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Death of Angela gets to heart of child abuse prevention

The recent death of Angela Jackson, the Cleveland 3-year-old who spent most of her short, tragic life in foster care and who died when returned to her own mother, has triggered the outrage that we have come to associate with unspeakable child-welfare tragedies.

Our first response is tremendous sadness, followed by anger at our inability to protect the community's children. The account of a child allowed to suffer injury, allegedly at the hands of the very person most obliged to love and protect, is a story that begs for an explanation, a full accounting, the assignment of responsibility and an assurance from someone that something will be done to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.

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