Putting a check on deaths of foster kids

200?!

This article popped into my inbox today. Readers, this is representative of just ONE county in the United States. Around two hundred children who come into contact with the foster care system are estimated to die each year in L.A. County. Surely I am not the only person who believes children are being horribly and tragically failed.

Read more here and express your outrage: Putting a Check on Deaths of Foster Kids
[Los Angeles Times 4/4/11]

Update: “The report, prepared by the county’s chief executive officer at the urging of Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Michael Antonovich, showed a total of 175 children with “DCFS history” died in 2010.
The DCFS, coroner or law enforcement agencies determined that 28 of those deaths had been caused by abuse or neglect. Another 13 were “reasonably suspected” as such. ” The rest were due to accidents, illnesses, suicides and “third-party homicides”, aka gang shootings.

County officials release results of report on children’s deaths
[Contra Costa Times 4/1/11 by Christina Villacorte]

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