7. Hart Family Before Driving Off 100ft Cliff, Hid Dark Home Life From View. Minnesota Child Welfare said it had received six troubling reports of abuse or neglect, two of which it deemed to be founded. 4 of 6 children were still missing, but feared dead. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/us/hart-family-crash.html
13. By the time Eric Dean died at age four, 15 reports of abuse had been filed on his behalf. Only one report was investigated and that one–of a broken arm–found that no abuse had happened. https://mn.gov/mnddc/future/2014/2014-06.htm
15. State foster care licensing workers knew that the foster mother social workers had selected to care for Viola Vanclief was a convicted robber with history of violent outbursts.
On 3/4/10, Barker beat Viola to death. A jury convicted her of murder. https://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-me-c1-viola-grave-20141013-story.html?_amp=true#click=https://t.co/QkQMoFBu8Y
17. A mother was free to stamp her toddler daughter Ayeeshia Smith to death after a litany of blunders by doctors and social services who failed to spot months of abuse. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/08/mother-stamped-toddler-to-death-after-authorities-failed-to-spot/
18. Despite the red flags — two broken arms, recurring bruises, a missing tooth — April Hall couldn’t persuade state Child and Family Services caseworkers to take October Perez away from her home https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/grandmother-crusades-for-state-s-abused-kids-after-girl-s/article_b2b64487-3bb6-5b57-a6f0-1e0293914a42.amp.html#click=https://t.co/VR0XgGciNc
20. A social services department is facing mounting criticism tonight for failing to stop a mother starving her seven-year-old daughter Khyra Ishaq to death despite numerous warnings https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/25/khyra-ishaq-starve-social-services#maincontent
21. Abdifatah Mohamud, ten, called 911 several times to report abuse at the hands of his stepfather. Abdifatah was beat to death with rolling pin after he fell behind on HOMEWORK. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2219979/Ali-Mohamed-Mohamud-guilty-beating-stepson-death-rolling-pin.html
22. Although county workers had visited Jorge Tarin in disheveled homes since his infancy — noting drugs, violence and neglect in the households — the complete history was not available to the officials who interviewed him that day. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-child-death-20100725,0,939247.story
23. 4 year old Leiliana Wright spent her final hours beaten and bound in a dark closet. Months before Leiliana was killed, the child's grandmother had sent pictures of bruising on the girl's face to CPS.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2018/10/10/grand-prairie-4-year-old-spent-final-day-beaten-and-bound-in-a-closet-her-mother-testifies-at-boyfriend-s-murder-trial/
25. Mattisyn Blaz, a 2-month-old who died when her father spiked her "like a football," was visited by a child protective services worker the day after the attack.

The next official contact is as the day of Mattisyn’s funeral.

https://www.al.com/news/2014/12/report_abused_children_die_as.html
26. 10 week old Ethan Henderson died a few days after his father got frustrated and violently threw him into a chair.

Child Protective services had been alerted but deemed the boy was safe. No state workers were disciplined.

http://www.pressherald.com/2014/09/04/no-state-child-welfare-workers-disciplined-in-arundel-babys-death/
27. Armani Hill, 4, died after a beating so severe she could no longer walk. Even though 2 reports of suspected abuse were made, a day after the case was closed, one of the girls one would be dead and the other in critical condition.
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2019/06/11/child-abuse-fatal-beating-armani-hill-social-worker-visits-ms-investigated-reports-before-death/1407675001/
28. A child-protection worker was indicted for tampering with public records in 3 year old Alayna Adair’s case. Alayna died from brain trauma, and her father, Charles Timothy Morris, was charged with murder.

https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article44409888.html
29. Marissa Kennedy died as a result of repeated abuse in her home after many reports of violence & multiple contacts with police.

Maine Department of Health and Human Services released details of more than 2 years of interactions with the family.
https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/crime/dhhs-outlines-history-details-of-marissa-kennedy-case/97-df73b2cf-f172-480f-8a9d-b8041d173c13
30. Child-protection workers meant to rescue Ethan Hauschultz from neglect. But they placed him with a known child-abuser. The man's record, a 2009 case involving violence and children didn’t matter.
https://www.htrnews.com/in-depth/news/2019/11/18/manitowoc-boy-7-killed-after-being-placed-known-child-abuser/4159106002/
31. Prior to Victoria Climbié’s death, police, social services department of 4 local authorities, National Health Service, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, & local churches all had contact with her, annoted the signs of abuse.
…https://abusedandneglectedchildren.blogspot.com/2008/05/victoria-climbie.html?m=1
32. For five days, jurors heard how the state’s child protection system had repeatedly failed Gizzell Ford, an 8-year-old girl found strangled, starved and brutally beaten. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-gizzell-ford-civil-trial-20171213-story.html
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