By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief
Korbin Papadopoulos needed a foster home that could handle his diabetes and autism. Missouri child welfare workers thought they had found one.
They were wrong.
Records obtained by The Independent show what workers knew, when they realized the placement was a mistake and what happened in the days that followed.
Steph Quinn reconstructs Korbin’s final weeks and the questions his death leaves for Missouri’s Children’s Division.
(photo submitted)
by Steph Quinn
Workers were searching for a home equipped for 17-year-old Korbin Papadopoulos’ medical needs. Instead, he was sent to a foster home whose caregiver said he wasn’t trained or licensed to manage diabetes
(Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector)
by Rudi Keller
The Missouri State Medical Association supports legislation to put limits on prior authorization for medical services and ending the use of managed care for the state’s Medicaid recipients.
(Otto Kitsinger for the Idaho Capital Sun)
by Kelcie Moseley-Morris
A federal court ruling out of Idaho has potential implications for exceptions in abortion bans nationwide and could eventually end up before the U.S. Supreme Court to decide.
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