DSS ignored 'red flag' of abuse - The Boston Globe

The state Department of Social Services allowed a 7-year-old boy to stay in a home where his mother's boyfriend, a former convict who had served time for crack cocaine possession and assaulting a police officer, beat the boy with a belt, burned his genitals with lit cigarettes, and urinated on his head, police said yesterday.... DSS ignored 'red flag' of abuse - The Boston Globe