HEADS ROLL IN TEXAS CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOLLOWING DEATH OF TODDLER

HEADS ROLL IN TEXAS CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOLLOWING DEATH OF TODDLER

In Austin, the capital of Texas, three Child Protective Services employees have been fired and another has resigned in the wake of the death of toddler Colton Turner who was apparently killed by his mother, Meagan Work and her boyfriend, Michael Turner. The two had a long history of abusing the child and numerous complaints by various people were in the hands of CPS caseworkers, but nothing was done to protect the boy. Here’s the latest article by Robert T. Garrett of the Dallas Morning News (Dallas Morning News, 10/2/14). Garrett looks to me to be the best journalist in Texas writing about the follies and foibles of the state’s CPS. He not only gets his facts right, but has the knowledge of the agency to provide the type of background without which individual tragedies like Colton’s make little sense to average readers. Kudos to Garrett.