Thursday, September 11, 2008

Public asked to pitch in to help foster kids

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Public asked to pitch in to support foster kids

The community can get involved in an activity that could make them feel good inside and out.

A softball tournament this weekend will benefit children in foster care and allow them to participate in extracurricular activities.

"The extra curricular activities we feel are so vital in order to heal the wounds of these neglected and abused kids that we serve," KVC Resource Coordinator Julia Yanek said.

KVC Behavioral Healthcare serves about 900 children in Shawnee County alone, she added.

Pizza and beverages will be for sale at the game.

"It's a fun family event for everyone to come out to," she said.

100 percent of the proceeds go to benefit children in foster care.

KVC covers 54 counties in Kansas, providing education, social services and medical and behavioral health care.

This is the third year for the benefit softball tournament.

It is scheduled for Saturday at the Shawnee County North Park, 300 NE 43rd St. Rain date is Sunday.

To sign up, call KVC at 785-271-1200.

Learn more about KVC here.

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parkay (anonymous) says...

"Whenever the victim is a child, we're the only voice that child has. As a mother, it was heartbreaking to see this little baby left behind to possibly die. I was looking for an explanation."
. . . Chicago Police Detective Jennifer Ryle, on the investigation of a newborn abandoned in July
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Chicago police have identified a 15-year-old girl as the mother of an abandoned newborn boy found in a grocery bag under a bush in July. Baby Wilson, named after the street where he was rescued, was rushed to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in serious condition. The mother had left the injured infant to die alone because, having concealed her pregnancy, she was afraid her parents would be angered by the birth, and was ignorant of the 2001 Illinois safe haven law which allows legal abandonment of unharmed newborns up to 7 days old at police and fire stations and hospitals and clinics. Wilson, however, had suffered a skull fracture, cut lip, and bruising, likely from a beating prior to the abandonment. The mother is charged with 2 counts of attempted murder and 1 count of aggravated battery, but will likely get off with a few years detention if tried as a juvenile. Prosecution as an adult would be much more appropriate, considering the heinous, brutal, and selfish nature of the crime.
Police are yet attempting to identify and investigate the father, likely a sexual predator.
This is perhaps evidence of the stability and improved humanitarian conditions that Chicago community organizers have wrought through their political machinations?
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The Montgomery County, PA District Attorney's Office is deciding whether to file charges against the 29-year-old mother who illegally abandoned her newborn boy Sunday at a fire station flagpole in Plymouth, PA and anonymously called police. Baby Jack is in custody of Montgomery County Children and Youth.
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An abandoned newborn girl was found in the bushes near a North Bay Village, FL apartment building Tuesday morning after a woman went to Jackson-Memorial Hospital with heavy bleeding usually associated with giving birth. Lorena Godinez Perez, 19, likely an illegal alien from Guatemala, denied to police giving birth, and denied being pregnant, or having sexual activities. Doctors had notified police to conduct a search, which turned up the abandoned baby at 2 a.m. The full-term infant girl was treated in serious condition at Jackson-Memorial Hospital, and a part of a plant stuck in her throat was removed. The mother faces attempted murder charges and deportation following a prison term.

September 11, 2008 at 8:22 p.m. ( | suggest removal )