County Hires Firm to Investigate Boy’s Death
Alameda County officials have hired a law firm to investigate the Social Services Agency’s response to calls involving a 3-year-old Oakland boy who was beaten to death.
The agency has been criticized for failing to remove Chazarus Hill Jr. from the custody of his father, who allegedly hit the boy over several days because the child was not correctly reciting ABC’s and numbers.
The child died Sept. 20 after being taken to San Leandro Hospital.
The boy’s father, Chazarus Hill Sr., 23, has been charged with murder, felonious assault on a child under 8 and child endangerment.
Hill’s wife of five months, Kymberly Ford-Hill, 32, who is not the boy’s mother, also was charged with felony child endangerment.
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