Speak out for the boy

Can we get back to the issue at hand and remove our egos? That would be the death of a child who might be alive right now if the Department of Human Services had done its job. Subsequent letters attacking those who ask for substance from the department and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ring so hollow and shallow as one imagines the 5-year-old child who was found with a maggot-filled soiled diaper two weeks after a report had been made concerning him.

The department’s mission is to protect children. Expecting it to do it, and expressing outrage when dead children can’t speak for themselves any more, is what a decent human should do.

LISA MORGAN

Alexander