Social Workers On Trial For Fraud In Girl’s Death

Defense: They couldn’t judge condition since they are not medical doctors

PHILADELPHIA - Four social workers charged with fraud in a case linked to the starvation death of a disabled teenager defended their work as their trial opened Wednesday, saying they were not paid for any medical expertise.

In an unusual criminal case, federal prosecutors are trying to prove the social workers defrauded the city of millions of dollars aimed at helping the neediest families on city welfare rolls.

Danieal Kelly’s family fit that description. Her unfit mother, Andrea Keller, was raising six or seven children alone in a squalid two-bedroom rowhome.

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