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A recent report issued by the Virginia Department of Social Services highlights child maltreatment death investigations in the year 2022. Experts say many times those deaths are preventable.
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Prosecutors never alleged that Catherine Seals beat 4-year-old Larkin Carr. But they argued she was partly to blame for his death because she failed to protect him from her teenage son, who'd been abusing the boy for months.
A jury will now decide the case of a man charged in connection to his son's death.
A jury returned the guilty verdict for Hank Smith Jr. after roughly four and a half hours of deliberation Friday.
The last person to take the stand for the prosecution was a pathologist with the Medical Examiners Office.