System Failure

The deaths of two young children in recent years bear some similarities. Parents of both AJ Freund and Sema’j Crosby had been contacted repeatedly by child-welfare workers. Both had been allowed to remain in the home despite sometimes squalid living conditions. Both died in the home. Why couldn’t the state’s child-welfare system protect these two children? Shaw Media Illinois will share what it has found in its investigating and share compelling stories of those affected by the child-welfare system.