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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Jacques Billeaud

Arizona group home provider at center of pay-to-play scandal escapes penalties for boy's death

US Foster Care Death Arizona - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The staff caring for Jakob Blodgett said he already had been sneaking candy and refused to take his insulin. An employee at the Arizona group home where the 9-year-old boy was being cared for texted a supervisor about the boy's elevated blood-glucose reading.

The response? Give him water.

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