Foster carer charged with assaulting kids
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- Category: Child Protection NSW media and newspaper articles
- Created: Friday, 17 January 2014 12:21
- Written by Herald Sun
A 77-YEAR-OLD foster carer on the NSW north coast has been arrested and charged with indecently assaulting three children in his care.
The man was arrested at his home in Lennox Head on Wednesday and is accused of indecently assaulting three children previously in his care between 2009 and 2011.
Foster carer arrested and charged for physically abusing children - near Newcastle
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- Category: Child Protection NSW media and newspaper articles
- Created: Monday, 13 January 2014 17:18
- Written by NSW Police Media Release
Child Abuse Squad detectives have arrested and charged a woman for physically assaulting three children in her care.
Last Friday (10 January 2014), police were informed that three children housed in foster care in the Lake Macquarie area were suffering from a number of physical injuries.
The children – two boys, aged 6 and 7, and a girl aged 5 – had obvious bruising on various parts of their bodies.
Queensland's billion-dollar child safety bill
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- Category: Child Protection Queensland media and newspaper articles
- Created: Monday, 21 January 2019 21:34
- Written by Felicity Caldwell - Brisbane Times
The Queensland government spent more than $1 billion last year to save children from neglect and abuse.
But almost 6000 youth aged up to 17 years of age were still sadly the subject of substantiated complaints to Child Safety in 2017-18.