A 9-year-old boy died in his room. Here s how Pennsylvania did and did not respond Kim Strong, York Daily Record
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Jarrod Tutko lived just nine years, locked inside his feces-covered bedroom with only one item to comfort him: a stuffed bunny.
“It was a house of horrors,” said Sean McCormack, a Dauphin County assistant district attorney at that time..
Jarrod’s death led to the arrest of both his parents on charges of homicide, and it shined a spotlight on the county’s child welfare agency. Social workers from the Dauphin County Office of Children and Youth had been to the home, seen the boy and talked to his parents in the months and years before he died.