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“I was holding him, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, oh my God, what did I just do?’ ” Berry told police in recorded confession.
William is one of at least 110 children 17 and younger whose deaths were linked to abuse and neglect between 2009 and 2013 in Massachusetts, a third of whom had at some point been under the watch of the state Department of Children and Families. Many others were likely known to the state but never subject to DCF supervision. The rest died without ever having a chance at state protection.
Records obtained by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting show that the vast majority of the dead were under the age of three, beaten, drowned, smothered or otherwise abused or neglected by caretakers. And their numbers have steadily increased, records show, from 14 reported abuse and neglect deaths in 2009 to 38 in 2013 – and state officials say numbers will likely remain elevated when the 2014 death toll is made public.
The interest of a child, again, fatally bungled
Updated April 7, 2021, 2:30 a.m.
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Case offers window into multiple systemic problems at DCF
The Office of the Child Advocateâs report on the Department of Children and Familiesâ role in 14-year-old David Almondâs life and death is a tragic window into flawed decision-making and lack of transparency in the agency (âDCF, others failed abused boy, report says,â Page A1, April 1). The agencyâs internal foster-care review process, staffed by DCF employees, reviewed the case two times after David and his brother Michael were returned to a troubled home. A truly independent foster-care review process outside of DCF is critically needed, though, shockingly, not called for by the report of the Office of the Child Advocate.