Category Archives: Sun Sentinel

South Florida Sun Sentinel By Sofia Santana FORT LAUDERDALE – Does a 7-year-old understand suicide? Unable to answer that question scientifically, the Broward Medical Examiner’s Office has decided not to rule a Margate boy’s hanging death earlier this year a … Continue reading →

Sun Sentinel Editorial Board The working group brought together by the tragic death of Gabriel Myers has finished its work. Unfortunately, its final report comes as no surprise: Simply put, the 7-year-old foster child who committed suicide died at the … Continue reading →

Sun Sentinel By Kelli Kennedy The Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE – The head of the state’s child welfare agency is recommending stricter rules for prescribing powerful anti-depressants and other drugs to foster children after a 7-year-old in state care committed … Continue reading →

Sun Sentinel By Marc Caputo The Miami Herald MIAMI – Child-welfare doctors and case managers routinely failed to complete legally required treatment plans, share information or properly document the prescribing of powerful psychiatric drugs for children, according to a new … Continue reading →

Sun Sentinel Posted by Doug Lyons July 1, 2009 By: Howard M. Talenfeld and Maria E. Abate The use of dangerous prescription medications for children and adults in residential and group home facilities licensed by the Florida Agency for Persons … Continue reading →

Sun Sentinel Sun Sentinel Editorial Board It wasn’t that long ago when the Florida Department of Children & Families was seen as a hapless bureaucracy. Whether it was their seeking to incarcerate an 8 year-old to ensure he received proper … Continue reading →

Sun Sentinel By Brian J. Cabrey The April 16 suicide death of 7-year-old Gabriel Myers, a foster child in the custody and care of the Florida Department of Children and Families, shocks the conscience. Gabriel apparently hung himself with the … Continue reading →

Sun Sentinel THE ISSUE: Death raises concern about psychotropic drugs. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board Gabriel Myers committed suicide in a Margate foster home, and his death resurrects a problem many thought had been addressed by state law — the misuse … Continue reading →

Sun Sentinel Study is more fallout from suicide of 7-year-old foster child in Margate By Jon Burstein Almost one of every six foster children on mood-altering drugs in Florida is being given the medications without the court order or parental … Continue reading →

The Associated Press and SunSentinel.com TALLAHASSEE – A report ordered after the suicide of a 7-year-old boy in Margate says proper authorization was not obtained for 16 percent of Florida foster children taking antidepressants and other prescribed psychotropic drugs. Florida … Continue reading →