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SCV NewsBreak | March 21: Foster Care Child Taken from Home; GO Jazz Big Band Goes to the Movies
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SCV NewsBreak | March 21: Foster Care Child Taken from Home; GO Jazz Big Band Goes to the Movies
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A 6-year-old foster child was taken by the Department of Children and Family Services Monday afternoon after supporters protested the relocation this past weekend. A 21-year-old Newhall man, who was charged with killing his childhood friend, pleaded not guilty in court Monday. The GO Jazz Big Band took jazz lovers on a trip to the movies Saturday. Check it out. Jill Mellady, President of Valencia-based Mellady Direct Marketing, received the Silver Spur Award for Community Service from the College of the Canyons Foundation Saturday night. Plus, weather. Television viewers can catch the SCV NewsBreak on SCVTV at the top of every hour from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., repeating the following morning at 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. SCVTV runs on Time Warner Cable Channel 20 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99, and streaming on SCVTV.com. |
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She will live with a Utah couple who are not Native Americans but are related by marriage to her father. The girl’s sister is living with the couple, and another sister will be living down the street, said Leslie Heimov of the Children’s Law Center of California, Lexi’s court-appointed legal representatives.
“The law is very clear that siblings should be kept together whenever they can be, and they should be placed together even if they were not initially together,” Heimov told the Daily News.
“She has a loving relationship with them,” Heimov said. “They are not strangers in any way, shape or form.”
In a statement, the National Indian Child Welfare Association said the Pages were aware for years that the girl was an American Indian but chose to “drag out litigation as long as possible, creating instability for the child.”
http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2016-03-21/native-american-girl-6-removed-from-california-foster-home