DCFS

A performance audit of the Department of Children and Family Services released by the state auditor general this month found substandard practices for…

“Sham investigations” by state child welfare workers emboldened Rica Rountree’s abusers to continue the abuse that led to her death in January 2019,…

When Ann Simmons last saw her daughter Rica Rountree alive on April 20, 2018, with obvious signs of abuse, she knew she had to change her life for the…

The hastily concluded investigation by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services into black eyes and bruises on a child who died weeks later…

After almost two years of waiting, Ann Simmons delivered a message Thursday to the woman who killed her daughter, 8-year-old Rica Rountree.“You beat and…

The Normal-based Baby Fold is cheering the governor’s proposed $147 million budget increase for the Department of Children and Family Services.The Baby…

The father of a murdered 8-year-old girl is now under arrest.Normal Police took Richard Rountree into custody Tuesday for allegedly endangering the life…