McKee picks Ashley Deckert to lead DCYF in RI
Deckert comes to Rhode Island from Illinois, where she most recently worked at an advocacy nonprofit.
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Deckert comes to Rhode Island from Illinois, where she most recently worked at an advocacy nonprofit.
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Trea Jackson, a Palatine resident and former foster kid, brought her ideas for improving the child welfare system to her legislator, resulting in a bill aimed at increasing the support children in custody of the state receive.
Family Photo “Sham investigations” by state child welfare workers emboldened Rica Rountree’s abusers to continue the abuse that led to her death in January 2019, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the child’s estate. The 8-year-old Normal girl died of internal injuries linked to blows to her abdomen, according to an autopsy report that also noted more than 60 scars and marks on her body. The girl’s father, Richard Rountree, was convicted of child endangerment, and his girlfriend, Cynthia Baker, is serving a life sentence for murder. Both are named in the lawsuit that includes...