DAY 1: Forty children have died in the District in cases where government agencies and workers failed to take preventive actions or placed the children in unsafe homes and institutions.
DAY 2: The story of NickiColma Spriggs, who died at 15 with extreme curvature of the spine in a Delaware nursing home, spotlights the District’s failure to monitor severely disabled wards.
DAY 3: Eleven babies died after social workers have sent infants born with serious medical problems to homes where parents were drug abusers, mentally ill or otherwise unfit.
DAY 4: When social workers and police do not investigate properly, children face the risks: One, 8-year-old Sylvester Brown, was slain by his mentally ill mother despite four separate calls for help.
D.C. Court Faulted on Child Care Reforms Federal lawmakers Thursday accused District judges of being more concerned with their own comfort and careers than the safety of children as they debated legislation designed to change the way D.C. Superior Court handles child abuse and neglect cases.
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