The Alabama Department of Human Resources defines its mission in reassuring terms: “To provide for the protection, well-being and self-sufficiency of children and adults.” Yet across the state, stories continue to surface that show an agency...

This is our second report concerning a beautiful little girl whose arm was broken while at a daycare in Dothan, Alabama. Three-year-old Xylah, a nonverbal autistic child whose well-being was entrusted to the staff at...