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As the parent of a child at Quincy Public Schools and the CEO of QUANADA, an organization that provides services to survivors of domestic and sexual violence, I’m disgusted by the behaviors of PE staff at Denman. As parents, caregivers, and community members, one of our most important responsibilities is to keep children safe from…
Read Full Article Recently our community was made publicly aware of a DCFS investigation which stemmed from some number of teachers at Denman Elementary, including Kimberly Kirby and Jennifer Oitker, physical education teachers, spanking students, allowing students to spank them, putting pieces of tape over students’ mouths as a punishment, and employing threats to do so. The fact…
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SPRINGFIELD – Senate Republican Leader John Curran (R-Downers Grove) and Senate Republican Caucus Whip Jil Tracy (R-Quincy) filed an official resolution calling for an independent audit by the Illinois Auditor General into serious accusations of violence against children under the state’s care at Aunt Martha’s Integrated Care Center in Chicago, as well as what appears to…
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Marc Smith is one of 3 state agency leaders to announce end-of-year departure plans Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Director Marc Smith will resign effective Dec. 31, he told colleagues in an all-staff town hall meeting Wednesday morning. For years, critics had called on Smith to resign or be fired, amid legislative hearings,…
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PLAINVILLE, Ill. — The Adams County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a Plainville man on four counts of possession of child pornography. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services alerted the Sheriff’s Office on Dec. 29 regarding a case of sexual exploitation of a minor. A subsequent investigation led the arrest of Joshua D. Cress,…
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