MSN News: Police: TV show reminded man that girl was in car

http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/police-tv-show-reminded-man-that-girl-was-in-car

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A child crying on the television show "Game of Thrones" jogged a foster parent's memory that he had left a 10-month-old girl inside a sweltering car while he and his partner smoked marijuana at their house, a police affidavit released Monday says.

Seth Jackson, 29, is charged with first-degree murder in the July 24 death in Wichita. No charges have been filed against his partner.
Police say the girl was inside the car with the windows up for more than two hours. It was around 90 degrees outside. An autopsy showed she died of hyperthermia due to heat exposure.
The affidavit says Jackson's partner told police that Jackson called that day to let him know he would be picking the 10-month-old up from the baby sitter after taking their 5-year-old adopted child to a doctor's appointment. Jackson told police that when he arrived home, he locked the car and went inside with his 5-year-old and the pizza.
Jackson's partner said he and Jackson watched one and a half episodes of "Games of Thrones" and smoked marijuana Jackson had picked up that day, according to the affidavit. The partner told police Jackson realized he had left the 10-month-old outside in the car when he heard a child crying on the TV show.
The men rushed outside, Jackson unlocked the vehicle and his partner removed the child.
The partner told investigators the girl was hot and stiff when he grabbed her from the car and carried her into the house. As he called 911, Jackson attempted CPR but could not get the child's mouth open, according to the affidavit filed by Wichita police detective Ryan Schomaker.
Officers who responded found Jackson still on the phone when they arrived, making calls and repeatedly stating, "I left her in the car, she's dead, she's dead," according to the affidavit.
Meanwhile, the girl was unresponsive and lying on her back on the couch. Firefighters moved the girl from the couch to the floor once they arrived and attempted to revive her.
Later in an interview at police headquarters, Jackson's partner told detectives he and Jackson had been foster parents to the 10-month-old girl since she was 2 weeks old. Police have not released the child's name and documents in the case only use her initials.
Although the girl died of hyperthermia, Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said the first-degree murder charge was warranted because the child died during the commission of an inherently dangerous felony, aggravated endangering of a child. The case is not charged as intentional murder.
In addition to the 10-month-old, who they were trying to adopt, Jackson and his partner had five other children in their care. They had three other foster children ages 3, 5 and 18, and two adopted children ages 5 and 7. The two younger foster children were visiting other relatives at the time the 10-month-old died.
Prosecutors and Jackson's attorneys agree the circumstances are entirely different than a widely publicized case in Georgia, where a father faces murder and child cruelty charges on suspicion of intentionally leaving a 22-month-old boy inside a hot car last month as he went to work.

Affidavit: Both Wichita foster parents smoking pot while baby in hot car

http://www.kansas.com/2014/08/04/3581618/affidavit-both-wichita-foster.html#emlnl=Afternoon_Headlines_Newsletter

By Tim Potter

The Wichita Eagle

 

