Posted: Feb 17, 2011 12:53 PM
Updated: Feb 17, 2011 2:28 PM
Ashli Sims, News On 6
UNDATED -- The child advocacy group suing Oklahoma's child welfare system in federal court issued a scathing report Thursday.
Children's Rights claims an independent review of nearly 400 cases revealed one in eight children were abused or neglected while in DHS care.
The group which is based in New York joined with local lawyers to sue DHS in federal court three years ago.
The suit started with eight children, but was expanded into a class action last year, representing all Oklahoma children in foster care.
Read the report
This new report, conducted by the Center for Support of Families, is the first glimpse at a broader sample of children in DHS care.
DHS has long claimed that Children's Rights picked eight of the worst examples and the kind of care those children received wasn't typical of all children in foster care.
Children's Right says this new report examined 374 random cases of children who'd been in DHS custody for at least two months.
Here are some of the report's findings: FULL STORY and Video
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