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Child Protective Services, CPS, has devastated and destroyed hundreds of thousands of families in America during the last thirty years leaving a trail of broken hearts, broken dreams, and shattered childhoods.
Rather than helping families, government agents have used unconstitutional laws in Juvenile Court to rip children away from their loving parents, break asunder God-given, natural, parent-child bonds, and adopt the children of the grieving out to others who profit financially with large monthly adoption subsidy payments.
Child Protective Services must be stopped! The law that started this, CAPTA, must be repealed. We must work tirelessly to inform the public of this very dangerous travesty of justice. We must keep faith knowing that if there is a God, there is an answer and a way to end this heartache.
Child Protective Services Agents - please come to your senses! Family destruction on false or trivial grounds is wrong, reprehensible, and inhumane.
Fosterers - be aware that for the money you get you are holding much-loved children away from their grieving families while the parents are forced to perform a service plan that is anything but a service to them. I call this hostage holding for the government. This is not kindness - to help misguided government agents destroy family relationships and break loving bonds.
CPS workers and fosterers - I ask that you now let the children of the innocent return to their homes where they are truly valued, adored, and loved by the parents God gave them.
Family rights are God-given rights. And they should not be ignored or postponed. Every moment these loving parents and children spend separated from one another is a torment beyond what anyone should ever have to bear.
It is unworthy of human dignity to allow this terrorism and torture of families to go on without saying something, speaking out, and trying to make a change.
Site mission: To provide information and support for families attacked by Child Protective Services and child welfare agents, especially those families facing false or trivial accusations of child abuse or neglect; and for researchers working to protect natural family rights.
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Fighting Child Protective Services False Accusations
August 9, 2009
The New Jersey Office of the Child Advocate wants to stop issuing information on individual cases of children killed in foster homes, preferring to focus on “annual reports on trends” instead, through their Child Fatality and Near-Fatality Review Board.
New Jersey’s State Department of Children and Families apparently intends to continue to release details about cases in which children are killed when under supervision of the state child welfare system.
There have been some terrible, mind-bending deaths of children in foster homes in New Jersey, including starvations. You can search the FightCPS archives for more New Jersey foster child death information.
Source: Clarification: Child welfare deaths story published on August 3, 2009 at Philly.Com.
The Cover-Up
Back when I started investigating child protective services, it was rare to hear about children killed while in foster homes. It seemed foster child deaths were covered up, white washed, and forgotten. In one California county a series of file cabinets full of reports of children abused in foster homes were found in a back room, the reports uninvestigated.
Child abuse in foster homes didn’t warrant investigations because there was no federal money to be made by taking children from bad foster homes. It still seems to be low-priority to many CPS social workers.
Federal funding is only given for taking children from their natural family homes, not from foster homes.
Things have changed in the last twenty years. Now foster child deaths are being reported on in newspapers more often, and those media businesses are demanding access to child welfare records about foster children killed while in state custody.
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Comment by mountain19 — August 9, 2009 @ 6:11 pm
I have an existing case that I have mentioned on other articles in detail. I have been court ordered to have my son spend every weekend without fail with his Dad to possibly prepare him to be placed with his father who he has only known for a year & 2 months at 1-2 visits a month. I am sooo glad this site is still going!! THANK YOU….pray that all unfairness in life stop!! Tell God no more!!! Suffer these children for the egos of such undisciplined officials who DON’T KNOW HOW TO DO THIER JOB!!!
Thank you again for this site!!!!!!
Comment by A.Sigala — August 14, 2009 @ 8:03 am
One thing folks can do is to call the attorneys in their own states, relating your PERSON KNOWLEDGE OF LIES WHICH CASEWORKERS AND SUPERVISORS PROMULGATE.
If you know of a suit in your county, call up the attorneys of record for the plaintiffs. ( Usually the bio parents )
The children in NJ were awarded MILLIONS MORE DUE TO A CALL I MADE TO THE ATTORNEYS, attesting to the fact that often CASEWORK SUPERVISORS ARE MSW’S AND OFTEN HOLD PRIVATE INSURANCE FOR THEIR ERRORS AND OMISSIONS.
This folks is INSURANCE WHICH TRUE MSW’S HAVE OR SHOULD HAVE IN ORDER TO PRACTICE THEIR OCCUPATION.
