Re:11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony ...
by cactusface on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:29AM
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Maybe the parents simply contacted the author with the story and asked not to be named. It's kind of pointless journalism though if you have no verifiable facts. In some other stories she uses real and full names; she has a TV show and is a published author; I don't feel like she made this up.
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Re:11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony ...
by nsxwolf on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:53AM
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She has a pretty good reputation, and has had no shortage of stories like this to report on, so I doubt she want or need to would tarnish all that.
It might just be that in a country with 300 million people, this is going to happen once in a while. It may or may not represent a general erosion of parent's rights and civil liberties.
Re:11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony ...
by Klinky on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:34AM
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Having a reality TV show and running a popular blog would make me think they're more likely to spin or embellish things.
Re:11-Year-Old Boy Played in His Yard. CPS Took Him, Felony ...
by ghaff on Friday June 12, 2015 @12:42AM
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Or simply not probe too deeply into a really perfect story about how horrible things have gotten. Might not be the case here but, if it were, hardly unique. See, for example, this discussion of the Rolling Stone Duke story: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-21/a-messy-ans...