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

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.

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 ...

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.

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.