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Kampala (AFP) - A US couple charged with torturing their 10-year-old foster son was convicted of lesser charges by a Ugandan court on Tuesday and ordered to pay $29,000 in fines and compensation. Nicholas and Mackenzie Spencer were arrested last year and initially charged with "aggravated trafficking" and committing "aggravated torture" against the boy over a two-year period starting in December 2020. They denied committing torture and child trafficking -- which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment -- but pleaded guilty to charges including cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment, wo...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a law that gives Native American families priority in adoptions and foster care placements of tribal children. In a 7-2 vote, the nation's highest court rejected challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) brought by a non-Native American couple seeking to adopt an Indian child and the state of Texas. They had argued that the ICWA, passed by Congress in 1978, was unconstitutional and discriminates on the basis of race. "The issues are complicated," said Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who authored the majority opinion. "But the bottom...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case challenging a decades-old law on Native American adoptions, but which touches on broader questions of Indigenous rights in the United States. Like in Canada, Native American children in the United States were for decades removed from their biological parents and placed in boarding schools or with non-Indigenous families as part of a policy of forced assimilation. Congress in 1978 sought to bring a final end to the practice with the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which set strict standards for removi...
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