Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus & First Focus Campaign for Children wrote this excellent essay about the Miami Herald's investigative series into the deaths of 477 children who were part of Florida's child welfare system.
The Miami Herald series entitled "Innocents Lost" deserves a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation into 477 deaths of children that were a part of the child welfare system in the State of Florida over the past six years. More than 70 percent of the children who died were two years old or younger and completely defenseless.
The series reinforces two critical but basic responsibilities that we, as a society, owe children facing abuse and neglect:
- First, we must strengthen families by preventing abuse and neglect whenever possible.
- Second, we must take swift but thoughtful action that gives children the best possible chance to grow up in a safe, stable, loving and supportive permanent home.
The series also highlights another critical fact: money matters and the lives of our nation's most vulnerable children cannot be protected on the cheap.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-lesley/child-abuse-the-deadly-cost_b_5029768.html
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