Both foster parents of a 10-month-old girl who died after being left in a hot car were smoking marijuana while she remained in the vehicle outside, a Wichita police affidavit says.
The affidavit, filed in Sedgwick County District Court and released Monday, provides new details about what led up to the July 24 death, including that one of the foster parents realized that the baby remained in the car when he heard a baby crying on a television show they were watching.
They rushed outside, but her body was hot and already stiff, and she was unresponsive, the court document says.
Seth Jackson, 29, the parent who left the girl in the car according to police, has been charged with first-degree murder. The affidavit spells out the alleged facts upon which authorities are basing their prosecution of Jackson.
The affidavit, signed by homicide unit Detective Ryan Schomaker, gives this narrative: At about 6:41 p.m. July 24, officers were dispatched to an unknown call for police and arrived at 1525 S. Topeka and were let into the home by the other foster parent, identified in the affidavit by his initials. An officer saw Jackson on the telephone and the baby, identified as K.P.J., lying on her back on the couch and not breathing.
Wichita fire personnel arrived and moved the baby to the floor to use lifesaving techniques.
The other foster parent told the officer that he estimated that the baby had been left in the car about two hours. The other parent said he ran to the Dodge Charger, parked on the street, and found the baby in the back passenger seat and took her inside, where “they tried performing CPR but could not get her mouth open,” the affidavit says.
Another officer arrived and saw Jackson standing in the front yard. Jackson made about four phone calls and said, “I left her in the car, she’s dead, she’s dead.” Jackson told the officer that he had gotten home after getting the girl from the baby sitter in his silver Dodge Charger and picking up pizza, that when he arrived home, he locked the car and went inside with the pizza and a 5-year-old child, the affidavit says.
Jackson told the officer that after about two hours, he realized the baby had remained in the car, the document says. He and the other parent ran together to the car and carried the child inside.
Schomaker and Detective Robert Chisholm interviewed the other foster parent at police offices at City Hall and found out that he and Jackson had been foster parents to the baby since she was 2 weeks old. They also learned, according to the affidavit, that Jackson had taken a 5-year-old child to a doctor’s appointment scheduled for 2:30 p.m. that day. Jackson called the other parent at about 3:30 and told how the appointment went. Jackson told the other parent he was going to pick up the 10-month-old from the baby sitter and drive home, the affidavit says.
The other parent told the detectives that he had been working in the backyard and went inside, where he found Jackson. It was 4 to 4:15 p.m., and the other parent said he thought Jackson had just gotten home. They decided on leftover pizza for dinner and went into their room on the main floor and watched one and a half episodes of “Game of Thrones.”
The other parent told one of the detectives that “they smoked marijuana that Seth (Jackson) had picked up that day,” the affidavit says.
When watching the show, the other parent said, Jackson heard “a child crying on the television show and that is when Seth realized that K.P.J. was still inside the vehicle.” The other parent ran to the car as Jackson unlocked it from the front porch, reached in and unbuckled the baby from a rear car seat, the affidavit says.
The other parent said the girl “was hot to the touch and stiff when he grabbed her,” the document says. The 10-month-old was unresponsive. He called 911 while Jackson tried to do CPR.
A coroner’s official who did an autopsy on the girl listed the cause of death as “hyperthermia due to environmental heat exposure due to enclosure inside a vehicle outdoors,” the affidavit says.

Reach Tim Potter at 316-268-6684 or tpotter@wichitaeagle.com.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/08/04/3581618/affidavit-both-wichita-foster.html#emlnl=Afternoon_Headlines_Newsletter#storylink=cpy

 

DA: Foster father using marijuana when baby left in car

http://www.kansas.com/2014/08/01/3577493/da-foster-father-using-marijuana.html#emlnl=Afternoon_Headlines_Newsletter

Why doesn't the State do drug testing on foster placements??

Seth Jackson

By Tim Potter

The Wichita Eagle

The foster father charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 10-month-old girl who had been left in a hot car had been consuming marijuana earlier that day and went into the home to use more when he left her, District Attorney Marc Bennett said.
The disclosure came at a court hearing Friday afternoon in which Seth Jackson’s attorneys were seeking to modify his bond.
In giving some background for how prosecutors have approached the case, Bennett said that on the day of the child’s death, Jackson allegedly had been using marijuana in the morning and ran out.
Jackson had been transporting a 5-year-old and the 10-month-old. He allegedly went to a drug dealer’s house and bought more of the drug and went into the house to consume more marijuana, Bennett said.
Prosecutors believe Jackson was getting high during the 2 1/2 hours that the baby remained in the car, Bennett said.
Jackson, 29, was charged with first-degree murder Wednesday. The count alleges the girl’s death occurred within the commission of an inherently dangerous felony, according to the criminal complaint filed against him. The underlying crime alleged is aggravated endangerment of a child. The endangerment allegation means recklessly causing or permitting a child to be in a situation where his or her life is in danger, Bennett said Wednesday.
Also Friday, Judge Dave Dahl agreed to modify the conditions of Jackson’s $250,000 bond. The modification means basically that Jackson would have to pay a bondsman $5,000 instead of $25,000 to get out of jail.
Dahl also ruled that on or before Aug. 7, he would decide whether to release an affidavit that might provide more information about the allegations. The document, known as a probable cause affidavit, requires authorities to provide enough information justifying their case against a person. Neither the prosecutors nor the defense attorneys objected to the release of the full contents of the document.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2014/08/01/3577493/da-foster-father-using-marijuana.html#emlnl=Afternoon_Headlines_Newsletter#storylink=cpy

Reach Tim Potter at 316-268-6684 or tpotter@wichitaeagle.com.

