Volume 6, Issue 78
December 24, 2008
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Top Ten Child Protection Stories of 2008 #1 Caylee Anthony
Caylee Anthony is not only the biggest story we covered this year, it's one of the biggest stories of any kind. The names Casey and Caylee Anthony are among the top Internet search terms in 2008. Tampa ABC action news story here The website Yahoo! says the names of the Orlando mother and her missing daughter rank number two in terms of the most frequently typed search engine terms. The word 'hurricanes' is ranked at number one.
Missing girl, mother, Casey Anthony, person of interest vol6_iss49#2 Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) Texas Ranch Raids 
Texas Child Protective Services take over 400 children from the sect's Texas Ranch following a call from a woman posing as a molested teen at the complex.
Texas Child Protective Services takes custody of 401 children from Yearning for Zion Ranch vol6_iss27#3: Destination Nebraska: Safe Haven Law with no age limits 
Nebraska becomes the last state in the Union to adopt a "safe haven" law, but doesn't include an age limit. After more than 35 children are dropped off, many in their teens and some from as far away as Georgia, they are forced to amend the law.
New safe haven law passed with no age limit vol6_iss54#4 Josef Fritzl's Austrian House of Horrors 
Josef Fritzl locks his daughter up in the basement as a sex slave for 24 years and has seven children with her.
Cellar prison discovered vol6_iss33#5 Ongoing Clergy Abuse and Papal Apology 
As the ongoing clergy abuse scandal leads to more charges, lawsuits, settlements and bankruptcies, the Pope apologizes to victim and other denominations face their own clergy abuse problems.
SNAP sues Green Bay Diocese for protecting of accused priest vol6_iss1#6 Caught with their pants down 
2008 was year chock full of celebrities, law enforcement officers and others who should have known better, caught with child pornography, and underage girl or in other compromising positions. It was also a year when child pornography on the web led to the capture of pedophiles.
Florida DCF official vol6_iss10#7 DNA clears Ramseys in JonBenet's Death 
It's been 12 years since JonBenet Ramsey's death, and the investigation has always centered on her family. But this summer DNA evidence from her clothing cleared her family and the Boulder, Colorado DA officially cleared them of any involvement in her death, and formally apologized.
Boulder DA announces new DNA test evidence clears all family members in the death of JonBenet Ramsey vol6_iss47#8 Attorneys General extract concessions from MySpace & Facebook  49 state Attorneys General, lead by Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal reached agreements with popular social networking site MySpace, and later, rival Facebook, to improve online safety and to create an Online Safety Task Force. MySpace agreement with 49 Attorneys General vol6_iss4#9 Reform School skeletons 
First on the Isle of Jersey in the UK and then in Florida, bodies turn up, literally, amid claims of abuse by former residents.
Jersey:#10 Justice Delayed 
The slow moving American justice system finally renders judgment on some notorious child abuse, abduction and murder cases.
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