on the grounds that it violates his family's spiritual beliefs.
Pioneer Press
May 12, 2009
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Judge: Child protection case headed to trial
by Kurt Nesbitt
A judge decided Friday morning that the issues being raised by attorneys in a child protection case, stemming from a family's decision not to put their 13 year-old son through a second round of chemotherapy, are issues for trial.
Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg decided the trial of the child protection case involving Daniel Hauser, 13, of Sleepy Eye, will begin next Friday morning. The case comes out of a petition filed in early April by Brown County Family Services, alleging Hauser's parents were medically neglecting him because he was not going to chemotherapy but receiving alternative treatments for his nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
New Ulm Journal
May 2, 2009
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National DNA database gets kickstart from feds
by Bob Unruh
With virtually no fanfare, and equally quiet opposition, President Bush has signed into law a plan that orders the government to take no more than six months to set up a national contingency plan to screen newborns' DNA.
Further, the new law requires that the results of that DNA program, including "information ... research, and data on newborn screening" shall be assembled by a "central clearinghouse" and be made available on the Internet.
World Net Daily
May 1, 2008
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