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Child protective services (CPS) refers to government agencies in the United States that investigate allegations of child abuse or neglect, and if confirmed, intervene by providing services to the family through a safety plan, in-home monitoring, supervision, or if a safety plan is not feasible or in emergencies, removing the child from the custody of their parent or legal guardian.
A 2004 report by Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn was very critical of the Texas foster care system. [10] A follow-up statement with continued criticisms of the Texas foster care system was made in 2006 by the Comptroller and renewed a request to have the governor create a Family and Protective Services Crisis Management Team. [11]
Wesley Mathews and his wife Sini Mathews, residents of Richardson, Texas and originally from Kerala adopted Saraswati Kumari on July 18, 2016. [7] They renamed her "Sherin" along with their own surname "Mathews". Babita Kumari stated that at the time of the adoption, the couple spoke no Hindi, which was the only language Sherin spoke. However ...
Instead, the state's child protective services agency, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), ordered the parents to leave the hospital and placed the baby in foster care.
Texas CPS declined to comment on the accusations when reached by Yahoo News. “Due to CPS cases being confidential by state law, we cannot comment on specific cases,” the agency said in a ...
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CPS first took the girl away in August 1998, and she had three different foster families. Logan was taken in and out of CPS custody; DHS had asked Baker to stop associating with her mother and asked for any boyfriends of Baker to be cleared with the agency, which Baker complied with. She herself was never accused of directly abusing the child. [3]
Probable cases are included from December 11, 2020. Cases with unknown county of residence were omitted from December 1 through December 9, 2021. Texas ceased estimating recoverie