Foster Child dies after being left in car in south Wichita

Foster Child dies after being left in car in south Wichita http://www.kansas.com/2014/07/24/3567161/child-dies-after-being-left-in.html One arrested after baby dies in hot car in S. Wichita http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/baby-dies-in-hot-car-in-south-wichita/27139842 Wichita Foster Dad of Baby Who Died in Hot Car 'Wants to Die' http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hot-cars-and-kids/wichita-foster-dad-baby-who-died-hot-car-wants-die-n164706 Police, state conducting own investigations into child’s death in hot car http://www.kansas.com/2014/07/25/3567640/child-who-died-was-in-car-during.html#storylink=cpy Ten-month-old girl dies after being left in a hot car in Wichita http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/07/25/ten-month-old-girl-dies-after-being-left-in-a-hot-car-in-wichita/

CJOnline, Child abuse reports, foster care placements rising in state, More children in state custody despite high standard for substantiating abuse claims,

http://cjonline.com/news/2014-07-26/child-abuse-reports-foster-care-placements-rising-state More children in state custody despite high standard for substantiating abuse claims, Posted: July 26, 2014 - 2:47pm By Andy Marso andy.marso@cjonline.com The number of children in state custody has risen to record levels in Kansas, correlating with a rising number of child abuse and neglect complaints. As of the beginning of June there were about 7,000 children in the custody of the Kansas Department for Children and Families, including 6,168 in out-of-home foster care placement. Bruce Linhos, executive director of the Kansas Children's Alliance, said it is a higher number than ever before and child advocates, social workers and government officials are struggling to pinpoint a cause. “There’s been a lot of discussion, and I don’t think anybody’s come up with any great answers about why the number is growing,” Linhos said. An in-depth report by the Kansas Health Institute in June included some advocates saying that state policies arestraining and stressing poor families, while a DCF spokeswoman attributed the increase to heightened awareness and reporting of child abuse and neglect. The state is investigating more abuse and neglect claims compared with five years ago and the percentage of those claims that results in a "substantiated" finding is ticking up. But the vast majority remain "unsubstantiated." In Fiscal Year 2009 the state investigated 26,543 child-in-need-of-care complaints and 94.8 percent were found "unsubstantiated." In FY 2013 the Department for Children and Families investigated 32,130 complaints and 93.5 percent were unsubstantiated. Through the first 11 months of FY 2014, the department had assigned 33,052 complaints for investigation. Of those, 29,946 had been declared unsubstantiated and 1,828 had been substantiated. The remaining 1,278 complaints are still open. Substantiated claims are passed to local county and district attorneys, who decide whether to file a child-in-need-of-care petition with the court. Only judges can decide whether custody of the child in question should be granted to DCF or another person. As part of a series of reports on child abuse, the Wichita Eagle in June outlined a court case in which a 14-year-old girl who weighed 66 pounds was removed from her home after nine reports of neglect and abuse, eight of which were determined unsubstantiated. A prosecutor in Sedgwick County, where reports of child abuse and neglect have risen by more than 25 percent in the past five years to over 12,000 a year, told the Eagle his office is sometimes shocked by the number of unsubstantiated complaints in a child's past by the time a case is referred. Lee McGowan, a spokesman for the Shawnee County District Attorney's Office, said that's familiar to local prosecutors. "Our office concurs that it is sometimes surprising at how many previous reports may have been made before a case ever reaches our office," McGowan said via email. McGowan said he also agreed with his counterparts in Sedgwick County that there is sometimes a difference in philosophy between prosecutors, whose "focus is always on safety of the child first and foremost" and social workers, whose approach "may well be to try to keep the child in the home." "That is not to say, however, that safety is not a priority for the social workers," McGowan said. Ron Nelson, a prominent family law attorney in Lenexa, said it is no surprise that more than 90 percent of abuse and neglect complaints are determined unsubstantiated. To substantiate a complaint, state law requires "clear and convincing evidence," which Nelson called a "very high standard." "It is a standard that requires more than a belief that something occurred or that the person who is alleged to have committed the abuse or neglect is the one who committed it," Nelson said. "It is more than that there is some indication that something occurred or that the person alleged to have committed it performed the act. It is less than 'beyond a reasonable doubt.'" Nelson also said that the list of those whose professions require them to report suspected abuse and neglect is long, and reports may be made "out of an abundance of caution." Theresa Freed, a spokeswoman for the Department of Children and Families, said a substantiated claim is not necessary to temporarily remove a child from a dangerous situation. "The rate of removal is much higher than the rate of substantiating," Freed said. The process of removal has been under increased scrutiny recently as well. Craig Gabel, the president of a Wichita-based conservative group called Kansans for Liberty, last year proposed cutting DCF's funding if the agency does not meet family reunification goals. "In my opinion, the worst family in the world is better for a child than the best foster home," Gabel said at the time. During the 2014 session a member of Gabel's group teamed up with other disaffected parents to lobby for changing the state law that instructs courts to act "in the best interests of the child" to one that instructs them to choose the "least detrimental alternative for the child." The measure, House Bill 2450, died in committee. Linhos said that in addition to promoting family reunification, Kansans should also be working toward greater adoption rates so children aren't aging out of the foster care system and trying to prevent abuse and neglect from occurring in the first place. He touted programs like Topeka's Safe Families for Children that help families manage crises before they become damaging to children. “Those kind of very front end, early interventions are the kind of things I think the system has really struggled to kind of be able to address," Linhos said. "In my mind, those are the kind of hopeful things where we really are able to get the people assistance prior to getting to the point of abuse or neglect.” Andy Marso can be reached at Capital: (785) 233-7470; Office: (785) 295-5619 or andy.marso@cjonline.com. Follow Andy on Twitter @andymarso.

