She scrambled, placing the older girls at a summer camp and the younger two siblings in temporary foster care. He told her to drop the two older girls off at Franklin County Children Services, a hulking brick edifice in downtown Columbus. “They could’ve just given me what they give one foster parent, and then I could’ve gotten housing, taken care of the kids and done what I needed to do,” Ms. Hammonds said. When they pulled up to the building, she said, Ma’Khia did not want to get out of the car. Instead, the county placed all four children in foster care.

Source: New York Times May 08, 2021 16:04 UTC