In wake of fifth-grader's suicide, L.A. County supervisors may ask for outside audit of child services

In wake of fifth-grader's suicide, L.A. County supervisors may ask for outside audit of child services

Los Angeles County supervisors took steps Tuesday to hire an independent auditing firm to conduct a sweeping review of the troubled Department of Children and Family Services.

The proposed review, set for a vote at next week’s Board of Supervisors meeting, follows a report Sunday in The Times about the suicide of Montebello fifth-grader Jorge Tarin. The 11-year-old hanged himself in his mother's room June 8, just hours after a social worker was sent to the home to determine whether Jorge's threats of suicide at school that day were serious. The social worker left without him.