After two years of investigation and legal action from parents, three CPS workers in North Carolina were arrested and indicted with forty-one felony and misdemeanor charges for removing children without proper judicial oversight. This unlawful practice is alleged to have gone on for over a decade. Those arrested were the former director of the Cherokee […]
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Homeschool Mom Falsely Accused of Murder and Sentenced to Life in Prison
Hannah Overton was a homeschool mom of five from Texas. She and her husband were in the process of adopting Andrew, a 4-year-old boy they were fostering. Little did they know that their lives were about to be forever changed. In October 2016, after Andrew began to show symptoms of a stomach bug and then […]
Pennsylvania Court of Appeals Returns Daughter to Parents and Scolds Trial Court Judge
On April 6, 2016, a young girl — known only as N.M. in court documents — was extremely fussy, causing her concerned parents to bring her to the family’s pediatrician. The pediatrician diagnosed her as having an ear infection and prescribed an antibiotic. After leaving the pediatrician’s office, N.M.’s mother felt a “popping” on N.M.’s […]