DCF promoted staffer weeks before firing in missing Fitchburg boy case

DCF promoted staffer weeks before firing in missing Fitchburg boy case

The social worker who has been fired by Department of Children and Families officials for failing to make the mandated checks of a now-missing five-year-old Fitchburg boy was promoted just weeks before, officials confirmed today.

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