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On April 27, 1964, a one-day old infant, Paul Joseph Fronczak was kidnapped from Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.A woman dressed as a nurse had entered the hospital room of Dora Fronczak and told her the doctor needed to examine the baby; Dora handed the baby to the unknown woman, who left the hospital with the baby and never returned.
A judge convicted a former state child welfare worker Friday of child endangerment in connection with the 2019 beating death of a 5-year-old suburban Chicago boy by his mother, but the judge ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday took aim at the state's Department of Children and Family Services, which has been haunted for decades by deaths wrought of abuse and ...
Official statistics on child abandonment do not exist in most countries. [5] In Denmark, an estimate of child abandonment prevalence was 1.7 infants per 100,000 births, [5] with another source suggesting higher prevalence in Central and Eastern European countries such as Slovakia with data suggesting 4.9 per 1,000 live births. [11]
A judge sentenced a former Illinois state child welfare worker to six months in jail Thursday in connection with a 5-year-old boy's death. Lake County Associate Judge George Strickland also ...
A runaway is different from child abandonment or a "throwaway" youth (a youth who isn't formally abandoned by parents, but is frequently ignored in favor of another sibling). Runaway youth are evenly divided male and female, although girls are more likely to seek help through shelters and hotlines. [ 12 ]
Abandoned child syndrome is a proposed behavioral or psychological condition that is said to result from the loss of one or both parents. Abandonment may be physical or emotional ; that is, the parent may abandon the child by failing to be present in their life, or by withholding affection, nurturing, or stimulation. [ 1 ]
He was found abandoned outside an Arlington Heights apartment complex on a cold day in 1983. Sean was just hours old when he was left inside a dirty garbage dumpster to die. "I was a mistake that ...