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"I hope my baby is dead"
"I hope my baby is dead." These are the chilling words from a mother who is now charged with repeatedly stabbing her 8-month-old child during a supervised visit with a social service's worker. The account comes from police charging documents filed in...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Injuries and Wounds, Prosecution, Abusive Behavior
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Baltimore Co. launches advocate program to stem rise in foster kids
In Dundalk, the need for foster homes far outstrips the abilities of neighborhood families who can open their doors to children in crisis.
Baltimore County's Department of Social Services has launched an effort to recruit foster parents in its eastern...Tags: Dundalk, Voting, Parkville, Baltimore County
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State uses downtown office to house troubled teens
Sun StaffFor the past five months, the Baltimore Department of Social Services has been regularly housing children overnight at a downtown office building - allowing them to sleep upright in hard plastic chairs or on thin mattresses on the floor. The practice...Tags: Mental Illness, Minority Groups, Family, Television, Lynn Anderson
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Injury to child in foster care described as tragic accident
Sun StaffMartina Ford holds a photograph showing her son, a chubby child with a misshapen head, lying in a hospital bed in Spider-Man pajamas. In another photo, she awkwardly cradles the boy, whose body is attached to tentacles of tubing. "That's my pumpkin,"...Tags: Building Material, Hospitals and Clinics, Spider-Man (fictional character), Randallstown, Lynn Anderson
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Answers elusive in foster care crisis
Sun StaffThe Baltimore City Department of Social Services office at 301 N. Gay St. was never intended to house children - but lots of them have spent nights there. More than 100 foster children have slept in the office since January, when social workers began...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Minority Groups, Family, Lynn Anderson, Emergency Planning
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Mother sues city over tot's brain damage
Sun StaffA woman who lost custody of her children while in a city witness protection program filed a $34 million lawsuit against the Baltimore Department of Social Services yesterday, alleging that her toddler son suffered a fractured skull when he was slammed...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Abusive Behavior, Lynn Anderson, Emergency Planning, Murder
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Children still being housed illegally in office building
Sun StaffCity Department of Social Services officials are continuing to illegally house foster children at a downtown office building, the director of the state-run agency confirmed yesterday. Samuel Chambers Jr. said that two teenage girls, one of whom ran...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Anne Arundel County, Family, Lynn Anderson, Legal Services
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County says it didn't find evidence that Dundalk boy's life was in danger
Sun StaffBaltimore County social workers visited the home of Roy Lechner Jr. more than 150 times in the two years before he died of suspected abuse - but didn't feel they had conclusive evidence that the Dundalk boy was in danger. "This is not a case of a child...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Safety at Work, Emergency Planning, Employees, Medical Services
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Report argues DSS puts city children at risk
Sun StaffNoting last year's torture death of Ciara Jobes, a report filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore asserts that the city's Department of Social Services is "sitting on a time bomb" and is putting hundreds of supervised children at risk because of a lax...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Abusive Behavior, Health and Safety at Work, Murder, Employees
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Guardian indicted in death of teen
Sun StaffA Baltimore City grand jury indicted yesterday on first-degree murder charges the legal guardian of a teen-age girl who prosecutors said died from abuse. Satrina Roberts, 31, was charged with murder and child abuse in the death of Ciara Jobes, 15. Ciara'...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Abusive Behavior, Juvenile Delinquency, Teaching and Learning, Society
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Mother pleads guilty, sentenced to 30 years for killing baby son
Sun StaffKeisha Carr pleaded guilty yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing her 2-month- old son, David -- one of several recent cases that has shined a spotlight on the failure by the city's...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Abusive Behavior, Society, Murder, Punishment
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Child welfare head tries to improve agency's image
Sun StaffWhen Christopher J. McCabe stood at the microphone of a recent nationally televised news conference, Maryland's highest child welfare official mentioned his boss' name, introduced his colleagues and spoke vaguely about his agency's work. The secretary of...Tags: Tragedy (genre), Hospitals and Clinics, Regional Authority, CNN (tv network), Howard County
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