PHILADELPHIA – Two family caseworkers have been suspended after a 2-month-old boy starved to death at a Philadelphia homeless shelter.
Tanya Williams, 32, is charged with murder in last month's death of her son, Quasir Alexander. Police, though, say they are exploring whether criminal charges should be filed against any social-service workers involved with the family.
"Even though there's been an arrest, someone's been charged, we're also internally looking at some of the establishments that were involved in overseeing their case," Homicide Sgt. Tim Cooney told The Associated Press on Monday.
The infant, a twin, weighed less when he died on Dec. 23 than he did at birth, and had nothing in his belly, Cooney said. An autopsy concluded that he died of both starvation and dehydration.
His twin also was malnourished and treated at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for several days after the death, police said.
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7 comments:
can never seem to figure this out, you need a license to cut hair, paint someone;'s nails, etc. But anyone can pump out children and raise them like animals and turn them loose on society. And we all have to pay for this! Maybe some people just shouldn't be allowed to procreate!
Government care coming to you and yours.
Just sickening.
How can anyone starve at a city run shelter where the average stay is 5 months?
Was this woman selling the baby formula for her kids?
But then, how can a 14 year old starve to death there also?
The case calls to mind the 2006 starvation death of another child under the care of city-funded case workers, 14-year-old Danieal Kelly. Case workers who skipped home visits to the disabled girl and contractors who invented phony paperwork after her death are serving long prison stints for defrauding the city, while her mother is serving 20 to 40 years for third-degree murder.
That case prompted the departure of several top city health and human services officials. On Monday, the city's Department of Human Services confirmed that it had opened its own investigation into Quasir's death.
11:13 AM
Maybe some people just shouldn't be allowed to procreate!
It's too late to ban your parents.
11:13, three children raised all respectable productive adults, college educated. just cause your loser children couldn't even learn to say you want fries with that, don't blame me. take a long hard look in the mirror. maybe you don't mind being a parasite living off others hard work, unfortunately for you I wasn't raised to live like that!
people like you are what's wrong with this country!
Outrageous but I want to hear that they are charging the mother as well.How is it entirely the fault of a caseworker?
And another thing,at some point people just need to accept that they should not have children.If you are homeless you do NOT need to have babies!!!!!!!Rubbers are given away free!So are birth control pills!Im guessing since shes 32 she has other kids.Please take them too before she starves them
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