A non-profit child welfare agency and one its former counselors provided services in two of Los Angeles County's most publicized child abuse deaths.
contractor that is paid millions of dollars by the county for child welfare services.The agency, Hathaway Sycamores Child and Family Services, and one of its former counselors, Barbara Dixon, provided services to 10-year-old Anthony Avalos following a troubled history in Gabriel's case, court documents reviewed by the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and The Times found.
While working Anthony's case, Dixon at times offered a positive account of Barron’s parenting and depicted Anthony as a difficult child, the DCFS records show. Social workers cited Dixon's assessment that Anthony could continue to live at home. The Department of Children and Family Services closed Anthony’s case more than a year before his death.
Dixon testified that her boss at Hathaway, Michael Bailey, did not want her to report the abuse. Dixon added that she complied. Child abuse investigators never learned about the injuries she saw while he was alive, DCFS records show. Dixon also testified that her supervisors at Hathaway told her not to cooperate with police investigating his death. Bailey did not respond to messages seeking comment.
“Bom could not have predicted … an in-home counselor like Ms. Dixon would knowingly fail to report signs of abuse,” Kuyumjian said. A trial in the case of Bom and the other three case workers is expected later this year.Los Angeles County officials continued to enlist Hathaway Sycamores and Dixon for counseling services, according to DCFS records. Hathaway Sycamores is one of the county’s largest contractors, receiving $467 million over the past decade.
DCFS Director Bobby Cagle declined to be interviewed about Anthony’s case. He said he was not able to directly address questions about an outside contractor. Office of Child Protection Director Michael Nash, who led the county’s review of Anthony’s death, said he read limited excerpts of the Hathaway records but not Dixon's notes. He also did not examine whether their handling of Gabriel’s case affected the county’s decision to continue using the firm.
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