Tragic Murder of 12-Year-Old Jacqueline Torres: AbleChild Calls Out Connecticut
Republished with permission from AbleChild.
The State of Connecticut has refused to incorporate human rights into its child welfare system. Today, the State is nothing more than a violent mobster-run enterprise masquerading as a viable political system.
AbleChild has worked for over 20 years in Connecticut fighting for children’s human rights and exposing the devastating failures of the Department of Children and Family Services (DCF) with the massive psychiatric drugging of children in State Care. The tragic murder of Mimi—12-year-old Jacqueline Torres—found dead in a container behind a Section 8 abandoned house in New Britain is the inevitable result of a corrupt system that refuses to protect its children.
Hartford’s Mayor Arunan Arulampalam has been exposed as complicit in this deadly failure. Despite knowing of egregious Section 8 housing violations for years, the Mayor did nothing to stop the landlords responsible. These landlords should have been immediately shut down when the first violations were identified, yet the Mayor only issued list disclosures and slow crackdowns long after vulnerable families paid the price. His empty rhetoric and delayed action amount to a betrayal of every child and family relying on safe housing.
Connecticut’s political monopoly protects these corrupt landlords and an ineffective DCF, perpetuating cycles of neglect, abuse, and murder. Mimi’s loss is a grim reminder that this system’s so-called “protections” are a sham.
AbleChild demands immediate accountability from the State of Connecticut and calls for the FBI to be brought in to oversee any and all interactions Mimi and her family had with the State, including with the Department of Children and Family Services. This federal oversight is essential to ensure transparency, justice, and reform. Connecticut has proven over and over again it cannot investigate itself.
No more children should suffer or be murdered in this broken system. Connecticut must dismantle this corrupt political machine and put human rights, safety, and justice at its core.
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