DSS head: Agency failed to check Middleboro boy for reported cigarette burns

DSS head: Agency failed to check Middleboro boy for reported cigarette burns

No exam was done after the first report on March 4, and the boy remained at home for nearly two more weeks in what authorities say was a severely abusive situation.
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A chilling failure to protect a child

Given the scrutiny they’re under we would expect state social workers to respond like their hair’s on fire when a 7-year-old boy, whose mother had already been suspected of neglect, complains of torture at the hands of her violent ex-con boyfriend.