The New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) recently collaborated with The Boston Globe on a major investigation into child abuse and neglect deaths in Massachusetts. After a two year, $4,500 struggle to obtain public records from the Department of Children and Families (DCF), NECIR published their findings in a project that details the rapid increase in child fatalities in the state through the lens of the 110 children who died of abuse or neglect between 2009 and 2013.
