CAROL MARBIN MILLER Miami Herald

October 18, 2014
In Lake County, a disfigured 2-month-old whose mother did not want him is left alone in a motel room for 90 minutes, and is later found smothered. His family had been the subject of 38 prior investigations by the state's child welfare agency.

May 15, 2014
In his second week on the job, the Department of Children & Families' top administrator made good on his first formal pledge by appointing a professional social worker and agency veteran to be the state's first statewide fatality prevention specialist.