On Dec. 13, after a long day of cleaning motel rooms as a housekeeper, Maria Juarez found her 16-year-old daughter at their South Los Angeles home trembling and sweating. Months later, Shaylee was targeted again at Manual Arts, her mother said, a fight that she believes led to her daughter’s untimely death. The Los Angeles County medical examiner this weekend …
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Maggie Hernandez dialed Los Angeles County’s child abuse hotline on a spring afternoon in 2019. In Noah’s case, his parents and Johnson’s own colleagues accused her of bias and having “an agenda,” according to DCFS records and internal emails. Vasquez Ducos wrote in her case notes that Noah’s mother had tears rolling down her face as she protested, “I don’t …
