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Santa Clara County’s embattled child protection agency placed a 2-year-old boy in foster care, where he died this month, with a relative despite the woman’s prior felony conviction for child endangerment.
Just weeks after coming under the care of Bridget Michelle Martinez, the boy, Jaxon Juarez, died in a hospital on April 9. Authorities charged Martinez’s then-17-year-old son with six counts of sexual assault of Juarez.
A felony child endangerment conviction prohibits the county’s Department of Family and Children’s Services from placing a child in her care, even in an emergency, according to the county’s own policy…