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Entries from DCist tagged with 'childandfamilyservices'

August 5, 2008

The Examiner has word of the death of another child who had been recently brought to the attention of the District's troubled Child and Family Services Agency. A 6-year-old girl, identified only by her initials, DHB, swallowed a handful of antidepressants prescribed to her father. She was taken to a hospital last week, and later died. Two weeks before, someone called the city’s child welfare hot line and reported the family was having “a housing......

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July 22, 2008

Over at City Desk, they've obtained an internal letter from the Child and Family Services Agency's new interim director, Dr. Roque Gerald. In the letter, addressed to "CFSA Colleagues," Gerald responds to revelations that he was sued over 20 years ago by a suicidal patient with whom he had sex. "Twenty years ago, I made an error that I recognized, regretted, and admitted immediately. I have continued to regret it ever since. That one-time lapse......

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