Arizona Foster Care Issue Essay

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About five years ago, I saw a news story about a four year old girl that was killed in the Arizona Foster Care System, and my life has never been the same. This beautiful child lost her life after a daycare worker tried to keep her from waking the other children by placing her hand over the girl’s mouth. The news said that the daycare worker would not be charged for the murder of the girl, because it was an accident. The woman never intended to kill the child when she suffocated her on the first day that she attended the state run daycare, so it had to be an accident?

The child’s Foster parent (a single male with no blood relation) commented that the girl had no one who loved her, and that she was all alone in the world. He said that her
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I made my way into several non profits by doing anything that was needed to help them. After countless hours of child abuse research, awareness efforts, volunteer projects, and legislative initiatives, I realized that the numbers had actually increased by 40% on the number of children in the Arizona Foster Care System! My heart was aching for these little ones, and I was desperate to help in any way that I …show more content…
The Co-Founder of the nonprofit wanted me to come and meet a girl that the police had brought to them after she was rescued from a motel in Scottsdale. The police received an anonymous tip that the girl was being sex trafficked. By this time, I had already forgot all about my prayer, but I heard a little voice whisper, “She is alive, because of your prayer”. I had never heard that little voice before, but there was no mistaking what I heard, and I immediately asked when they found the girl. The woman tried to tell me it was on a Saturday night, but my prayer was on a Friday night, and I told the woman that she was wrong, and that the girl was rescued on Friday night. The woman didn’t understand why I was being so insistent on the day, but she agreed to call the police and get the exact time and day, so that I would stop hounding her about