One of my major interests is getting folks to sue based on MALPRACTICE INSURANCE OR WHAT IS TERMED ERRORS AND OMISSIONS INSURANCE.
Note that CASEWORKERS IN TEXAS ALSO ALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE THIS INSURANCE, BASED ON PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS.
So, readers of fightcps, there is some recompense available to you. Please, parents, investigate this with your attorney.
Attorneys will TAKE A CASE WHEN THEY KNOW THERE IS INSURANCE AVAILABLE.
New thread:
What states allow caseworkers to purchase insurance due to cw negligence or absolute malice?
Ans; TEXAS WAS ONE.
Who knows of other states?
This will help our reform efforts considerably.
Linda, please comment.
Thanks. F.
Comment by fern — August 16, 2009 @ 8:23 am
Check this out from GA DFCS read the 2nd sentence under procedures practice issues………………….
??BACK CONTENTS FORWARD??
2109.9 Report to the Missing Children Information Center
Requirement
Cooperate with law enforcement officials when requested to submit information to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Missing Children Information Center. This applies to children in the department’s custody who are missing (e.g., runaways).
Procedures/Practice Issues
County departments may receive requests for information or they can contact law enforcement to submit information. Do not indicate on information provided to the center that a missing child is in the department’s custody. This eliminates the need to obtain the court’s consent to publish the name or the picture of the child; however, counties desiring the court’s approval may request it.
Parents of children not in the department’s custody can provide authorization to use the Missing Children Information Center. The center’s activity is authorized in Chapter 3, Title 35, O.C.G.A., Article 4.
Information about the center is available from:
GBI ? Missing Children
Post Office Box 370808
Decatur, Georgia 30037?0808
Telephone: (404) 244?2554
Comment by Callie — August 17, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
The content of this article is very sensitive. This is a topic that needs to be addressed and I found the information given very useful. Thanks for sharing.
Comment by Ventrilo — August 20, 2009 @ 4:25 am
I know the Iowa Supreme Court will cover up fostercare abusing our children and Iowa Supreme Court will cover up DHS lying to the courts the people in Iowa Supreme Court should go down to. they are the ones who making the bad decisions giving murderers seconds chances or a new trial but us poor parents we can’t have a new trial or second chances or be heard. some of us don’t need second chances because we haven’t done nothing wrong in the first place.
Comment by Terri Rote — August 29, 2009 @ 9:03 am
Thank You all for posting and having this website. I have found useful information. I like many other parents today was ignorant to my rights and because of that I was taken full advantage of by CPS and now I’m not going to stand for it anymore. I would love to tell my story but going through it right now, I just don’t want to take the risk of bringing harm to my own children.
Comment by Medina, L. — September 17, 2009 @ 11:35 am
I am not going through anything right at this time with cps but i have in the past would like to hear from and help people in the Eastern Kentucky area. My email is DP41844 at yahoo.com. I fought them and won. Know your rights ans use every one of them
Comment by Deborah Perkins — September 28, 2009 @ 5:19 am
I was a foster mother for 8 years. The boys left involuntarily at ages 8 and 13. In this case, their family could not care for them. At ages 14 and 18 they returned on their own. After they left me they were shoved around to 7 different foster homes. I treated these boys as if they were my own. We traveled, had big birthday parties, did homework together and they were loved by myself and entire family.The Children’s Services of Orange County and Los Angeles County made false accusations against me. But I kept video;s and 1000 pictures of the love we shared. If people like myself had been rewarded for good parenting, people would be able to distinguish the good and the bad. One day I would like the opportunity to show everyone what my foster children mean’t to me.
Comment by Peggy Hankin — October 10, 2009 @ 3:28 pm
15-year-old arraigned on open murder charge in Midland County death
Steven J. Pribbernow also faces charges of assault with intent to commit murder
By Kelly Dame
of the Daily News
kdame@mdn.net
Published: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 11:50 AM EDT
15-year-old Steven J. Pribbernow sits in the Midland County Courthouse during his arraignment on Tuesday afternoon. Pribbernow is accused of stabbing and killing a 17-year-old as well as injuring three others. He is charged as an adult in the case.
