In L.A., Law Enforcement and Child Protection Try the Impossible: Stop Child Maltreatment Deaths [chronicleofsocialchange.org]

Alicia Doktor 3/27/1911:04 AM

On Wednesday, prominent Los Angeles County officials will revisit a trying time in the county’s child protection history.

In May of 2013, the violent death of an 8-year-old Antelope Valley boy rocked the county. The first story that appeared in The Los Angeles Times opened with gruesome details that are still as shocking today as when they were first written.

“When paramedics arrived at his Palmdale home last week, 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez’s skull was cracked, three ribs were broken and his skin was bruised and burned,” wrote then Times reporter Garrett Therolf. “He had BB pellets embedded in his lung and groin. Two teeth were knocked out of his mouth.”

[For more on this story by Daniel Heimpel, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...p-child-deaths/34174]

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