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9-year-old died after group home allowed him to refuse insulin, dad says. He's suing

The Arizona group home “shirked its responsibility to care for this child.”

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Family of 9-year-old who died in DCS custody files wrongful death suit

The family of a 9-year-old boy who died in the custody of the Arizona Department of Child Safety has filed a wrong death suit against DCS and the group home where he was placed.

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After 9-Year-Old Medically Kidnapped Diabetic Boy Died in Foster Care Due to Lack of Insulin, Investigation Reveals Many Deaths Happening in Arizona Group Foster Homes

A 9-year-old boy with Type 1 diabetes died 18 days after he was medically kidnapped from his father and put into the Arizona Foster Care system, and into a group home. The child's grandmother who lived in another state and would have surely welcomed the stay of her grandson, was apparently never even considered as a placement for the 9-year-old boy. ABC15 has published an investigation they conducted on the Arizona Foster Care system, and found that other children have died after being removed from their parents and put into Foster Care. But we are never going to get rid of the murderers and kidnappers if we keep saying that stories like this are "a systemic failure." This is a clear example of "systemic ABUSE", because this kind of abuse happens regularly throughout the entire system. To call it a "failure" is to claim that the system is failing to do what it is designed to do, and it pre-supposes that the system is designed to "protect" children. But that is NOT the function of the system, even though it claims to be. We need to move past what the system is claiming to be, and look at its actions and call them out for what they are DOING, and not what they are SAYING. We know that the system does NOT protect children, and we have known that for decades now based on wide-scale research on children in foster care. And that research states that children are better protected when they remain in their home with their family, even if that family is "troubled" and has issues, such as the parents being drug users, than when that child is ripped apart from the only people they have ever known who love them, and put into homes of strangers, or as in this case, into "group homes" who are for-profit businesses that make a very lucrative income from collecting funds from the State to "take care" of foster children. And this case with 9-year-old Jakob's murder is a clear example of how the child welfare system works, where neither he nor his father requested separation, but were forced to do it in what can only be called "kidnapping," and then 18 days later he was murdered by medical neglect and abuse by the Foster Care system. If Jakob had died in the care of his father because of not continuing his insulin dosages, his father would be facing murder charges for "medical neglect and abuse" today, but because it happened in a Foster Group Home run by a private corporation who collects funds from the Government, nobody will even be charged for those very same crimes.

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AZ senator wants accountability after boy with diabetes died in foster care

AZ senator wants accountability after ABC15 Investigation into the heartbreaking death of a 9-year-old boy with diabetes who died 18 days after being placed in the state’s foster care system.

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9-year-old boy with diabetes died days after being taken Arizona DCS' care

Medical records obtained by ABC15 show the state struggled to manage Jakob’s diabetes, and the group home where Arizona’s Department of Child Safety placed Jakob allowed him to refuse insulin.

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Diabetic son dies in AZ care while father was in jail

A 9-year-old diabetic child died under Arizona’s state care while his father was in jail. The son was brain dead within days of being taken into state custody.

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Arizona dad seeking answers after son dies in state care

Richard Blodgett said he suspects the Arizona Department of Child Safety failed in its duty to protect his son, who was diagnosed with diabetes as a toddler.

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Arizona dad seeking answers after son dies in state care

A 9-year-old boy whose father was in jail on a drug charge died under the custody of the Arizona child welfare agency.

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Arizona Dad Seeking Answers After Son Dies in State Care

"They couldn't keep him alive for two weeks, two weeks," the father told the Associated Press while on a recent furlough from jail.

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Arizona father jailed on drug charge accuses officials of failing to protect son who died

Richard Blodgett (left with his son Jakob) was jailed in December and his boy was put into a foster home. Just days after Blodgett was taken into custody, officials told him his son was brain dead.

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