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This is a horrible story, I'll never understand how things like this could even happen

Abandoned children found living in Texas apartment with brother’s remains
Three siblings aged 15, 10 and seven discovered in Houston, telling police their brother had been dead a year
The skeletal remains of a child and three surviving siblings who appear to have been abandoned have been found inside an apartment in the Houston area of Texas, US.

One of the children, a 15-year-old, called the Harris county sheriff’s office on Sunday afternoon and told authorities that his nine-year-old brother had been dead for a year and the body was inside the apartment, the office said in a statement.

Deputies responded and found the teenager and two other siblings aged 10 and seven living alone in the apartment, said the Harris county sheriff, Ed Gonzalez. The other child’s skeletal remains were also located.

“It appears that the remains had been there for an extended period of time. And I emphasise extended,” Gonzalez said.

The sheriff said it also appeared the surviving children were “fending for each other”, with the oldest caring for the younger two. It was unclear whether any were attending school.

The younger children appeared malnourished and had physical injuries, the statement said. All three were taken to a hospital to be assessed and treated.
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Well, it's Biden's fault, of course! So say the local commenters in their cesspools.
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How Child Predator Robert Berchtold Kidnapped Actress Jan Broberg Twice In The 1970s


In the summer of 1972, Berchtold and his family moved into the same neighborhood in Pocatello, Idaho, that then-9-year-old Jan lived in with her parents, Mary Ann and Bob Broberg.

Jan later said that Berchtold befriended the family and began grooming her by doing everything from bringing her gifts to taking her horseback riding. According to Jan, her adult neighbor became almost like a second father to her. “He used to come to the back door of our home,” Jan told Deseret News. “He’d open the door and say, ‘Time to wake up. It’s a great day!’ He was our own personal alarm clock.”

“There was enough of a basis of trust that pretty much anything he said you kind of believed,” she explained.

On Oct. 17, 1974, Berchtold broke that trust when he put Jan in a motor home and abducted her. “Keep in mind that this man and his entire family had been our best friends for 2 and a half years prior to this experience,” Jan told ABC News in 2004.

Jan’s parents reported their daughter missing, and authorities located the girl and her captor in Mazatlan, Mexico, five weeks after they disappeared. Jan was returned home, but she was scared and kept quiet about what had happened. “I said, ‘No, Brother B did not hurt me,” she recalled. “At age 12 I was a pretty good actress.”

Two years later, in 1976, Jan was 14 when Berchtold convinced the teenager they needed to complete their original mission. He abducted her for a second time and hid her at a Catholic school for girls in Pasadena until the FBI rescued her four months later.
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AG Racine Secures $950,000 from Washington Hebrew Congregation's Preschool for Violating DC Childcare Safety Laws and Putting Children at Risk

December 28, 2022
Follows 2020 OAG Lawsuit Alleging That WHC Failed to Protect Children Under Its Care

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Karl A. Racine today announced that Washington Hebrew Congregation (WHC), a synagogue that also runs a childcare center, will pay $950,000 to affected families and the District for violating DC laws designed to protect children and creating an environment that put children at risk for abuse.

“What happened at Washington Hebrew Congregation is every parent’s worst nightmare,” said AG Racine. “Instead of protecting the children under their care, Washington Hebrew disregarded the law and failed to report incidents of harm, hired unqualified teachers, and ran an unlicensed summer childcare center for years. Today, we’re holding them accountable for putting DC’s youngest, most vulnerable residents in harm’s way.”

In August 2018, parents with children at WHC’s Edlavitch-Tyser Early Childhood Center learned that there had been allegations of sexual abuse. In the months that followed, it became clear that WHC had failed to protect the health, safety, and positive development of children under its care. WHC’s noncompliance with District laws and regulations governing childcare centers created an environment ripe for abuse. To date, fourteen families have reported that their children were victims of sexual abuse perpetrated by an unqualified, unsupervised assistant teacher, who was employed at the center from approximately January 2016 to August 2018.

The District’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA) prohibits a wide variety of deceptive and unlawful business practices. Under the CPPA, it is illegal to make misrepresentations about products or services, or to provide products or services that violate other District laws. In October 2020, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) filed a consumer protection lawsuit against WHC alleging that it violated District law by placing children in the care of unqualified, unsupervised staff, operating in violation of its license, and misleading parents about the safety of its programs. In September 2022, the Court found WHC liable for violating several of the childcare center regulations, including:

Operating unlicensed summer programs: Prior to 2019, WHC’s license allowed it to operate a childcare facility during the school year months only. However, between 2016 and 2018, it operated an unlicensed summer childcare program, known as Camp Keetov, that provided care to more than 150 children over three summers.

Placing children in the care of unqualified staff members: WHC repeatedly hired assistant teachers who failed to meet the District’s minimum requirements for experience and education for childcare providers. Under District law, assistant teachers must hold at least an associate degree or a high school diploma along with a training certification and competence in the field of early childhood education. The Court found that several childcare staff members – including parents of children attending the childcare center and college students hired for the unlicensed summer daycare – were unqualified in violation of District law. The Court also found that WHC failed to maintain records required by law to demonstrate that its staff is qualified.

Failing to adequately report incidents of harm to children: On at least four occasions, WHC failed to timely report incidents that could adversely affect the health, safety, and welfare of children enrolled at WHC’s childcare center to the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, even though such incidents were serious enough to end in the termination of those staff members’ employment.
As a result of OAG’s action, WHC must pay a total of $950,000, distributed in the following manner:

Payment to families: $300,000 paid to families who enrolled their children in WHC’s summer childcare program, Camp Keetov, during the summers of 2016-2018.

Payment to DC charity: $100,000 paid to a District-approved charitable organization in light of the District’s claims that WHC violated the District’s Nonprofit Corporations Act (NCA).

Civil penalties: $550,000 paid to the District for civil penalties and legal costs.
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