https://www.shawmediaillinois.com/enDocumentaryCopyright Shaw Local News Networkhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/8d0f142a6c7dd03c64cb399f9b7de749.jpghttps://www.shawmediaillinois.com/Sat, 12 Apr 2025 17:29:11 +0000Shaw Local News NetworkShaw Local News Networkcontact@shawmediaillinois.comThe deaths of two young children in recent years bear some similarities. Parents of both AJ Freund and Sema’j Crosby had been contacted repeatedly by child-welfare workers. Both had been allowed to remain in the home despite sometimes squalid living...falseepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-2-her-tireless-knight--22781698https://api.spreaker.com/episode/22781698Fri, 14 Feb 2020 21:17:17 +0000Shaw Local News NetworkA DCFS worker trying to take a child into protective custody is beaten into a coma by the child's father and dies four months later. Some of the root causes of bad outcomes for DCFS workers and kids in the child welfare system – overworked and...1185child-welfare,dcfs,system-failurefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-1-when-it-works-when-it-doesn-t--22208929https://api.spreaker.com/episode/22208929Wed, 29 Jan 2020 20:58:26 +0000Shaw Local News NetworkWhat does it take to remove a child from the home? And why weren't AJ Freund or Sema'j Crosby? Our first episode on what happened and why.1661aj-freund,dcfs,sema'j-crosby,system-failurefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/intro-to-system-failure--22160593https://api.spreaker.com/episode/22160593Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:28:37 +0000Shaw Local News NetworkThe deaths of two young children in recent years bear some similarities. Parents of both AJ Freund and Sema’j Crosby had been contacted repeatedly by child-welfare workers. Both had been allowed to remain in the home despite sometimes squalid living...127aj-freund,dcfs,department-of-child-and-family,sema'j-crosby,system-failurefalsefull