by CASA of Los Angeles | Nov 6, 2013 | Stories
In July 2013, the FBI conducted a national sex-trafficking sting, dubbed “Operation Cross Country,” targeting underage victims of prostitution. The three-day raid rescued more than 100 teens, some as young as 13, including two in Los Angeles. The operation...
by a1l2f3i4a5n | Oct 31, 2013 | Stories
On an otherwise ordinary afternoon in 2011, a woman in a quiet suburb of Los Angeles heard some extraordinary noises coming from outside her home. As she reached her bedroom window and peered over the neighbor’s fence, she glimpsed a horrifying scene....
by CASA of Los Angeles | Aug 7, 2013 | Stories
CASA of Los Angeles volunteers are used to encountering shocking things in their work with abused and neglected children. But when Mariann Fragner took a seat at the back of a courtroom in the L.A. County Dependency Court last fall, she was about to see something she...
by a1l2f3i4a5n | May 3, 2013 | Stories
Trudy Armer has been a Court Appointed Special Advocate for CASA of Los Angeles for 15 years. For the last five, she also has served as a Children’s Court Assistant, providing support to unaccompanied children awaiting their hearings in dependency court. Tucked...
by a1l2f3i4a5n | Mar 29, 2013 | Stories
Sam Herod remembers the day a couple years ago when, as one of the many kind gestures he performs as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), he drove Lisa Slayton to the first day of her sophomore year at a new high school. “They didn’t give her a lot of clothes at...
by CASA of Los Angeles | Mar 8, 2013 | Stories
The stakes are high for all kids in dependency court. But they’re especially high for the youngest children, because what happens in the first months and years of life often determines whether a child will realize his or her potential later in life. Which is why, a...
