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Protecting Children
Trials and Court Cases
In the Media

Protecting Children
Trials and Court Cases
In The Media
TJF Blog

Protecting Children
Trials and Court Cases
In The Media
TJF Blog

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Protecting Children

Stories, insights, and efforts focused on safeguarding the rights and well-being of children.

Op-Eds

State Failing Children at Cost of Their Lives

Carol Erskine December 21, 2025

Blog

Supreme Court Fails to Protect Children

Carol Erskine August 19, 2025

Exposés

Will Federal Authorities Get Justice for Harmony?

Carol Erskine June 5, 2025

Exposés

The Call for a Federal Probe

Carol Erskine June 4, 2025

Exposés

Making The Case for a Federal Investigation

Carol Erskine June 2, 2025

Blog

Justice For Harmony: What’s Coming Soon?

Carol Erskine May 15, 2025

Op-Eds

Saving the Children of Pappas Hospital

Carol Erskine February 9, 2025

Op-Eds

Massachusetts’ child welfare system is infected with dysfunction

Carol Erskine August 14, 2023

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Carol Erskine @TheCarolErskine ·

20 Jan 2013663331265945758

Honored to see my book on the shelves of the prestigious Copley Sq. main Boston Public Library—an institution I admired as a law student and just steps from my first legal job. The more eyes on the injustices in Massachusetts’ child welfare system, the better. Thank you BPL!

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15 Jan 2011846341966561381

How many homicides of DCF-involved children will it take before Massachusetts leaders act? After a decade of deaths, we now wait for the next child fatality. In "A Cruel Injustice," I warned that without reform, more children would die. Three weeks after the book's release,

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