The bottom line and a baby’s death

The bottom line and a baby’s death

Diane Stewart holds up a photo of the boy she loved like a son; the last picture of him she will ever take. It is of 2-year-old Craig Britton lain out in a baby blue casket, the skin around his ears and the soft curve of his cheeks a garish purple and red. Stewart manages to keep her tears at bay, but the rage at those who took the baby out of her care boils behind her quaking composure.

The accusation that she leveled against the private, non-profit foster care agency that took Britton from her in August and moved him into the Lake Shastina home where he would die three weeks later, boils down to greed. In a story published in this paper shortly following the death of baby Britton on August 29, Stewart clearly suggested that the Foster Family Agency (FFA) handling Britton’s case, Environmental Alternatives, had a financial incentive to take the boy from her safe care and place him in the home where he would die.