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The former operator of a Charlotte after-school program was sentenced to five to eight years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to three counts of…
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This week Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools faced troubling allegations about its past, even as leaders try to focus on school safety for the coming year. A…
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The Kilah Davenport Child Protection Act passed the U.S. Senate unanimously on Wednesday night. It's a bill that asks Attorney General Eric Holder to…
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Last year in Mecklenburg County, DSS received over 14,000 reports of possible abuse and neglect in children, a figure even higher than the year before.…
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State health officials are continuing to review whether Union County mishandled any child abuse cases when Wanda Larson worked for the county. Larson was…
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We now know more about the charges of abuse against a Union County couple accused of handcuffing a boy to their front porch with a dead chicken around his…
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Union County commissioners will move to dissolve the board that oversees the county’s Division of Social Services, according to one commissioner in a…
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Union County fired Wanda Larson on Friday, accusing the former supervisor with the Department of Social Services of “unacceptable personal conduct and…
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The Union County Department of Social Services used a “bogus” interpretation of state law in dismissing a 2012 sheriff’s complaint against a top DSS…
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In the week since the Union County sheriff’s office charged a Monroe couple with handcuffing an 11-year-old boy by the ankle to their front porch, we know…