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Children adopted by Sylvia Jovanna Vasquez

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2006 Jan 5

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California state adoption agency
Three children, a 13-year-old boy, a 9-year-old and a 6-year-old girl, adopted by Sylvia Jovanna Vasquez were being locked up in cages and were found to be malnourished and and were wearing clothes soiled with urine and feces. A 12-year-old girl, also adopted, was being injected with a puberty-blocking drug, Lupron.

In 1982 Sylvia Jovanna Vasquez had kidnapped a girl from Mexico and using Child Protective Services stationary she removed three children from a Mexican orphanage in 1986. In 1990 she applied for a foster care permit, which was refused, because of her previous conduct. Despite being aware of this past Judy Taege of California state adoption agency allowed Vasquez to adopt four children.

Documents

Title Publication date
Woman who locked kids in cages asks judge to end probation 2013 Mar 5
Slain DA Investigator Remembered as Upstanding, Hardworking 2008 May 4
Vasquez Released From Jail 2007 Aug 29
Systematic Child Maltreatment: Connections with Unconventional Parent and Professional Education 2007 Jul 1
Fighting the Hand That Bleeds You 2007 Jun 7
Ethical Misbehavior 2007 May 17
Judge Brings Hammer Down in ‘Caged Kids’ Case 2007 May 11
Lawyers Rest in Child "Cage" Case; Sentencing Next Week 2007 May 5
Kids in Cages Trial Comes to Blistering Finale 2007 May 4
‘Caged Kids’ Case Nears End, Vasquez’s Fate in Judge’s Hands 2007 May 3
Prosecution Proceeds in “Kids in Cages” Case 2007 Apr 27
Vasquez Trial Testimony Details Squalid Living Conditions 2007 Apr 26
Vasquez to Court: I Meant to Protect My Adopted Kids 2007 Apr 21
LAW AND DISORDER 2007 Jan 18
SB woman pleads no contest to abusing her four adopted kids 2007 Jan 12
LAW AND DISORDER 2006 Sep 21
News briefs from California's Central Coast 2006 Sep 18
JUDGE BOUNCED IN VASQUEZ CASE 2006 Jun 15
News briefs from California's Central Coast 2006 Jun 12
News briefs from California's Central Coast 2006 Jun 7
Court says Santa Barbara judge who edited prosecutor's book OK 2006 May 10
Vasquez Pretrial 2006 Apr 20
Santa Barbara child abuse defendant released on $1 million bail 2006 Mar 4
Back In County 2006 Mar 2
Custody Battle 2006 Feb 20
News briefs from California's Central Coast 2006 Jan 12
California woman arrested for allegedly caging kids 2006 Jan 11
Woman Allegedly Confines 3 Adopted Kids 2006 Jan 11
Daycare mom 'caged kids' 2006 Jan 11
Mother Caged Children, Police Say 2006 Jan 11