The toddler died after he was trapped inside a hot car while in the custody of a worker contracted by the Alabama Department of Human Resources, the state’s child protective services agency
As you might expect, there are quite disturbing details in the article.
Should never have happened but when you over work and under pay people like social workers get this is an expected outcome.
There was a Pulitzer Prize-winning story from 2009 that took a relatively compassionate perspective towards parents who make the same mistake.
It’s rough. Our system is completely incompatable with human flourishing and the blame for failing to flourish is placed on it’s victims when they fail to flourish. Which is the expected outcome in the system. I go back and forth about what the actual ethical weight in a situation like this is.