A
unit of child welfare workers that took two days to find a 3-year-old
Brooklyn boy, who later died, was understaffed and poorly trained in how
to search a database that contained the toddler’s correct address, a
report issued on Thursday by the New York City Investigation Department
said.
The boy, Jaden Jordan, was found unconscious and covered in feces in his home on Nov. 28 — two days after the city’s Administration for Children’s Services had received an anonymous child-abuse complaint. Social workers had spent those 48 hours knocking on the wrong doors.
Jaden’s
case was another high-profile death involving a child whose family had
previous contact with the child welfare agency, which was already under
immense scrutiny.