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CYFD worker charged with housing CYFD minors for months

He faces felony charges for housing and providing the minors with marijuana and nicotine products. ....

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Fort Sumner man pleads guilty in shooting death

A Fort Sumner man last week pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection with the May 2021 death of 16-year-old Ricardo Gonzales. ....

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'State of chaos': New Mexico's child welfare crisis is worse, monitors say

By Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico New Mexico’s child welfare system has devolved into a “state of chaos,” leaving foster children in dismaying and dangerous conditions, according to a scathing assessment from independent monitors. “The situation is worse than last year, deteriorating, and requires effective immediate action to protect children’s safety,” the monitors wrote in […] ....

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State launches safe sleep practices information to prevent SUID

The state is launching a Safe Sleep New Mexico campaign to share information with new parents and caregivers about safe sleeping practices for newborns to reduce the number of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death. With 43 babies who died in 2021 because of SUID, the syndrome accounted for nearly 20 percent of infant deaths in New […] ....

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Foster children are caught in a cycle of abuse | NM Political Report

By Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico One evening last December, a 14-year-old foster youth sexually assaulted a child four years younger than himself in the Albuquerque office of New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department. It happened, according to police, in a bathroom near the facility’s outdoor playground, as a CYFD supervisor was chatting on […] ....

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