BALLSTON SPA — A Saratoga County lawmaker is calling for a review and possible changes to how the county’s Child Protective Services operates after more information has surfaced about years of reported educational neglect and abuse of four Mechanicville children who were killed by their mother and grandmother.
Meanwhile, an attorney for the children’s father believes the county agency could’ve done more to protect them after noting that the mother was likely suffering from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a serious mental health condition that is considered a form of abuse and causes a caregiver to fabricate or exaggerate illnesses in someone under their care.
Ram Lalukota, a member of the county’s Health and Human Services Committee who represents Clifton Park on the Board of Supervisors, is seeking more information about Child Protective Services investigations into 44-year-old Sarah Myers, who, with help from her mother, 64-year-old Amy Steadman, killed Myers’ children on June 10. After Harper, 13, Hudson, 11, and twins Gavin and Gracelynn, 10, died, the two women died by suicide…