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August 9, 2007
 A New York City Department of Investigation Examination of 11 Child
Fatalities & One Near Fatality
The report was conducted by the New York City Department of Investigation
(DOI) and the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) at the request
of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The DOI reviewed ACS actions in the
cases of 11 children who died and one who nearly died between October
2005 and July 2006 after claims of neglect or abuse had been reported to
ACS.
In all but one of the cases, DOI labeled the ACS investigations as
substantially inadequate and incomplete. The report noted that a key
problem in the child deaths was that ACS caseworkers often accepted the
parents word that nothing was wrong, failed to interview witnesses, and
failed to examine records that could have revealed patterns of abuse.
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