By Jill Burke | Posted: Thu 9:30 PM, May 02, 2019 | Updated: Fri 7:10 AM, May 03, 2019 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) — As many as 3,000 children are in foster care in Alaska on any given day, spread across some 1,300 licensed foster homes, according to Alaska’s Office of Children’s Services. The workload for front […]
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Author: Michelle Theriault Boots Updated: October 25, 2017 Published October 24, 2017 Adoptive mother Anya James, center, listens to testimony during her sentencing at the Nesbett Courthouse on Tuesday. (Bill Roth / Alaska Dispatch News) The adopted children of an Anchorage woman accused of abusing them for years in a Hillside home finally confronted her
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Sam Friedman, [email protected] Jul 27, 2017 FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks city government must pay more than half the bill for cleaning up toxic dry cleaning chemicals at the Shoppers Forum Mall, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason issued the order Tuesday in the dispute between the city and Shoppers Forum owner
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Sam Friedman, [email protected] May 23, 2017 FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks child sex abuse victim will have another chance to sue Alaska’s foster care system due to an Alaska Supreme Court opinion published Friday. In 2012, a woman who was sexually abused by foster brother Rolin N. Allison Jr., sued the state in a civil case. She claimed
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Weston Morrow [email protected] Dec 2, 2014, Updated at 11:55 p.m. Tuesday FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District will pay $920,000 to the family of a student who allegedly was raped by a tutor at Hutchison High School last school year. Hutchison tutor Claude Fowlkes III was arrested in March on allegations of sexual
By Weston Morrow / [email protected] May 7, 2014 FAIRBANKS—The family of a student who was allegedly sexually abused by a tutor at Hutchison High School is pursuing a claim against the district. The family claims the district may have ignored warning signs during the course of its employment of the tutor, Claude Fowlkes. Fowlkes was
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Michelle Theriault Boots – September 6, 2015 “Zemira James was a bone-thin 15-year-old when she was rescued from the home of the woman who had adopted her from Alaska’s foster care system. That was back in October 2010. When Anya James was arrested seven months later, in May 2011, the case made headlines. Prosecutors alleged the Anchorage woman forced
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“The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District will pay $920,000 to the family of a student who allegedly was raped by a tutor at Hutchison High School last school year. Hutchison tutor Claude Fowlkes III was arrested in March on allegations of sexual abuse of a minor, which allegedly took place during several months last
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“State caseworkers didn’t see the honey bucket in the little boy’s room or the lock on the outside of his bedroom door. When workers gave Patrick and Sherry Kelley a fifth child for adoption in July 2000, they never looked back. A worried aunt flew up from Florida when that little boy was 7, went
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“The state of Alaska was supposed to protect the sisters from a mother who drank and did drugs, and from the increasing violence between her and their stepfather. But, a Kenai jury recently found, the state put them in places even worse. They suffered years of mistreatment, including sexual abuse in foster care, and the
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