Jane Herms prefers to go unnoticed while leading a Northern Kentucky nonprofit seeking to end the cycle of child abuse. So the Family Nurturing Center President and CEO was stunned when she was recently named Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky Horizon Nonprofit Awards 2023 Executive of the Year. “It was a shock….I didn’t know that I […]
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Op-ed: April is Child Abuse Prevention Month: Honor child protective service works
Written by Dr. Jay Miller, Dorothy A. Miller Research professor in Social Work Education and director of the self-care lab in the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky. April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. It is during this time that families and communities recognize the importance of working together to prevent child abuse […]
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Renewed Call For Child Abuse Offender Registry Aired Before Committee
Jennifer and Octavio Diaz plead their case in front of Judge Fred Stine. FTM file. Jennifer Diaz was at work the day before Thanksgiving 2014 when she got a call that something was wrong with her little girl. The young mother rushed home to find her four-month-old daughter, Sophie, with injuries to her head and […]
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Representative Dennis Keene Appointed to Child Abuse Task Force
The Diaz’ helped pushed for Sophie’s Law. Their babysitter was found guilty by way of Alford plea, of child abuse in February 2016. FTM file. On the heels of filing “Sophie’s Law” to provide an online registry of child abusers, Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo announced that he has appointed Representative Dennis Keene to the […]
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Newport Woman Sentenced in Child Abuse Case
Jennifer and Octavio Diaz plead their case in front of Judge Fred Stine. FTM file. By Clayton Castle After 434 days since the first reporting of child abuse, Desiree Rankin was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Fred Stine to three months in county jail for abusing two children she babysat for in 2014. The sentencing […]
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Newport Woman Pleads Guilty to Criminal Abuse of Two Infants
Sophie’s ear lacerations from the alleged abuse. Provided. For Northern Kentucky residents, Jennifer Diaz and Asha Galvez and their families, their year-long nightmare is close to coming to an end. That’s because on Wednesday December 9, their former babysitter, Desiree Rankin, of Newport, pled guilty to two counts of criminal abuse in the first degree […]