Officials are mum on what was behind a Tuesday morning stabbing that left a 17-year-old dead, three hurt, and a 15-year-old boy charged with murder.
Steven Jeffrey Pribbernow Jr. is charged as an adult in the case, and faces one count of open murder plus three counts of assault with the intent to murder.
Officials released the names of the victims in the attack at a Geneva Township home late this morning. The Daily News had already learned those names though court documents not filed in this case and through comments made to the paper’s website.
Killed was 17-year-old Justin Steven Pribbernow. Injured were Kody Christopher Pribbernow, 13 1/2; Kevin David Pribbernow, 15; and Joshua Saylor, 32. Saylor was taken by FlightCare to the St. Mary’s of Michigan Hospital where he was in fair condition this morning. Kody was believed taken to MidMichigan Medical Center, where a spokeswoman said he was not listed in the hospital’s patient directory. Kevin was believed taken to Covenant HealthCare, and a spokeswoman said he was not listed as a patient. All three underwent surgery, officials have said.
At Steven Pribbernow’s arraignment, conducted late Tuesday afternoon, Midland County Prosecutor Mike Carpenter asked District Judge Stephen P. Carras to deny bail and place Pribbernow in the county jail rather than the Juvenile Care Center. Carpenter said considering the ages of the juvenile victims, Pribbernow presents a risk to other youngsters at the detention center.
Midland attorney Dan Duke has been appointed by the court as defense attorney, and said he discussed the prosecutor’s request with Pribbernow.
“I think at the present time … it makes sense,” to place his client in the jail, Duke said.
Pribbernow was brought to the hearing, his hands cuffed behind his back, scratches visible on his right forearm. He wore a baggy dark blue patterned polo shirt and green slacks that emphasized his small stature, facing Carras as he read the charges. At the third count, Pribbernow looked down.
DREW ANGERER | photo@mdn.net Midland County Sheriff Deputy Frederic Jaessing holds up a tarp while members of the Michigan State Police Crime Laboratory examine the victim of a stabbing that occured Tuesday morning at 5108 McNally Road in Geneva Township. One person was dead at the scene and three others were injured.
Both open murder and assault with the intent to commit murder are punishable by up to life in prison. In making the decision to charge the teen as an adult, Carpenter said he took into account the seriousness of the case as well as other aggravating factors.
Carpenter said laws regarding juveniles dictate that youngsters must be charged within 24 hours of the offense. He said family dynamics include numerous children, a divorce and adoptions — the records of which are sealed as a matter of customary court rules. The home is not a foster care provider, local court officials said.
Joshua Saylor is the husband of Jessica Pribbernow, who is the adoptive mother of five boys and the biological mother of two girls with her ex-husband. All of the children, including the adopted boys, share her last name. State appeals court documents show the adopted boys were taken away from their biological parents due to neglect and failure to protect. They share one biological mother; the oldest three share the same biological father, while the youngest two have a different biological father.
Jessica Pribbernow’s ex-husband lives in the Farwell area, officials said in court. They were unable to contact him before the arraignment.
Midland Public Schools Superintendent Carl Ellinger said some of the Pribbernow children attend schools within the district. He said “a couple” of them attend MPS elementary schools, and one attends a middle school.
“It’s a very difficult situation for the family and the communities involved,” Ellinger said.
“From what I know … they’re good kids,” Ellinger continued. “Just a nice, normal family coming to the school system.”
The stabbing was reported at 6:30 a.m. by Jessica Pribbernow, bringing all on-duty sheriff’s deputies, the Coleman Community Fire Department, four ambulances from MidMichigan Medical Center EMS, Chief Deputy Medical Examiner Dennis Wagner and the helicopter, which landed in the home’s front yard.
First responders were told to wait a distance from the home while deputies secured the scene before entering to render medical aid.
The suspect also was hurt, and was taken to MidMichigan after the incident. Midland County Sheriff’s Capt. Mike Goodall said Pribbernow was taken into custody without incident and he did not know how the boy was hurt.
Goodall said the weapon was a knife, but he did not know what kind of knife.
There were family members inside the home who were not injured, and they were interviewed by a detective.
