SACRAMENTO After a child dies while in foster care some claim a state service isn’t protecting, but neglecting.
A lot of outcry and outrage happened on the west steps of the capitol after young girl died in foster care. Supporters of two-year-old Jayla Fox said the child died under the care of foster parents.
“She was sick. I saw her,” said Brianna Fox, Jayla’s mother.
The father and mother say their baby girl didn’t have to die.
“We have a two-year-old dead baby on our hands. I love and miss my daughter. I wish she was with me today, but she is not,” said father Tyrone Thompson.
Jayla and her brother, four-year-old John, were taken from their parents and placed in foster care for reasons not disclosed. During a recent a visitation with her children, the mother told the social worker her kids looked sickly and thin and wanted them placed with different foster parents because she suspected abuse.
But the social worker disagreed, and within 30-days the little girl was dead from pneumonia.
Betty Williams of the Sacramento NAACP stepped in as an advocate for the family, and wanted John placed with pre Brianna’s family.
“When somebody walks in through the NAACP, it is that they are going outside the family and that piece of the system needs to be fixed,” said Williams.
CBS13 spoke with C.P.S. who released this statement:
“Based on the information we have received from our medical experts as well as a review of our records, it appears that Jayla received prompt and appropriate medical treatment while in foster care. We have asked our medical partners to review this case to be absolutely certain. Nevertheless, anytime a child dies, whether from illness or injury, it is heart-breaking. The many CPS workers who knew Jayla share in the community’s grief.”- Child Protective Services representative Laurie Slothower.
The good news for the family, they wanted the boy taken out of the foster parents’ home. Yesterday the little boy was taken out of the home, and placed into a different foster care. The family says they are happy about that.
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