Foster child, 9, mauled to death by dogs in Northern California

Foster child, 9, mauled to death by dogs in Northern California

Just before Thanksgiving, Alexandria Griffin-Heady mused on her Facebook page about how life can take strange turns. Here she was, at 24, she wrote, trying to adopt her 9-year-old brother, who after their mother’s death in 2011 had been bounced through the foster care system.

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