“ Children who are murdered by caregivers get lost” in the Child Fatality Review Committee’s process, said Stephanie McClellan, deputy director of the DC KinCare Alliance, a nonprofit organization created to support relatives who care for children outside of the traditional foster care system. “There is no way to tell how many children die each year in DC … because there is no current reporting of that information.”
The four-part series by veteran DC journalist and SpotlightDC awardee Jonetta Rose Barras paints the picture of a system that fails to protect the most vulnerable: infants and children subject to disregard and violence. It’s also the manifestation of our mission to put funds directly in the hands of journalists working on consequential, under-reported stories in the DMV – published by one of our media partners, in this case DCLine. |
