The New York City Administration for Children’s Services effectively serves as a policing system for parents, which disproportionately targets families of color and only rarely finds evidence of abuse or neglect.
Long before the murder-suicide, there had been numerous reports to CPS about suspected abuse in the Hart household.
Countless forms of detention and foster care facilities are profiting from warehousing the humans treated as remnants.
Stories that uncritically blame child welfare agencies for the deaths of children at the hands of their parents can contribute to increases in child removals—with devastating consequences for families.
Tammy Scheurich, who lost three biological children in the Hart family crash last year, tells her story for the first time.
With journalist Roxanna Asgarian.
The Hart family’s apparent murder-suicide drew headlines, but the path to the tragedy started much earlier—in Texas.