The Stealing of American Children

Where Is Adam Herrman? $50,000 reward offered in Butler County disappearance of 11-year-old Adam Herrman

December 20

BY AMY RENEE LEIKER

The Wichita Eagle

EL DORADO — A $50,000 cash reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the disappearance of a Towanda boy in 1999, Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet announced Friday.

The reward is being posted by an anonymous donor who “would like to see some closure for the family” of Adam Joseph Herrman, Herzet said at a news conference in El Dorado.

Adam was 11 when he went missing, but authorities didn’t learn he had vanished until late 2008, when his older, adoptive sister shared concerns about him with law enforcement.

The boy’s adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman, did not report him missing. They later were declared suspects in the case by the county’s chief prosecutor, Jan Satterfield, who said the investigation could result in first-degree felony murder charges.

As of Friday, though, Adam’s whereabouts remain unknown to authorities. The last tip, Herzet said, came in months ago.

Adam would be 26 now.

“We’ve not had any contact with anyone who’s called and said, ‘Hey I’m Adam Joseph Herrman. I want to come talk to you,’” Herzet said. “It’s an open case here in Butler County, and we’re still trying to get to where we need to be to on getting some closure – finding him, his whereabouts, his remains, whatever it may be.”

He called the case “very frustrating.”

“We’re hoping with a reward, this might make somebody call.”

Anyone with information about Adam Herrman is asked to call the Butler County Sheriff’s Office at 316-322-4257 or 866-484-5924 or El Dorado Crime Stoppers at 316-321-1080.

Tipsters also can contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s hotline at 800-THE-LOST (843-5678).

Doug and Valerie Herrman have not faced charges connected to Adam’s disappearance. They claim he ran away from the family’s Towanda trailer home after Valerie spanked him one night.

