A bill is moving through the North Carolina General Assembly named for a six-year-old who died late last year.
According to investigators, Dominique Moody was beaten and starved. WBTV investigated the situation and found that Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services had received reports of abuse related to Dominique and closed them before her death. A relative told WBTV that the system has blood on its hands.
Among other things, the bill creates a child welfare escalation team that would operate under the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Lawmakers say the legislation was spurred by reporting on the local level…