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Four brothers are now able to grow up together after two neighbors made the decision to adopt the boys to avoid splitting them apart.

Nebraska native Brandon Weathers was sentenced to serve between 100 and 160 years in prison for raping his foster child and claiming she impregnated herself with a syringe.

A lawyer for the 16-year-old student at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina who was seen in a viral video being flipped over in her desk by a school resource officer, says the girl suffered injuries from the attack and lives in foster care.

For thirty-one years Mary Beth Bonaventura was the well respected head of the Juvenile Court in Lake County, Indiana’s second largest county.  Her record of fairness and accomplishment won her kudos and plaudits from all sides of the political spectrum. Gov. Mike Pence appointed Judge Bonaventura to head the state’s troubled Department of Child Services […]

Audio Included in Post. Audio ©2010 WTLC/Radio One. Numerous problems with Indiana’s often criticized Depart of Child Services was highlighted on Afternoons with Amos. Richard Wexler, Executive Director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform discussed Indiana’s poor child welfare record from a national perspective. While Dawn Robertson and Doug McIntosh of the local […]