Child welfare workers did not alert the police to 7-year-old Julissia Batties’ black eye. All three children were beaten to death at home in the closing weeks of this summer, Their deaths were among a string of fatalities involving children who were the subject of warnings to child welfare authorities or the police in New York City. “Child welfare is the only agency that is expected to have 100% success stories,” said Anthony Wells, president of the union that represents the agency’s caseworkers. “Child abuse homicides develop over months and years, and it takes advanced investigative skills to pierce those cases,” he said. Two days before Aisyn’s death, 13-month-old Legacy Beauford bled to death of abdominal injuries.

Source: bd News24 October 27, 2021 01:21 UTC