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DCYF Director Ashley Deckert sent a letter to the U.S. attorney offering to collaborate.

Students at the Rhode Island Training School are researching the indigent and mentally ill people buried in nameless graves near the school grounds.

Other top reads for the week of April 14: An "alarming" spike in child deaths; and Mark Patinkin's case for moving the South Water Street bike lane.

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“Those things should have never happened,” Charles Montorio-Archer told the Globe in a recent interview. “There is no denying what’s in the report. There’s only, ‘How do we respond to it?’”

Exactly one month after his first day as the interim executive director of St. Mary's Home for Children, Charles A. Montorio-Archer sat down with 12 News to discuss his hopes and plans for the residential psychiatric treatment facility.

There were more than 200 reports of runaways in just two years, according to records obtained by the Globe. “Once we bring the juveniles back, we’re getting called back for the same reasons,” the North Providence police chief said.

State lawmakers and officials who toured St. Mary's Home for Children in North Providence Wednesday reported they were pleased with the progress that's been made since the Rhode Island Office of the Child Advocate released a scathing 119-page report detailing abuse, neglect, and serious safety concerns.

“We want to insure that when we put kids there, they are going to be safe,” said acting state child advocate Katelyn Medeiros.

The House Oversight Committee met Tuesday night to discuss the future of St. Mary's House for Children after a scathing report into private nonprofit organizati