Our editors’ picks of the latest investigative stories around the Web:
- Oregon officials placed a 4-year-old American foster child with relatives in Mexico, where she enduring months of abuse and died, reports the Oregonian. Oregon still had legal responsibility for the girl, but according to the paper, “the state’s monitoring of her welfare was limited to occasional phone calls — mostly to her abusers — and unquestioning dependence on welfare workers in Mexico.” The girl’s caseworker “insists he saw no red flags that would have prompted him to bring [the girl] back from Mexico before she died.” The majority of U.S.-born children sent from state foster care to live in other countries go to Mexico, but “little has been done on either side of the border to ensure [their] safety,” reports the Oregonian.
Check out more of our roundup in “Breaking on the Web.”
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