ACS to add staffers, cut case loads after children's deaths

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ERIN DURKIN

The Administration for Children’s Services is beefing up its operation with 362 new staffers after the deaths of three young children so far this year, Commissioner Gladys Carrion said Thursday.

“New York City has been saddened by the reports of tragic deaths of several young children this year, as recently as last week,” Carrion said at a City Council hearing, pledging the new staffers would “strengthen the agency’s overall child protective practices.”

Mayor de Blasio ordered a series of reforms after the torture and beating death of 4-year-old Myls Dobson in January.

Since then, two other children whose families had been probed by the agency have died. Two-year-old Kevasia Edwards, was allegedly beaten to death by her mother, and 4-year-old Juan Sanchez died after eating rat poison while playing unsupervised in a stairwell.


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1. This is kind of a horrible sine wave.

After Nixzmary Brown died, they added people. Then they cut them back gradually. Now these kids have died, and they're adding people. I wonder how long before they are cut back. I hope they last a while.

[hrmjustin]

2. I never got why administrations in the padt felt the need to cut ACS.

Shameful!