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Then-gubernatorial candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham, May 28, 2018
It’s a tragic and familiar story that writes itself in New Mexico every few years, regardless of the administration – each time serving as a call for change in how New Mexico protects, or doesn’t, its vulnerable children. ...................... In this case, allegations in a lawsuit filed over the brutal beating death of a 4-year-old Albuquerque boy who was left in his mother’s care by the state’s Children, Youth and Families Department (despite repeated abuse and neglect referrals) detail a monumental failure of protection and oversight. James Dunklee Cruz The short and tragic life of James Dunklee Cruz ended on Dec. 10, 2019. He died minutes after arriving at University of New Mexico Hospital with multiple injuries to his head and chest. His mother had left him with a friend, Zerrick Marquez, who is jailed on a no-hold bond pending trial on a charge of felony first-degree child ....
Lawsuit: Agency s failure led to New Mexico boy s death COLLEEN HEILD , Albuquerque Journal FacebookTwitterEmail ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) At age 17, Krista Cruz was still in foster care when her second son, James Dunklee Cruz, was born. The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department knew Krista well she had been a ward of the state for seven years after experiencing physical abuse, neglect, excessive discipline and educational neglect at home. Yet over the next four years, her young son James lived in danger, himself a victim of abuse and neglect before he was beaten to death in late 2019, allegedly by one of his mother’s male friends, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed Tuesday by a personal representative for the boy’s estate. ....