State agency suppressed 725 child death reports over decade

Times Union: Over the past decade, more than 700 reviews of child deaths in New York were kept hidden by a state agency, decisions denying the public answers about whether Child Protective Services (CPS) workers failed those children.

The most recent suppression stems from an unusually high-profile case: The January death of Thomas Valva, the autistic 8-year-old who had allegedly been beaten by his father, then forced to sleep in a freezing garage in Suffolk County, Long Island, where he froze to death.

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