New York City child welfare workers are said to have visited the home of Myls Dobson, age 4, on nine separate occasions, never did they realize the boy’s father who has had custody of him since August 2012 was in jail in connection with a fraud case. Each time the case workers asked of the father’s whereabouts, they were told by his partner that he was at work.
Okee Wade, 37, the boy’s father, has an extensive criminal record. Yet, case workers never bothered to check with his parole officer to determine his whereabouts or status. A condition of Wade receiving custody of his son was to have regular visits from the Administration of Child Services visit for a year to check up on the child and contact the father’s parole officer.
The boy was found tortured to death while in the care of a Manhattan woman who admits to starving, burning and beating him. The boy died on January 8th. The boy was found unconscious and unresponsive on the bathroom floor of the woman’s apartment in the upscale Ritz Plaza. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
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