(KRON) — Jordan Cam Walker’s short life was filled with neglect at home and red flags raised by concerned adults, according to a new lawsuit filed against Santa Clara County’s Department of Child Protective Services and Department of Children and Family Services.
The six-year-old San Jose boy was stabbed to death at home in the summer of 2023. Jordan’s uncle is charged with murder.
Attorneys representing the boy’s grandfather, Morian Walker, filed a lawsuit this month against the county for failing to remove Jordan from allegedly neglectful family members. The suit claims CPS agents placed the boy in dangerous home living environments, despite Walker’s numerous warnings and attempts to gain child custody through Santa Clara County courts.
The wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit, filed by Costanzo Law Firm, was first reported by the Mercury News.
CPS officials received “numerous credible complaints and reports that Jordan was living in a dangerous environment, both while in his mother’s care, and later, when placed with his great-grandmother,” the lawsuit states.