BOSTON: Advocacy group suing state over failed foster care system
On April - 16 - 2010
A national advocacy group says it’s filing a lawsuit in federal court in Boston seeking reform of the state’s foster care system because it is hurting, rather than helping, vulnerable children.
The group Children’s Rights says in its civil rights class action suit that the foster care system is “causing physical and psychological harm to the abused and neglected children it is mandated to protect.”
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