County to look at child welfare

Shocked that 14 children died of abuse or neglect last year even after social workers had looked into their situations, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday called for a comprehensive investigation of the county's child welfare system. Troy Anderson in the Daily News.

The children, including ones in Glendale and other parts of the San Fernando Valley, were victims of beatings, drowning and starvation, according to officials at the Department of Children and Family Services and Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect.