Sunday, January 17, 2010

How a foster care tragedy led to reform

How a foster care tragedy led to reform

The unspeakable tragedy of Rilya Wilson spurred the state's child welfare agency to get its act together.

Florida child welfare administrators had seen children in their care get raped, tortured, strangled, starved. They had seen one plunged head-first into a toilet as punishment for a potty-training accident.

But never before Rilya Wilson had a foster child simply vanished.

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