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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josh Marcus

Michigan child protection workers sued for failing to save three-year-old boy who was found dead in freezer

Chayce Allen had been abused for years before his death aged three - (GoFundMe)

Michigan child protective officials ignored evidence of severe abuse against a toddler, culminating in their failure to stop the 3-year-old from being killed and stuffed in his mother’s freezer in 2022, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court this week.

The complaint, filed on Monday, is from Juwan Allen, father of Chayce Allen, whom Detroit police found stuffed in a laundry bag in a freezer in the boy’s mother’s home in 2022.

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