The home — a ranch with a basement and attached garage — is set back from the road, accessible by a gravel drive and ringed by a fence and pine trees. Technicians from the Michigan State Police Crime Lab at Bridgeport also were at the scene collecting evidence.
Link: http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2009/08/update_15yearold_charged_as_ad.html
Comment by faith baden — October 31, 2009 @ 9:54 pm
we lost our kids to the system as well for lies and being set up as well.this top write up is on my kids in their adopted home .the 17 year old that dead was my son justin mcbride ,and his two little brothers kevin and kody were also badly hurt but had made it .justin got his throat cut and stabbed all over his body and his brother kevin got stabbed all over his face ,neck ,lungs,and kidneys ,and kody got some of his fingers cut off and was also cut on his body in several places .and they put them back in her care still .she took us to court yesterday and try to put a p.p.o on us and got laught out of court .she wont tell me where justin is at and she had him cremated .and wont let us go to his fureal but only gave our family hour to say good bye to him .
Comment by faith baden — October 31, 2009 @ 10:03 pm
Don’t worry in here upstate New york it is just as bad checked into one cps workers past and found out he did not even have the back ground to do the job his mother was in local politics and that is how he got his job,these people could not find there way out of a wet paper bag if it was open for them
Comment by Robert Williams — November 2, 2009 @ 6:07 am
I am outraged that this adoptive mother of 5 boys and biological mother of 2 girls… How could one mother to another mother be so cruel as to not allow this mother to attend the funeral of her own son.
This is yet another tragedy to a long list of tragedies in the foster/adopt system. My heart felt prayers go out to the mother who has not only lost her kids to the system but yet again through this tragedy.
Comment by lisa — November 2, 2009 @ 8:08 am
My heart goes out to you. You and your family will be in my prayers. This never should have happened. CPS at it’s finest once again. I am soooooo sorry.
Comment by Brenda Alexander — November 2, 2009 @ 8:52 am
Faith,
I have no words to explain how I feel. My prayers are with you. The one thing that stood out to me is all the comments about this being a normal family. No one ever looked at the family did they?
Comment by Char — November 2, 2009 @ 10:57 am
this is sooooooooo sad and my heart goes out to you Faith. Now you must keep the faith in God and know that he knows ALL things and will make matters right. What happened to your sons will not go unpunished and also the foster mother will find out things will not go so well with her either. Sit back and watch how things unfold and keep praying for your sons who are still alive. Your son Justin who is now asleep in death is not suffering so you can be with peace about that. You are suffering but know that you have many many friends and family members that love you and care about you and your boys who are hurt and we will all be saying prayers for you. Miracles do happen. Just last week my cousins daughter who had been in a coma for over two months came out of it. Without her memory but that should come back someday, Miracles happen and we will pray for it to happen for you and your family too! God bless you! Joyce aka: TavisNana
Comment by Joyce Williamson — November 2, 2009 @ 11:46 am
I was in a horrible biological home and it was DSS at the time they put in in a very bad foster home. They did not care and I am still healing from all of the abuse. DSS, CPS, DCF are all corrupt everywhere. I am putting my memoir together to share with people what my abusers do not want anyone to know. People all over the world will be able to hear my voice.
Comment by Wendy Sulewski — November 2, 2009 @ 3:54 pm
Go, Wendy!!!
Comment by LindaJoMartin — November 2, 2009 @ 5:37 pm
faith…….sue them all in their individual capasity judge and all. sue them for your son also as friend of…….”son’s name.”
sue them for the intent to cause harm to your family members sue in his brother’s names also as friend of. abuse of discretion we all know none of them have clean hands as all gov. agencies are nothing more than businesses out to stay in business. gets down to their families against ours. they need our children to feed theirs. no honor or ethics in this country anymore.
to you personally? no words will heal or express what your feeling. we are here and we are hurting for your son our future deeply.
may god find you and the children peace.
for all the children we are here.
for this mother and brothers we weep.
Comment by gale white — November 2, 2009 @ 7:43 pm
I was a foster child and had my child stolen by a system that takes away the parental rights of minors in their care, without cause or reason.
My daughter was adopted, possibly illegally, by brutal and vicious people that hurt her so badly and lied so often ….I just can’t imagine how she survived.
