The interest of a child, again, fatally bungled Updated April 7, 2021, 2:30 a.m. Email to a Friend Case offers window into multiple systemic problems at DCF The Office of the Child Advocateâs report on the Department of Children and Familiesâ role in 14-year-old David Almondâs life and death is a tragic window into flawed decision-making and lack of transparency in the agency (âDCF, others failed abused boy, report says,â Page A1, April 1). The agencyâs internal foster-care review process, staffed by DCF employees, reviewed the case two times after David and his brother Michael were returned to a troubled home. A truly independent foster-care review process outside of DCF is critically needed, though, shockingly, not called for by the report of the Office of the Child Advocate.