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Ingrid Todd meets a milestone
anniversary with characteristic
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June 1, 2023
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When should social workers separate families?

By STEVE LeBLANC
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — When child welfare workers and police
knocked on Sarah Perkins’ and Joshua Sabey’s front door
well past midnight one weekend last summer, the parents
were shocked to learn the state of Massachusetts had
come to take their two young sons.
It’s the kind of harrowing scene that plays out daily across
the country as social workers motivated by a desire to
protect children run up against confused and concerned
parents.
What followed was emotional anguish, a bureaucratic
battle, vindication for the parents and a lawsuit filed ear-
lier this month by a legal advocacy group. The couple
hopes for a favorable ruling that will increase oversight of
child removals nationwide.
The children were taken in Massachusetts because of a
child abuse report stemming from a hospital visit. On July
13, 2022, Perkins whisked their 3-month-old son Cal to an
emergency room. He had a 103-degree fever. Dr. Yvonne Chase, as associate professor in the Department of Human Services at the University of
Alaska Anchorage, is shown at her office Friday, May 19, 2023, in Anchorage, Alaska.
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