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Two DHS managers get brief suspensions
0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, August, 2008 | by Patrick Kerkstra Inquirer Staff Writer
The city has dealt out minor punishments - brief suspensions without pay - to Pamela Mayo and Wesley Brown, senior Department of Human Services managers who supervised workers implicated in the starvation death in 2006 of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly. A third worker, Janice Walker, retired before the investigation was completed, though administration officials said yesterday they would have fired her had she not stepped down.
Kelly, who had cerebral palsy, died in August 2006, covered in bedsores and suffering from severe malnutrition. She was supposed to be under the protective care of DHS and a private contractor hired by the city agency. Though Mayo and Brown were not indicted, both were named in last month's scathing grand-jury report into Kelly's death, which found that...
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