Analysis faults CPS approach in deaths

Analysis faults CPS approach in deaths

State child-welfare workers were so singularly focused on allegations of neglect and abuse against a Tucson mother that they did only a cursory evaluation of the father before recommending two children be placed in his care, an independent analysis of the case shows.

Less than a year later, Ariana and Tyler Payne, ages 4 and 5, would be dead and their father and his girlfriend charged in the murders.