New York Wrongful Death: Brooklyn Grand Jury found that the City’s Administration of Child Services could have prevented 19 deaths between 2005 and 2010

At least 19 children under the watch of the ACS died because the agency ignored recommendations to improve its practices according to a report from an investigative grand jury impaneled in Brooklyn after 4-year-old Marchella Brett-Pierce’s 18-pound body was found beaten, drugged and starved to death by her mother in Sept. 2010.

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