The couple have said they did not report him missing out of fear they would lose custody of their other children.

Relatives have said that the Herrmans told family that Adam, a home-schooled child, had been returned to state custody.

After learning of the disappearance, authorities dug for Adam’s body in the Towanda mobile home park where he’d lived but turned up nothing. A search of nearby wooded areas also yielded no clues.

In 2011, Doug and Valerie Herrman pleaded guilty to felony theft for continuing to accept a state subsidy to help them care for their adoptive son after he vanished. They were ordered to pay $15,488 in restitution — the amount they pleaded guilty to wrongly accepting — and a fine of $2,500 each.

The couple received the $700 monthly subsidy until Adam’s 18th birthday, in 2005.

Butler County District Judge David A. Ricke also ordered Doug Herrman to serve nine months in prison for the theft and gave Valerie Herrman a seven-month prison term.

Herzet, who was the lead investigator on the case before becoming sheriff that year, said at the time that he was “focused on working this case as a homicide.”

“The Herrmans still are, in my eyes, suspects,” he said in 2011, “and we’re going to continue to work the case as the leads come in, and I hope we can resolve the case in the very near future and arrests are made.”

On Friday, he echoed similar resolve.

“A lot of my detectives have pictures of Adam hanging in their office. He’s not going to go away, and the case isn’t going to go away.

“ ... Every time we get a lead or something comes up, one of the detectives assigned to the case jumps right on it, and we follow it through to the very end.”

Contributing: Tim Potter of The Eagle.

 Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/12/20/4704909/butler-county-sheriff-expected.html#storylink=cpy

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So What?? Judge Henderson wants the State to review adoption recommendations

Are people really that gullible to believe this story? http://www.kansas.com/2013/11/04/3097090/judge-asks-state-to-review-some.html#emlnl=Morning_Headlines_Newsletter

This looks more like a cover up as the state will investigate itself, it's contractors, the DA's who prosecute the cases for the state and the Judges. Does anyone really expect the state to find wrong doing? After all the state would then be liable.

What about Judge Henderson? 

Let's not forget the mother that was jailed and her child who was shackled

http://bhazenwasjailedmotherinsedgwickcounty.blogspot.com/

The family that filed a complaint against Judge Henderson 

http://taoprotectchildreninks.blogspot.com/2013/06/complaint-against-judge.html

Daniel Gilyeat vs Wyandotte County Unified Government

Kansas Marine Hero Loses Children To CPS

Wichita DCF Director Diane Bidwell Resigns At Same Time Her Office Is Being Investigated... Coincidence?

Diane Bidwell — who runs the DCF office in Wichita — and Rep. Forrest Knox in a photo posted on Twitter in early 2012 by the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services.

"DCF officials in Topeka earlier this month confirmed that they were investigating complaints that the Wichita office was steering children at risk of entering the foster care system toward FaithBuilders, a faith-based group that some parents said was undercutting their efforts to be reunited with their children." "The accusations prompted Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, a Wichita Democrat, to ask DCF officials to investigate." read more here: http://www.hayspost.com/2013/10/15/head-dcf-official-in-resigns-amid-investigation/

Under Governor Brownback and DCF Phyllis Gilmore RECORD Number of Kansas Children are in Foster Care

http://www.khi.org/news/2013/aug/12/number-kansas-children-foster-care-continues-grow/
 The Kansas Health Institute's KHI numbers for children in foster care don't seem to match the State's own records.

Taken from the KHI website: "In Sedgwick County, the state’s most populous after Johnson County, the average number of children in out-of-home placements has increased from 950 in fiscal 2011 to 1,319 in fiscal 2013. On June 30 across Kansas, there were 5,719 children in out-of-home foster care settings, a mix of foster homes, relatives’ homes, group homes, psychiatric facilities, and juvenile detention facilities. That’s only the second time in the past 10 years that the number has exceeded 5,700 on the final day of the state’s fiscal year. The last time was in 2008, the onset of the Great Recession."

