http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4375064.ece

Times wins ruling over secrecy of family court
July 22, 2008
Rosemary Bennett, Social Affairs Correspondent

Details of private family court proceedings that led to a mother
fleeing the country with her son after he was placed in foster care
have been disclosed after legal action by The Times.

The highly unusual ruling allows the publication of undisclosed
details of the case. The boy’s stepfather was sent to prison for 16
months for helping the mother to remove him from care and flee abroad.

She has since had another baby, the couple’s first child. The
stepfather has been released from prison but is forbidden to contact
his wife.

The Times fought to publish more information after an outcry from
readers when the case was reported by Camilla Cavendish . She
highlighted the perceived secrecy of family courts and the lack of
scrutiny of social workers, who have sweeping powers to remove
children from their parents. Times readers were particularly outraged
that the stepfather served a longer sentence than many muggers.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/columnists/article4375662.ece...

July 21, 2008
Judges rule adoption case a 'disgrace'
Frances Gibb, Legal Editor

Britain’s most senior family judge yesterday lifted a prohibition on
the publication of details of a care proceedings case so that the
public could form its own view of the behaviour of the local authority
in the case, Medway Council in Kent, and the decisions of the court to
date.

The highly unusual move came after an application by The Times and a
series of articles questioning the “secrecy” of the family courts and
the lack of redress afforded those caught up in the family justice
system.

The decision of Sir Mark Potter, President of the Family Division, is
welcome. But it would be wrong to categorise family judges as only
acting defensively in the face of a barrage of press criticism or
being on the back foot.

http://loudounextra.washingtonpost.com/news/2008/jul/21/grand-jury-may-get-case-boys...

Grand Jury May Get Case Of Boy's Death
By Tom Jackman
Monday, July 21, 2008

A Loudoun County man whose 21-month-old son died when he left him
inside a hot sport-utility vehicle for 10 hours could face indictment
as soon as today, and authorities are anxious to begin legal
proceedings...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1036697/Now-Chris-Eubanks-ex-wife-brings...

Now Chris Eubank's ex-wife brings back the two boys they gave up for
adoption
By DAN NEWLING
21st July 2008

Chris Eubank could face a custody battle after his sons abandoned
their American adoptive mother.

Less than two years after they were signed over to single mother Irene
Hutton, Sebastian, 16, and his brother Chris Jnr, 18, flew back to the
UK, leaving the bizarre arrangement in chaos.

Yesterday Miss Hutton claimed the teenagers had been 'snatched back'
by their natural mother who was angry the adoption had become public
knowledge.

Speaking from her home in Las Vegas, Miss Hutton, 51, said the
brothers' departure had 'wrecked her life' and vowed to launch a legal
battle to get them back.

The boys' natural mother admitted the adoption was arranged so the
boys could gain American citizenship and improve their prospects for
sporting careers.

I posted that ken pangborn claimed "Miranda was a STUPID WASTE OF TIME AND
DID NOTHING!"

ken pangborn responded with "HERE is what *I* actually said:"

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Danny police did NOT believe that folks had ANY right to be silent until
Miranda! Regardless of the 5th amendment LOTS of jerkoffs like YOU didn't
think it existed.. You say it did ALWAYS exist BUT.............. Miranda
was a STUPID WASTE OF TIME AND DID NOTHING!

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Yet he claims I was the one who said "Miranda was a STUPID WASTE OF TIME AND
DID NOTHING!"

And he was merely quoting me.

First, I never said that.

Second, anyone see quotation marks in pangborn's statement?

Quotation marks that would indicate that he was quoting something someone
said?

http://www.youthtoday.org/publication/article.cfm?article_id=2156&id=92

D.C. Child Welfare Head Resigns After Second Death in a Month
(July 17, 2008) by Nick Drymalski

Sharlynn E. Bobo, the embattled director of the D.C. Child and Family
Services Agency (CFSA), resigned late Wednesday night (July 17), a day
after the agency publicly declared that it had done nothing wrong in
the death Monday of a five-month-old boy who was under its
supervision.

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced the resignation in a news release
that was posted on his website. The release quoted Bobo as saying
that questions about the agency's leadership were distracting from its
work.

Fenty immediately named CFSA deputy director Roque Gerald as Bobo's
interim replacement. Gerald heads CFSA's Office of Clinical Practice,
which provides in-house clinicians to serve CFSA clients.

By Thursday, Bobo's biography had been removed from the agency's
website, as had the summary of the executive staff. Also removed was
the press release detailing the agency's contacts with the five-month-
old and his family.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1YqMxvPgnzc

Notice how this caseworker really has
NOTHING yet is asserting that the child
would be removed because of the
Dad's refusal to submit without a warrant.

Dan Sullivan, Did this Dad do it right?

Passing this on:

ADOPTEE RIGHTS PROTEST:
END THE DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ADOPTED PERSONS IN THE UNITED
STATESwww.adopteerights.netJuly 22, 2008
Lafayette Square Park, New Orleans at 11:30 am

In the US over a million adopted persons do not have access to their
own birth certificates. All non-adopted persons have access to their
birrth certificates - this is discrimination.
Adopted persons are tax-paying voting citizens that are not treated
equally. The participants of this demonstration believe that every
citizen of the United States should be treated equally. To do
otherwise is discrimination. We would like all remaining states to
introduce legislation that will allow adopted persons in the United
States equal access to their original birth certificates.
Please join us!

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080719.wJoey19/BNStory/Nati.../

'Baby Joey' takes his first steps to find mother
JESSICA LEEDER
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
July 19, 2008

It was 30 years ago yesterday that Therese Skomar was walking through
a back entrance at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon and sped past a
small, closed shoebox tucked inside the doorway.

On the way to visit her father in the hospital, Ms. Skomar had ducked
in through an entrance mostly used by doctors.

Something about that box made her stop and double back. She bent to
lift the lid, and what Ms. Skomar saw inside made her scream. Homeless
and nameless, the box's occupant was a wriggling, pink-cheeked male
infant. The emergency room doctor on duty, Joe Chin, guessed the boy
was five days old. The baby was one of the first recorded cases of
child abandonment in Saskatoon; nurses dubbed him “Baby Joey” or
“little Joe” after the doctor, and posed for pictures happily
swaddling him.

Baby Mystery Takes Gruesome Twist
By DAN NEPHIN
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AP
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WILKINSBURG, Pa. (July 18) - A body with its hands bound was found
Friday at the apartment of a woman who showed up at a hospital with a
newborn she falsely claimed was her child but later said she had
obtained for $1,000, authorities said.

The body was found in the home of 38-year-old Andrea Curry-Demus,
police said. Authorities would not say whether it was male or female.

Wilkinsburg Police Chief Ophelia Coleman said the body was found lying
face down. She said she didn't know how long it had been there.

Police visited the building Thursday night but did not go into that
apartment, Coleman said. Instead, a relative of Curry-Demus led them
to another apartment, she said.