An 18-year-old senior reported severe hunger among his siblings due to an absent mother to his school counselor. Despite multiple reports of neglect, the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services failed to open a case, resulting in the death of the youngest sibling, Thyri, from malnutrition and dehydration.
The soft-spoken 18-year-old had run out of food for his three younger siblings. He told the Canoga Park High School counselor that his mother was disappearing for days at a time, leaving him and his siblings, ages 11, 3 and 1, with hardly anything to eat. He filled his stomach with water to stave off the hunger. The senior, Alvondo Williams Jr., was sent home May 6 with a cooler filled with bread, milk, sandwich meat and cereal.
. She showed signs of dehydration, “poor diet” and possible neglect, according to the county coroner’s postmortem examination. James had resorted to feeding his baby sister jelly and french fries, according to a social workers are supposed to refer a child to a medical professional if they believe the child is malnourished. But the social worker described Thyri as 'happy' and closed the referral before a doctor saw her. 'If there's a lack of food in the home, and there's a 1-year-old, that's extremely dangerous,' said former
for the first time this year. The agency had received reports from the LAPD in 2022 and 2023 about fights between the mother and her then-partner, as well as with James, but never opened a case, according to report about the incident. The officer’s visit coincided with one of their mother's visits — she arrived with mac and cheese, chips and chicken. She “quickly dropped off the food and left,” the officer told
investigation into the hotline calls. A social worker's attempt to speak with Canoga Park High School was 'unsuccessful.' Nor did the social worker vet Wood's claim that her roommate and a family friend helped with the kids when she was gone. The roommate, a security guard in his thirties, told a social worker after Thyri died that he usually got home at 8 p.m., left at 4 a.m. and didn’t help with the children.
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