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By Ryan T. McGuire In 2020, Paul Petersen pled guilty to running an illegal adoption ring. Petersen was the former Maricopa County Assessor and an attorney in Mesa, Arizona. He arranged for pregnant women from the Republic of the Marshall Islands to travel to the United States, paid them a $10,000 stipend plus postpartum payments, and charged adoptive families a
by Ryan T. McGuire When Arizona accuses a person of child abuse, that person faces more than potential criminal charges and juvenile court proceedings; they also risk placement on the “central registry.” The central registry is a semi-confidential list of individuals against whom the Department of Child Safety (“DCS”) has substantiated findings of child abuse or neglect. Although the general
By Ryan T. McGuire In 2020, Paul Petersen pled guilty to running an illegal adoption ring. Petersen was the former Maricopa County Assessor and an attorney in Mesa, Arizona. He arranged for pregnant women from the Republic of the Marshall Islands to travel to the United States, paid them a $10,000 stipend plus postpartum payments, and charged adoptive families a
by Ryan T. McGuire When Arizona accuses a person of child abuse, that person faces more than potential criminal charges and juvenile court proceedings; they also risk placement on the “central registry.” The central registry is a semi-confidential list of individuals against whom the Department of Child Safety (“DCS”) has substantiated findings of child abuse or neglect. Although the general
This piece was originally published in Maricopa Lawyer. [1] By Ryan T. McGuire and Markus Risinger On the 6th floor of the Maricopa County Old Courthouse, a museum display panel bears a striking inscription: “The Magna Carta for Juveniles.” Those were Justice Earl Warren’s words upon the release of Justice Abe Fortas’s majority opinion in the landmark decision In re