06/15/2010
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"Every State has a child welfare agency. In Missouri, it is the Missouri Department of Social Services, the Children's Division."
"If we have the ability to hold them in custody, we certainly have the ability to get them to court."
"If a child was removed from their family and 6 months later it was determined that no one was paying attention to where that child was, literally no one, it would be a huge scandal in my State."
"You are catching these children, and then you are releasing them. Everyone goes like this, 'Not my problem.'"