Illinois officials are seeking answers after the killing last week of a state child welfare worker during a home visit — the second such tragedy to occur in less than five years.
stabbed to death last Tuesday
Silas’ death is the second time in four-and-a-half years that state officials and the social work community are asking what should have been done, but wasn’t, to prevent it. DCFS investigator Pamela Knight, 59, died following a brutal beating while attempting to remove an endangered child from his father in September 2017.
"DCFS, if you’re sending someone into a situation like this, just send two at a time," Silas’ father, Roy Graham, said last week. "Whether it’s a male and female or two males or two females, either way, but send two per visit, not just one." Benjamin H. Reed, 32, was arrested just before 6:30 p.m. and was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, the Sangamon County sheriff’s office said.
The problem, though, is that pairing workers stretches the workforce, sometimes resulting in plucking employees from other offices, Black said. The Urbana office has a worker shortage of more than 6% and agents on Black’s team have caseloads of 30 to 50 families per worker, in many cases exceeding the limit of a 1988 federal consent decree that limits to 12 the number of new cases assigned monthly to each worker.
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