{"id":72,"date":"2008-07-17T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/child-welfare-worker-charged-in-babys-death.html"},"modified":"2008-07-17T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T12:35:00","slug":"child-welfare-worker-charged-in-babys-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/child-welfare-worker-charged-in-babys-death.html","title":{"rendered":"Child welfare worker charged in baby&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"7\/2008 03:18 PM<br \/><br \/>By SUSAN HAIGH<br \/>Associated Press Writer<br \/><br \/>HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ An employee of the state Department of Children and Families has been charged in the death of a 7-month-old foster child in her care, prompting the agency to seek her dismissal.<br \/><br \/>State police charged Suzanne Listro, 40, of Mansfield, with manslaughter Wednesday in the May 19 death of Michael Brown Jr., who suffered a blunt trauma head injury at her home. At a court appearance Thursday, a judge set bond at $1 million.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;We don&#8217;t expect her to be posting bond today,&#8221; her attorney, Matthew Potter, said Thursday. He declined to comment further.<br \/><br \/>Listro, a children&#8217;s services consultant for the department, received a foster care provider&#8217;s license earlier this year, despite having been investigated twice within the past two years on allegations she abused another child she adopted, said the agency&#8217;s commissioner, Susan Hamilton. The allegations were not substantiated.<br \/><br \/>Listro has been placed on unpaid leave, and Hamilton is seeking to have her fired.<br \/><br \/>The agency will start requiring an outside firm to review agency employees who want to be foster parents.<br \/><br \/>Hamilton said she also plans to dismiss a department investigator who handled the two previous abuse probes in 2006 and 2007 involving Listro and her adopted child. She called those investigations &#8220;substandard and unacceptable.&#8221;<br \/><br \/>A manager who approved both investigations will be suspended for 20 days, Hamilton said.<br \/><br \/>Because the alleged abuse was unsubstantiated, Listro&#8217;s name was not listed in the automated child abuse and neglect registry when she was being investigated for a foster care license, Hamilton said.<br \/><br \/>&#8220;Although it&#8217;s impossible to determine whether this information would have changed the licensing decision, it&#8217;s clear that it should have been easily accessible to the licensing staff,&#8221; Hamilton said","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\/2008 03:18 PMBy SUSAN HAIGHAssociated Press WriterHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ An employee of the state Department of Children and Families has been charged in the death of a 7-month-old foster child in her care, prompting the agency to seek her dismissal.State police charged Suzanne Listro, 40, of Mansfield, with manslaughter Wednesday in the May 19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[342,347,346,8],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birth-trauma","tag-birth-trauma-attorney","tag-birth-trauma-lawyer","tag-cerebral-palsy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerebral-palsy-medicalmalpractice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}