John Ramsey, JonBenet Ramsey’s father, joins “Banfield” to discuss Boulder, Colorado, police announcing over the last year they’ve conducted several new interviews based on tips received and collected ...

Ten years after 2-year-old Bella Bond’s death exposed flaws in child welfare oversight, Massachusetts still struggles to act on its own risk assessments. In 2022, a Worcester family was identified as ...

A veteran attorney who brought cases for decades against the Department of Children and Families said the agency made missteps in the case of Jacqueline "Mimi" Torres-Garcia — the 11-year-old whose ...

The Department of Children and Families erroneously thought 4-year-old A’zella Ortiz had moved to New York before she was allegedly killed by her father in Worcester last year, a new report says, ...

The death of 4-year-old A’zella Ortiz in Worcester, Massachusetts, is the latest in a string of tragedies that the Office of the Child Advocate (OCA) says is part of repeated failures between child ...

OUR TODD KAZAKIEWICH IS IN WORCESTER WITH DETAILS TONIGHT. OVER THE COURSE OF DCFS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE FAMILIES, THE RISK TO THE CHILDREN ESCALATED AND THEIR WELL-BEING DECLINED. THE MASSACHUSETTS ...

Francisco Ortiz is charged with murder in the death of his 4-year-old daughter, A'zella, in October 2024. The state's Department of Children and Families monitored the family for nearly four years, ...

The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families had a lengthy history of involvement with the family of A'zella Ortiz before the 4-year-old girl was found dead in October 2024. Here is a ...

The death of 4-year-old A’zella Ortiz in Worcester is the latest in a string of tragedies that the Office of the Child Advocate (OCA) says is part of repeated failures between child welfare agencies ...

Despite squalid living conditions and ample evidence of negligence, Massachusetts’ child welfare agency failed to respond to warning signs about a Worcester couple in the years before the death of ...

WORCESTER, MASS. (WHDH) - The state Office of the Child Advocate released a report Wednesday following its investigation into the death of a 4-year-old in Worcester last year. A’zella Ortiz’s father, ...