Child advocates are asking whether the recent death of 16 month-old Amiya Brown signals wider problems at Fulton County's child welfare office. A case worker had returned the baby to her mother just days before. The child had been hospitalized with suspicious injuries. The mother and the mother's boyfriend are now charred with her murder.
The Georgia Division of Family and Children Services is now investigating how the case was handled. Investigators want to know weather or not the case worker decided to send the child home with her parents rather than refer the case to the courts.
Georgia Child Advocate Tom Rawlings hopes the probe will go farther than fingerpointing: "We want to look at this case not in terms of blaming somebody for having made a mistake, but our role, of course, is to see how we can improve the situation so that this kind of thing does not happen again." Rawlings thinks the Amiya Brown case is a anonmaly, not a sign of systemic failures in the Fulton County office.
The Georgia Division of Family and Children Services is now investigating how the case was handled. Investigators want to know weather or not the case worker decided to send the child home with her parents rather than refer the case to the courts.
Georgia Child Advocate Tom Rawlings hopes the probe will go farther than fingerpointing: "We want to look at this case not in terms of blaming somebody for having made a mistake, but our role, of course, is to see how we can improve the situation so that this kind of thing does not happen again." Rawlings thinks the Amiya Brown case is a anonmaly, not a sign of systemic failures in the Fulton County office.