One thing is for certain, under Governor Brownback and DCF Secretary Phyllis Gilmore more children are being taken from their families, lives are being destroyed and Kansas children don't stand a chance of having any stability in their lives.

The numbers don't match. On the State's website it shows the total number of children served in Sedgwick County in fiscal 2013 was 1,452 which is higher than the 1,319 KHI reported. On the State's website it shows the total number of children served in out-of-home foster care settings was 8,853 which is also much higher than the 5,719 KHI reported. See link here: http://www.dcf.ks.gov/services/PPS/Documents/FY2013DataReports/ServedInDCFCustody/OOHPChildrenServedSFY2013.pdf

The Wichita Eagle Reported: "Over the past two years, near-record numbers of children have entered the state’s foster-care system, the Kansas Health Institute News Service reported. In Sedgwick County, the average number of children in out-of-home placements has increased from 950 in fiscal year 2011 to 1,319 in 2013. Statewide, there were 5,719 children in such placements as of June 30 – only the second time in the past 10 years that the number has exceeded 5,700 on the final day of the state’s fiscal year (the last time was at the start of the Great Recession in 2008)."

The numbers above are below the actual numbers listed by the State but then the Eagle took their story based on the KHI article. Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/08/18/2947009/eagle-editorial-foster-care-increase.html#storylink=cpy

Megyn Kelly With America Live Discusses Baby Sammy Wrongful Removal From Parents

Voices Not Heard

Connie Fahrbach seems to believe that if everyone had an attorney they would have stood a chance at a fair hearing. In reality, it wouldn't have mattered because the decisions were made prior. It's a corrupt court system filled with parasites. The safety and welfare of the children is not the priority of the Judges in Sedgwick County and no attorney, legal representation, could have made a difference in a case that was manipulated. Good Luck Connie, I only wish you the best! Published in the Wichita Eagle: Voices not heard I recently witnessed a case presented to a family law judge who renders decisions on issues such as parental rights. I walked away realizing that the family law legal system is designed only to serve the rich. If people are poor and cannot afford legal representation, their voices will not be heard. Citizens are allowed to file pro se motions, but the likelihood of the motion being filed correctly is slim. That also has a negative impact on the outcome. Individuals who can afford legal representation will be heard through their attorneys, and the likelihood of the judge rendering a decision in their favor is almost guaranteed. The judge does not require proof from a testifying case manager or the lawyer representing the wealthy. What the case manager and lawyer say is considered factual, and they do not have to provide evidence to support their statements. When deciding parental issues, there simply has to be a better system for financially struggling people who cannot afford legal counsel. I wonder how many loving parents have lost their children based upon their inability to afford case management services or legal representation when appearing before a judge. CONNIE FAHRBACH Andover Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/08/12/2934147/letters-to-the-editor-on-libertarianism.html#storylink=cpy

Sex-trafficking sting highlights vulnerability of foster children

Taken from: http://www.infowars.com/foster-care-system-traps-children-into-vicious-cycle-of-sex-abuse-2/ Children rescued from sex abuse are placed right back into it. Lee Ann McAdoo Infowars.com August 1, 2013 The FBI raid that rescued 105 sexually exploited children from a sex trafficking ring last weekend has highlighted the vulnerability of foster children. Sixty percent of runaways who are victims of sex trafficking had been in the custody of child protective services. Many times when children are rescued from sex traffickers they are put right back into the foster care system to repeat the same vicious cycle. Victims may even recruit other children into the very abuse they had just left. With the “child protectors” snatching even more children into the system to get more federal funding, there has become a serious shortage of good foster parents to handle the surplus of children, which means the bar has been set really low for people who can qualify to foster. Click on the link above for more on the story. Posted by LATimes http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-child-sex-20130730,0,1571781.story "According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the information clearinghouse that tracks missing child reports in the United States, 60% of runaways who are victims of sex trafficking had been in the custody of social services or in foster care." Posted by LATimes http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-child-sex-20130730,0,1571781.story

CPS Parasites and the Noble Lie

Does Brad Heyen also feel fortunate that his adoptive parents use to joke that his biological parents were Amish?

