Cook County Public Guardian Charles Golbert submitted 12 pages Monday of what he calls systemic failures by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
Since December, eight children have died. One was, 8, who was killed by her mother Just hours after DCFS was at their Uptown neighborhood home.
Golbert lays out the department's failure to be transparent after Osby's death, and writes that a shortage of investigators continues to be a significant issue. He also cites a 33 percent recurrence rate of DCFS investigations involving the same family or child, which he wrote"indicates that DCFS' services are failing to help families and children."
Golbert further accuses DCFS of a lack of accountability and transparency on the part of DCFS. He returned to the Amaria Obsy case with regard to the transparency issue – noting that DCFS received a report of a risk of harm to Amaria that it didn't act on for two months, by which point Amaria was dead.
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