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The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is the code department [2] [3] of the Illinois state government responsible for child protective services. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As of June 2019 [update] , Marc Smith is the acting Director of Children and Family Services.
On February 24, 2017, at around 6:30 a.m., Vincente Fuillerat, armed with a shotgun, murdered his wife, Lisa Fuillerat and her partner, Samara Routenberg.Fuillerat then wrote a suicide note (contents remain confidential) pinned it to his vest and killed himself with his own weapon. [1]
DCFS has received scrutiny for a number of cases where children have died after having contact with the agency, including: Damari Perry, 6, of North Chicago Sophia Faye Davis, 1, of Mechanicsburg
In 2016, there were 64 child maltreatment deaths reported in Illinois—a rate of 2.19 per 100,000 children (U.S. DHHS, 2018). From 2012 to 2016, Illinois' reported annual maltreatment-related deaths have been as high as 105 and as low as 64, with a decrease every year since 2014. [83]
The troubled state agency charged with the protection of abused and neglected children will have new leadership in the new year.. Gov. JB Pritzker announced Wednesday that Department of Juvenile ...
Virginia Tech shooting: 23-year-old student Seung-Hui Cho killed thirty-two students and faculty members in two separate attacks on the campus of Virginia Tech and then committed suicide. In a dorm room, he first shot one student, then another who came to help; two hours later, he went to a school building where he barricaded the main entrance ...
State Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, said the policies enacted by Democrats are “getting people killed.” “It’s not just the dollars, the taxpayer nonsense they've caused, that’s bad enough.
The suicide rate for Native Americans was 19.3 per 100,000, much higher than the overall rate of 8.5 per 100,000. The suicide rate for African Americans has increased more than twofold since 1981. A national survey of high school students conducted in 1999 reported that Hispanic students are twice as likely to report attempted suicide as white ...