Still Broken

Federal prosecutors last week secured guilty pleas in the brutal deaths of two DC children. But some advocates and officials say the potential penalties are far too lax. U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and DC Police Chief Robert J.…

“I'm going to make you two promises in this trial,” DC defense attorney Jonathan Zucker told the jury in his opening statement in the trial of James Embre for the murder of 2-year-old Aceyson Ahmad. “Promise No. 1: A week from now, a month…

The child who arrived at the home of Magdalena and Gabriel Acevedo entered the city’s foster care system, managed by the DC Child and Family Services Agency, at only three months old. Now, at 2 years old, the Acevedos’ was the child’s…

Gabriel Eason’s name appeared in broadcast media and newspapers for a few weeks following his death in April 2020 and once again after the November arrests of his mother, Ta’Jeanna Eason, and her boyfriend, Antonio Dale Turner, for…

One day in April 2020, a person renting a room from Diamond Taylor and Tyvez Jackson in their apartment at 2812 Pomeroy St. SE made an anonymous call to the hotline operated by the DC Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA). He told the…

Outside the three-story, red brick apartment building at 935 Division Ave. NE, it must have seemed like an ordinary spring day on April 1, 2020, with an overcast sky and a temperature of around 45 degrees. Yet the tragic events unfolding…

Over the summer, the DC government announced it had reached a settlement in the 32-year class-action lawsuit that sought extensive reform of the city’s child welfare system — a case initially known as LaShawn A. v. Marion Barry Jr. With…