By Robert Franklin, Esq.
Nine years ago, Craig and Wendy Humphries’ teen-aged daughter was going through a rebellious stage and decided to show her parents a thing or two. So she reported them to child abuse authorities. Her parents were duly arrested and their children placed in foster care. Slowly, they were able to get out of jail and prove themselves innocent of the charges against them. Indeed, more than one state court has ruled them to be “factually innocent” of the abuse charges. But their names remain on the Child Abuse Central Index along with 800,000 others. Why? Well, it seems that the state legislature, in its zeal to punish child abusers, neglected to consider the possibility of innocence, so it failed to provide a process for removing the names of those who had done nothing amiss.
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