Houston's Child Protective Services too often fails to protect victims

Houston's Child Protective Services too often fails to protect victims

It's hard to imagine a sadder life history: Halle was born premature, at 27 weeks, to a drug-addicted mother, was fed all her life through a feeding tube, suffered convulsions, tuberculosis, meningitis, a broken arm and a stroke, and died last year, a few weeks before her ninth birthday, weighing just 15 1/2 pounds — the weight of an average 8- or 9-month-old.