A shocking case out of Sebring, Florida has exposed the horrific abuse and death of 13-year-old Selena at the hands of her adoptive mother, Diane Mack. Once a Florida DCF worker and Guardian Ad Litem, Mack now faces capital murder charges for keeping her autistic daughter chained, starved, and surveilled in her own garage. This case raises damning questions about oversight failures in Florida’s child welfare system.

A shocking case in Waterbury exposed decades of abuse hidden in plain sight. A man held captive since childhood was discovered after setting fire to his home, forcing attention on failures by Connecticut’s DCF. Teachers and neighbors had raised alarms for years, yet the system erased records and ignored warnings. This tragedy joins a pattern of preventable child deaths and neglect cases that reveal a child protection agency in crisis.