CPS - what a joke -Child Purchasing and Sales maybe…
Comment by Lori — November 3, 2009 @ 10:02 pm
I am sickened to hear of this, The goverment had no right to not let her say good bye to her child, this is why I am not afraid of anyone of the social services since it’s all about the money, now look we have kids hurting each other because you move them, lie about them on paper to get more taxes payers the poor to work hard or ex military familys kids you take because you don’t or didn’t do myself or now my son any good, when will you see what it’s about they’s kids want there real parents, not your made up fake familys, paid to beat them rape them or now even worse children killing because you knew so much. God bless you mother for I am sorry for your pain no mother or father should have to be put threw there b__ll sh– anymore, If you need my help write me at dvdjrdllscwbys[at]yahoo.com I know the truth and got paper work to show how the old retired social workers let my own be beat never no charges samething with my son now hit in the head by a staff member first time didn’t have prove now I do it’s a nice big knot on my childs head nothing done, either so all parents that need my prayers you have it right now, I love you all for being parents somethings are not in are power to change but GOD can and THE DEVIL UR DONE God please bless everyones heart with love from you JEHOVAH GOD your son they need so does this child who’s locked up now and I am sorry for him as well your mother loves you so does your father, But Jehovah God loves you and so does his son, AMEN
Comment by katlynn — November 3, 2009 @ 11:16 pm
This case is being tried in my hometown. This foster/adoptive home had 7 children in it. Two who were the biological children of the foster/adoptive parents. All 7 children have been hurt in this home. 2 children were molested in the home. 1 child went to prison for that molestation. 1 child is dead from murder. 1 child is in jail charged with murdering his adoptive brother. 2 children were stabbed and hospitalized. Count them up, all 7 children in the foster/adoptive home have been hurt.
Please help the children who are in this home. Please write about this case to whom ever you can to get some help for these kids. We are their voice.
Comment by Sue — November 4, 2009 @ 5:23 pm
Faith:
I am so sorry for your loss, words cannot even begin to offer you comfort, for there are no words that can mend a mother’s broken heart…My heart goes out to you and your family in this most difficult time..
If you need to talk email me and I will give you my number, I will put Justin’s story on my blog, I will not allow him to be forgotten…I promise! lawdoll1[at]gmail.com
Comment by Lawdoll — November 5, 2009 @ 12:07 pm
I was a foster parent and was through cps. Which was the worse decision of my life. We had ten kids in three years and the last little boy we had we got at three months old and the mom signed over her rights so we were told we could adopt him so we got super attached and one day before the caseworker turned the case over to an adoptive worker they showed up at our house and took him for no reason. They couldn’t even give us one when we asked. He was twenty one months at that time and only knew us and had been with us for eighteen months. They took him to a foster home here in town and left him there for a month than moved him six hours away with an adoptive family. Up until I read some of these stories on this sight I just couldn’t make any sense of it. Here in our town the foster parents are wonderful people. You never here stories like the ones I have been reading on this site. The problem we do have here is that cps gets away with anything they want. Everyone fosters for the money so if they threaten to remove kids or close down homes people will do whatever they say because they are to poor not too. Even if they do take the kids or close their homes they can’t afford to fight them. We didn’t foster for the money we did it because my husband and I can’t have any more children and we love little kids. My son is now sixteen and my husbands kids are eighteen and twenty one. We started fostering because we thought we were doing a good thing and it benefitted us too by having our baby fever taken care of! I never knew all the bad that it causes and creates by being foster parents. All I know is how wronged we were. William will be traumatized for life and I’m pretty sure this whole I have in my heart won’t ever heal either. We got an attourney imediately but it took seven months to get a court date because of all the continuances that cps filed. By the time we went to court our attourney bill was at five thousand dollars and that was the temporary. Our final court date is set for december seventh but because of the length of time he was in the new adoptive home the judge had said at the temporary that he thought it would be better if he left him there and did not further traumatize him. So I don’t know if we should even go to the final. They made up all kinds of lies about us in court and even though the stuff they were saying was not in our file and we were not written up about all the awful stuff they said and he wasn’t removed before eighteen months I guess the jud ge bought it. We just don’t know what to do we need all the help we can get so any advice or sugestions we would sure apreciate. One other really wild thing that happened is the new adoptive parents had changed our foster sons name. Someone please help! thanks! I don’t think anyone could love him as much as us. I used to cry when he would get sick because I felt sorry for him. CPS knew that one year before they took william I lost my twenty seven year old brother. He was my only sibling and his case was also abuse of power by the police though. He was murdered and nothing is happening with that either. When he died I was so upset I stopped working and just stayed home with William so I just got that much more atatched to him. So when they took him it was like reliving that all over again. Plus I had to deal with losing him. We always loved him like he was ours and spoiled him rotten.
