Quote Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
Well, I suppose it's not called the Examiner for nothing.
The story started life as an AP piece. Tribesman's Examiner just picked it up off the wire.

More details,from a local Oregon paper here (sorry for the 'print-friendly' version; if your printer menu pops up, just click: 'cancel').

Oregon Department of Human Services officials said Buoy was not a foster parent for the agency. It's not clear why or under what circumstances the child was placed in Buoy's care. The executive director of Next Door could not be reached.

In the summer of 2004, she took in the 11-year-old boy for three months. She told detectives that she heard the boy had been abandoned as a baby. When she baked him a birthday cake, the boy said no one had ever made him a cake for his birthday.
I wondered about the Foster Home bit - after several scandals a few years back,I thought most state Social Services offices had tightened up on candidate screening & checking. Seems this case was somehow less formal/unofficial - and might need looking into.