Let kids' deaths haunt debate for CPS reform

Their voices cry out from across the years and beyond the grave. TaJuana, and China Marie, who died in 1993 - just two weeks after a state child-welfare official declared that she was "thriving."After the deaths of China and TaJuana, another foster child beaten to death, CPS officials vowed to fix things. But nothing changed, other than the politicians in charge of this state.And there were more voices. Henry and Odessa and 5-year-old Donovan, who was left in an unsafe home despite a pattern of abuse and a pediatrician's warning that if he died "it will be the result of neglect on the part of CPS." Donovan died in April 1996, during Child Abuse Prevention Month, and CPS vowed to change.

But nothing changed. Only the names of dead.
                                                By Laurie Roberts