Outrage After A Child Dies While In Foster Care
After a child dies while in foster care some claim a state service isn't protecting, but neglecting.
A lot of outcry and outrage happened on the west steps of the capitol after young girl died in foster care. Supporters of two-year-old Jayla Fox said the child died under the care of foster parents.
"She was sick. I saw her," said Brianna Fox, Jayla's mother.
The father and mother say their baby girl didn't have to die.
"We have a two-year-old dead baby on our hands. I love and miss my daughter. I wish she was with me today, but she is not," said father Tyrone Thompson.
Jayla and her brother, four-year-old John, were taken from their parents and placed in foster care for reasons not disclosed. During a recent a visitation with her children, the mother told the social worker her kids looked sickly and thin and wanted them placed with different foster parents because she suspected abuse.
But the social worker disagreed, and within 30-days the little girl was dead from pneumonia.
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