Kansas Children’s Service League’s focus shifts from adoption to prevention and keeping families together Kansas Children’s Service League’s focus shifts from adoption to prevention and keeping families together By Elizabeth Scheltens The Wichita Eagle ""Brad Heyen doesn’t remember a time when he didn’t know he was adopted. It was a topic that was up not only for discussion in the house where he grew up but also for questioning and for even humor. “My parents and I used to drive past Hutchison and see Amish horse-drawn buggies on the road,” Heyen said. “They always used to joke that my birth parents were inside.” Heyen’s story begins like many adoption stories in Kansas: with the Kansas Children’s Service League. The nonprofit organization, which celebrates its 120th anniversary this year, has been responsible for thousands of adoptions statewide since its founding in 1893."" Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/07/28/2911728/kansas-childrens-service-leagues.html#emlnl=Morning_Headlines_Newsletter#storylink=cpy

Do You Want To Be A Social Worker? MA, One half of social workers have been physically assaulted in a work related incident

http://masscosh.org/node/680
In Massachusetts, one half of social workers have been physically assaulted in a work related incident with assaults ranging from pushing, hitting, and choking to life-threatening attacks. Nation wide, 85% of social workers report that they have been subject to psychological aggression at some point in their careers and 30% have experienced physical assault perpetrated by clients as some point in their careers.

Where is Adam Herrman? Doug Herrman is incarcerated at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility

Where is Adam Herrman? Adam is the 11-year-old adopted son who disappeared from Valerie and Doug Herrmans’ Towanda home in 1999. The Herrmans never reported him missing, yet they continued to accept state money for his care. Valerie Herrman was sentenced to 7 months in prison (only served 6 months) for theft of $15,488 in state adoption subsidies.  http://www.kansas.com/2011/08/01/1957039/herrmans-face-prison-time-at-sentencing.html

Valerie Herrman was released on Jan 27th, 2012.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/82831684/Where-s-Adam-Herrman-Valerie-Herrman-Was-Released-From-Prison-Jan-27-2012

Doug Herrman is still incarcerated at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility. Earliest possible release date is March 20, 2012. This date could be affected by the parole board decision or good time and/or program credit.  

Adam born Irvin Groeninger III on June 8th, 1987 in Wichita, KS, his bio mother and father’s parental rights were severed by the Sedgwick County DA’s office, Nola Foulston.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/82869465/Where-is-Adam-Herrman-Doug-Herrman-is-incarcerated-at-the-Ellsworth-Correctional-Facility

Kansas Family Rights Coalition News Letters

Click on the links below:

Jan 2012 Kansas Family Rights Coalition News Letter

http://www.scribd.com/doc/80042764/Jan-2012-Kansas-Family-Rights-News-Letter

Feb 2012 Kansas Family Rights Coalition News Letter

http://www.scribd.com/doc/80043249/Feb-2012-Kansas-Family-Rights-Coalition-News-Letter

Boy stabbed with nail at the Wichita Children's Home

WICHITA — A 17-year-old boy was taken to Wesley Medical Center in serious condition this afternoon after he was stabbed with a nail in the chest at the Wichita Children’s Home.
Emergency dispatchers said Wichita police were called to the home shortly after 2:30 p.m. and found the boy with a nail impaled in his upper chest. The injury was not considered to be life-threatening, dispatchers said.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2012/01/28/2194237/boy-stabbed-with-nail-at-childrens.html#storylink=cpy

Teen Impaled In Chest With Nail

When officers arrived at the scene they found the teen walking down the street with the nail sticking out of the left side of his chest.

A teenager was hospitalized with serious injuries after he was found with a large nail impaled in his chest. Wichita police say the 17-year-old boy was found in the 800 block of North Holyoke Street around 2:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

When officers arrived at the scene they found the teen walking down the street with the nail sticking out of the left side of his chest. Officials say the victim was uncooperative and would not tell police what happened.

He was taken to a nearby hospital in serious condition. The incident is under investigation.

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Teen_Impaled_In_Chest_With_Nail_138266384.html