For about nine months, foster care caseworkers and their bosses made 13 visits to the Lauderhill home of Tamiyah Audain, held 30-minute meetings, conferred with other social service workers and filed numerous reports, all of which documented the preteen was in good health. She was actually losing half her body weight and slowly filling with poisons. Tamiyah’s death on Sept. 25, 2013, while under the care of Florida’s foster care system, likely was the result of severe malnutrition and systemic infection, an autopsy said. But, in a deeper sense, a review of the girl’s death said, Tamiyah succumbed to the failure of Broward child welfare administrators to overcome “obstacles and bureaucratic...
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