15 May 2008

Deanna & Alyssa’s Story

Child protective services removed three-year-old Deanna and six-month-old Alyssa from their New Jersey home in 1998 after neighbors called to report the poor treatment of animals on the premises. Deanna’s teeth were decayed. Alyssa was malnourished. Her neck was too weak to support her head, which was flattened because she had been left lying on [...]

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15 May 2008

Danielle’s Story

Danielle’s life was changed when Children’s Rights took legal action in Tennessee. She had been abused and neglected from the time she was born. The state took her away from her abusive parents when she was just an infant. It wasn’t until she was three that her parents’ rights were terminated and she was freed [...]

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15 May 2008

Manny’s Story

Manny was just three years old when he and his brother were first taken away from their home and placed in foster care after multiple confirmed reports of abuse and neglect. In the years that followed, they would be bounced around to more than ten different homes and subjected to one ordeal after another. At [...]

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07 May 2008

Chris’s Story

Chris lived through a horror story for twelve years, passing in and out of Michigan’s child welfare system — and getting bounced around from one foster home to the next — before he was finally adopted at the age of 14. At two, he was removed from the home of his alcoholic mother — and [...]

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