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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A California man was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for abusing foster children he had assigned to care for in his home, including some who had been previously tortured by their parents.
Jose Centeno of Rohnert Park, in Sonoma County, California, was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences last week for torturing, starving, raping and sodomizing his three foster children, whom he kept hidden from the public in cages for 10 years. I have covered a lot of these kinds of...
But there is a growing recognition that children need more support when they leave foster care. Seven states (Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Nebraska, Arizona and Oregon) have now passed laws to help children keep their federal benefits – although a similar bill in California was ...
Also, she is considering adoption if all goes well during the foster care. Does she get 12 weeks FMLA leave for the foster parent and an additional 12 weeks next year for FMLA if she adopts the child? Both the FMLA and the state California Family Rights Act (CFRA) allow an eligible ...
Marcelino Olguin was sentenced to seven years in state prison and was taken away in handcuffs after his sentencing was read in court in Riverside County, California. His wife, Rosa Olguin, and their daughter, Lennys Olguin, were sentenced to four years each of probation. They cried du...
My in-laws were just telling me yesterday about some of their experiences with this. They were told it’s illegal here to bury large livestock; the instruction is to drag the carcass out to the woods, which we have plenty of, and let nature take its course. (I’ve since looked up ...
In order to effectively implement the new laws, funds will be redirected from congregate care to prevention services. According toCasey Family Programs, congregate homes should be used to serve children with complex behavioral challenges, not to meet general placement needs. Of the approximately 437...
“pass through” some or all benefits to eligible foster children and those children could receive a portion of the benefits while in care and/or upon leaving care. Congress could also make changes to the selection of representative payees so that certain individuals, such as the child’s ...
I am often reminded of an experience I had during a business trip to California several years ago. I was traveling from my hotel to my work place using the busy coastal highway, Highway 1. Opinion Get smart opinions on the topics North Texans care about. ...