Comment by bridget legnon — November 16, 2009 @ 9:44 pm
I just want everyone to know that I have been mistreated in DFCS for a very long time. I have just aged out of care and I have never seen as much corruption as I have in DFCS. My name is Jade Richards and I am willing to go against DFCS and tell them all that has happened to me
Comment by Jade Richards — December 3, 2009 @ 7:26 am
All of these letters are a testimony to the government abuse of the American family. The young boy who was murdered would probably be alive today if resources had been used to keep the family together rather than to tear it apart. Americans bury their heads in the sand and don’t recognize the role of our governement until it happens to them. By then its too late. Our government is tearing the fabric of our nation apart. the family. Its a Holocaust and its happening now in all the countries of the world.
Comment by Gina — January 19, 2010 @ 11:39 am
Midland County prosecutor offers plea deal to teenage suspect in slaying
By LaNia Coleman | The Bay City Times
February 09, 2010, 8:13PM
MIDLAND — A Midland County teen accused of killing his brother and wounding three other family members is expected to tell a Circuit Court judge whether he will accept a plea deal Wednesday.
Prosecutor Michael D. Carpenter confirmed that he has made Steven J. Pribbernow Jr. an offer, but he declined to reveal any details.
Pribbernow is scheduled to be in Judge Jonathan E. Lauderbach’s courtroom at 4 p.m.. If he does not accept Carpenter’s offer, the 15-year-old will go to trial starting Tuesday.
Pribbernow is charged, as an adult, with an open count of murder in the death of Justin S. Pribbernow, 17, and three counts of assault with intent to murder his siblings Kevin D. Pribbernow, 15, and Kody C. Pribbernow, 13, and his stepfather Joshua M. Saylor, 32.
The charges stem from an Aug. 3 incident in which Pribbernow allegedly attacked his family with a knife at their Geneva Township home
Comment by faith baden — February 9, 2010 @ 7:22 pm
News.Murder suspect to be sentenced in April
Published: Saturday, February 20, 2010 3:37 PM EST
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By SUSAN FIELD
Clare Managing Editor
A Coleman teen accused of murdering his adoptive brother and injuring three other family members will be sentenced in April in Midland County Circuit Court.
Steven Pribbernow Jr., 15, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of second-degree murder and three counts of assault with intent to commit murder, Midland County Prosecutor Michael Carpenter said.
Pribbernow, who stabbed to death 17-year-old Justin Pribbernow Aug. 4 at his family’s home at 5180 McNally Road in Geneva Township, is set to be sentenced in Chief Circuit Judge Jonathan E. Lauderbach’s Midland courtroom at 1 p.m. April 8, according to court records.
All of the charges against Pribbernow, who was charged as an adult because of the seriousness of the crimes, carry potential life sentences.
Pribbernow was charged with three counts of assault with intent to murder in connection with the stabbing of his stepfather, Joshua Saylor, and Saylor and Jessica Pribbernow’s children, Kody, 13, and Kevin, 15.
Jessica Pribbernow and Saylor lived in the home with their mix of biological and adopted children.
Pribbernow, who is being held in the Midland County Jail without bond, will serve time in a state prison that houses younger offenders, Carpenter said.
The murder and assaults shocked the quiet, rural Coleman community, where Jessica Pribbernow was known by friends to be an idealist who wanted to make a better life for the children she adopted.
She had adopted the children of an extremely troubled family, and court documents indicate that her wanting to give the children a better life was a tough assignment.
The parental rights of that family, all boys, were terminated in Arenac County Circuit Court in 2003 for a number of reasons, according to court documents.
Once Jessica Pribbernow adopted the boys, she tried to change their lives, according to a family friend.
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