Death Spurs Calls For Investigation into CPS- 12 yr old girl with cerebral palsy, 23 lbs

[The Straight Story]

Death Spurs Calls For Investigation into Child Protective Services
Written by Karen Massie, Reporter

Child advocates want Sacramento County's Child Protective Services investigated following the death of a 12-year-old girl.

Most neighbors living near Daelynn Foreman's Orangevale home claimed they didn't know the girl existed. One neighbor, who declined to give her name, said, “I seen her one time when she was boarding the school bus. She was very little. I thought she was like four or five old."

Daelynn had cerebral palsy and records show she weighed 60 pounds at age nine. When she died at home in July 2006, Sacramento County sheriff's deputies responded. They said the child's weight was just over 23 pounds. Their report also showed she had "multiple bed sores, some open all the way to the bone."

Last month, the girl's mother, Brandy Foreman was arrested on charges she starved her child to death.

It's a situation that angers Ed Howard of the Children's Advocacy Institute. "I'm haunted by the crying she must have done," he said. "Anybody with eyes can see that something was horribly wrong. It wasn't her disability that killed her. It was my county."

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A summary from the California Department of Social Services shows CPS investigated seven complaints about Daelynn since 2002. Five were inconclusive or unfounded. Two were substantiated, including the case that was open when she died. The summary says a CPS worker saw the girl on May 19, 2006, two months before her death.

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I don't even know what to say.

[Guaranteed]

1. Ugh.

That is really horrible.

[southerncrone]

2. Abominable

[MedleyMisty]

3. I read the rest of the story

It hasn't been proven or anything so this is just an allegation, but it sort of seems as if her mother starved her to death for the $175,000 in the trust fund.