System Failure

A DCFS worker trying to take a child into protective custody is beaten into a coma by the child's father and dies four months later. Some of the root causes of bad outcomes for DCF...

What does it take to remove a child from the home? And why weren't AJ Freund or Sema'j Crosby? Our first episode on what happened and why....

The deaths of two young children in recent years bear some similarities. Parents of both AJ Freund and Sema’j Crosby had been contacted repeatedly by child-welfare workers. Both ha...