Paul Flahive

2 weeks ago | tpr.org | Paul Flahive

Lee esta historia en inglés. Esta historia es parte de Cuando el Hogar es el Peligro, una serie de varias partes sobre cómo Texas está dejando a niños en hogares y familias peligrosas sin apoyo ni seguimiento continuo. El 12 de junio de 2016, Leanne Fuentes, de tres meses, fue encontrada muerta después de dormir con su madre, quien luego dio positivo por cocaína. Los Servicios de Protección Infantil estaban investigando a su madre por tercera vez cuando murió la niña de Houston.

2 weeks ago | keranews.org | Paul Flahive

This story is part of When Home is the Danger, a multi-part series on how Texas is leaving children in dangerous homes and families without ongoing support or monitoring. On June 12, 2016, three-month old Leanne Fuentes was found dead after co-sleeping with her mother who later tested positive for cocaine. Child Protective Services was investigating her mother for the third time when the Houston girl died.

2 weeks ago | texasstandard.org | Paul Flahive

From Texas Public Radio:This story is part of “When Home is the Danger,” a multi-part series on how Texas is leaving families without ongoing support or monitoring and children in dangerous homes. Texas released another in a series of reports charting a precipitous decline in child fatalities from abuse and neglect in March. The Child Maltreatment Annual Fatality Report showed a 60% decline in tragic deaths in less than five years.

3 weeks ago | texasstandard.org | Paul Flahive |Gideon Rogers

From Texas Public Radio:This story is part of “When Home is the Danger,” a multi-part series on how Texas is leaving families without ongoing support or monitoring and children in dangerous homes. Until the end of October, Susie Wilson drove every few weeks the 90 minutes south from Abilene to a tiny speck of a place called Trickham — a ghost of a town with a population last registered as 12. “This is the first time I have made the trip by myself.

3 weeks ago | tpr.org | Paul Flahive

More than 1,200 Texas children died from abuse and neglect between fiscal 2018 and 2023. TPR launched the project "When Home is the Danger" to catalog how they died and what role the state played in trying to prevent the deaths. Child abuse and neglect deaths often go unreported, and the role of the Department of Family and Protective Services is rarely mentioned to the public.