41.   Despite the cost, orphanages -- or small, therapeutic group homes -- are vital for the growing number of abused and neglected children whose parents are beyond repair.

42.   DSS Commissioner Linda Carlisle said she had no figures as to whether children already have been removed from group homes before their projected release dates.

43.   Eighty-eight percent of those children are placed in foster or group homes after spending one night at the emergency center.

44.   Espinoza was killed at a Dobson Ranch group home Monday after he threatened others with a knife and then lunged at police officers.

45.   Foster homes and group homes cannot be locked, according to federal law.

46.   For the last few months, Raymond had lived in the group home in Jamaica, Queens.

47.   For two years she alternated between a foster home and a group home where she was integrated with truants and drug addicts.

48.   Four years ago, a caretaker from another Community Living Opportunities group home in Johnson County disappeared on a Friday with three developmentally disabled women.

49.   From jail, he called Hope House, a group home for recovering alcoholics and drug addicts.

50.   Gregory ran away from a city-run group home on Leggett Avenue in the Bronx on Monday morning.