Where was CPS before this kid became so far gone?
When I was (very briefly in the business) the first order of business after a kid was taken from ‘home’ was to plan to get him back. One kid being abused/neglected out of say 7 in a family was no grounds to do anything with the other six. And don’t even think about placing a black kid with a white family—that is racist.
CPS likely doesn’t have enough foster parents to house all of the potential 14-year-old murders in the city anyway.
Well that was sort of my point. I just wasn’t sure if I should insert the sarcasm tag since it is such a tragedy. But as you said too common an occurrence be it 12, 14, 16 year olds. Kids are raised on the streets what do we expect will become of them?