by admin | Dec 6, 2004 | Health / Medicine
The Children’s Trust Fund has started a seven-county pilot project to reduce the number of cases of shaken baby syndrome. Seventy children have died in Missouri in the last five years because somebody shook them. The State has a new abuse reporting law that...
by admin | Nov 23, 2004 | Health / Medicine
A four-month-old boy taken from his parents in July and put in foster care has died in Springfield. An autopsy indicates Christopher Henry Cryderman died from a rapidly spreading infection. The medical examiner says there’s no evidence of abuse. The boy’s...
by admin | Nov 13, 2004 | Crime / Courts
More lawsuits have been filed in Jackson County Circuit Court against a former Kansas City priest accused of sexual abuse. Four more men allege former priest Thomas Reardon sexually abused them when they were boys. Reardon, who left the priesthood in 1989, is also...
by admin | Aug 31, 2004 | Politics / Govt
New standards for foster parents are now the state law. The state is requiring more information to be gathered about people who want to become foster parents. The Children’s Division of the Social Services Department has run background checks by name for...
by admin | Aug 26, 2004 | Crime / Courts
Possession of child pornography becomes a felony on Saturday. At present, child porn possession is only a misdemeanor. Representative Mark Bruns of Jefferson City sponsors the bill that makes possession a felony and he says a child porn case in Jefferson City this...