Report: DCFS dropped the ball in tortured kid case

There wasn't even an twinge of surprise in me when I saw a report in the Los Angeles Times this morning that the Dept. of Children and Family Services investigated allegations in 2005 of possible neglect of a young boy, but closed the file without follow-up. Now, that boy is 5-years-old and clinging to life - his mother, her live-in girlfriend and their babysitter all charged this week with corporal injury to a child and child abuse. They allegedly held his little hands to a burning stove, scorched his body with burning cigarettes and nearly starved him to death.