{"id":433425,"date":"2010-03-16T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fa8816d970c"},"modified":"2010-03-16T15:31:49","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T19:31:49","slug":"south-l-a-foster-mother-boyfriend-are-under-investigation-in-childs-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/433425","title":{"rendered":"South L.A. foster mother, boyfriend are under investigation in child’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

A foster mother and her boyfriend are under investigation in the death
\nof a 2-year-old child in their care who was beaten with a hammer,
\naccording to authorities and coroner’s records.
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\n
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\nViola Vanclief<\/a>‘s death March 4 is the latest in a series of troubles
\nlinked to United Care Inc , a nonprofit foster care agency that
\ncontracts with Los Angeles County to provide shelter for abused and
\nneglected children.
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\n
<\/br> Records show that United Care, which oversees 88 homes with 216
\nfoster children, has been repeatedly cited in recent years after
\ncaregivers choked, hit and whipped their charges with a belt. In 2007,
\na foster child drowned while swimming unsupervised in a pool.
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\n
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\nSouth Los Angeles residents Kiana Barker, 30, and her boyfriend, James
\nJulian, 38 were arrested last week on suspicion of murder in connection
\nwith Viola’s death, according to Los Angeles police records. They were
\nreleased two days later, with no charges filed. Police are continuing
\nto investigate the couple.
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\n
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Barker was decertified as a foster parent last week, and state
\nregulators posted a notice near one of the no trespassing signs outside
\nher house saying that a child-care center license there had been
\nsuspended.<\/p>\n

Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Read The Times’ series on child deaths in L.A. County here.<\/a><\/p>\n

–Garrett Therolf and Anna Gorman<\/p>\n


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A foster mother and her boyfriend are under investigation in the death of a 2-year-old child in their care who was beaten with a hammer, according to authorities and coroner’s records. Viola Vanclief‘s death March 4 is the latest in a series of troubles linked to United Care Inc , a nonprofit foster care agency […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}