When I opened to the front page of my local newspaper the other day, the headlines screamed at me: BOY DIES AFTER SEVERE BEATING!
Subsequent days follow with more headlines: OFFICIALS WERE WARNED, CPS IS INVESTIGATED, and finally, on the front page of the Local & State section, a lesser headline: IF OUTRAGE FADES AGAIN, KIDS WILL KEEP DYING.
All of this is a reminder of the familiar patterns of my life, back when I was a social worker with Child Welfare Services in this Central Valley city…
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Posted on April 26, 2009 at 3:36pm —
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