DeMarcus Osby spoke out only to CBS 2's Chris Tye about the child welfare system that he says failed his daughter.
That father spoke out only to CBS 2's Chris Tye about the child welfare system that he says failed his daughter.Amaria was the 8-year-old whom her father called"his heart." The father tried, but says he was repeatedly denied custody of the little girl
Hagler confessed to police that Amaria refused to drink some bleach she poured her — so, high on PCP, Hagler covered Amaria's head with a plastic bag as her daughter shouted,"Mommy, stop!" So, why did she do it? DeMarcus Osby thinks it had everything to do with a visit to the house just hours earlier by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
"I saw bruises on her face," he said."That lets me know her mother was beating her, and she wasn't lying."But in a statement to CBS 2, the DCFS said during their visit to the house that day"the investigator noted no signs of abuse."DCFS policy calls on them to make contact, or attempted contact, with family within 24 hours of a hotline call indicating signs of neglect. DeMarcus Osby himself made that call back in March."What do you make of that? Sixty days.
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