Alabama toddler dies in hot car while in state custody | CNN
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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.

  • avattar
    39·
    6 months ago

    If I lived in Alabama and CPS tried to take my child away, I would rather die protecting him.

    • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
      31·
      6 months ago

      Exactly. Even if the parents are unsafe for the kid, the government’s just proved that it’s even worse. Good luck trying to get people to give up their kids voluntarily.

    • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
      19·
      6 months ago

      It’s not just Alabama.

      Georgia has repeatedly failed my kids by not preventing them from being abused (obviously not by me)

      • FerretyFever0@fedia.io
        13·
        6 months ago

        This country has repeatedly proven itself to just not care about people, especially kids and the elderly. It’s depressing and horrifying and monstrous. Guess we can add that to the pile of depravity.

      • avattar
        4·
        6 months ago

        Being abused while in CPS custody, though?