Andres Estrada

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No one was watching Andres as he peddled his tricycle into traffic. Adams County caseworkers had received eleven calls from people concerned about the safety of Andres and his siblings. Four of those reports were warnings that the children were regularly unsupervised and underdressed has they wandered around the busy Aurora parking lot. Six out of those eleven calls were never assigned to caseworkers for investigation.

 

The Adams County Department of Human Services met Andres and his family in May 2007, after someone reported his mother, Myrna Estrada, was leaving her young children alone. In October 2007, police officers found Andres’ three year old sibling wandering alone on a busy street corner.  A caseworker met with Estrada, who said she was able to watch her children from inside her apartment. The caseworker and Estrada discussed appropriate ways to supervise her children and Andres and his siblings were left in the home.

 

More than a year later, in December 2009, staff at Andres’ school called child protection workers. Andres was six and was still not potty trained. Caseworkers confirmed that Estrada had kept all of the children’s doctors appointments, but three months later they received another report she wasn’t keep the appointments. The second referral was not investigated. Four months later, a report that Estrada was not getting Andres to his dental appointment, was also not investigated. Caseworkers received their last referral about Andres eighteen days before he died. Estrada left Childrens’ Hospital with Andres before he could have his dental surgery. It was the only referral that was founded for neglect. Estrada was not charged in Andres’ death.

 

 

 

 

 

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