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The family of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr. is remembering the little boy as a “joyful,” “brilliant” “happy boy who loved life, who would light up any room that he would enter into.”

The family of 3-year-old Ke’Torrius “K.J.” Starkes Jr. is remembering the little boy as a “joyful,” “brilliant” “happy boy who loved life, who would light up any room that he would enter into.”

The toddler died after he was trapped inside a hot car while in the custody of a worker contracted by the Alabama Department of Human Resources, the state’s child protective services agency, according to the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office and the state Department of Human Resources. The Birmingham Police Department is investigating the death.

K.J. had been left inside a car parked outside a home in Birmingham for several hours during the middle of the day on Tuesday, the Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office said.

  • AreaKode@lemmy.world
    161·
    1 day ago

    Wow. CPS takes your kid away, and promptly proves that they aren’t capable of being a safe guardian either.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      70·
      1 day ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child

      Raised by wolves

      Hessian wolf-children[19]: 15–7 [20] (1304, 1341 and 1344) lived with the Eurasian wolf in the forests of Hesse:

      • The first boy (1304) was taken by wolves at age 3 and found when 7 or 8 by Benedictine monks, the wolves having cared for him by “surrounding him in cold weather, and fed him the best meat from the hunt.” He was later sent to the court of Prince Henry, and became accustomed to human society but said he preferred the wolves.[21]

      Frankly, Alabama, I think that you need to up your child-rearing game to at least wolf-level.