thaJack
Regular Member
Warren v. District of Columbia is the main case cited with reference to this, but the other seminal case on this topic is DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services. That is one worth reading up on, too, as it says pretty much the same thing but in this case is applying it not necessarily to the police department.
The DeShaney Court held that a state government agency's failure to prevent child abuse by a custodial parent does not violate the child's right to liberty for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County
The DeShaney Court held that a state government agency's failure to prevent child abuse by a custodial parent does not violate the child's right to liberty for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County
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