State child welfare officials got a complaint about child neglect three months before 2-year-old James Vessell Jr. died. It wasn’t the first one they had gotten about his mother, who
MILWAUKEE COUNTY — A 32-year-old Milwaukee woman is accused of severely abusing her three-month-old foster child, and experts say a family friend’s decision to call Child Protective Services on the
The Department of Health Services has received federal approval to create a foster care “medical home” program in southeastern Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker announced Monday. The program, scheduled to begin
A law spurred by the beating death of a 13-month-old Milwaukee boy has significantly improved the public accountability of those charged with protecting Wisconsin’s abused and neglected children, according to
