After facing a rare felony indictment following a toddler’s highly-publicized death, two former Administration for Children’s Services workers have pleaded guilty to significantly-reduced charges that will likely be dismissed and the record will be sealed.
In March 2011, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office filed criminally negligent homicide charges against onetime ACS caseworker Damon Adams and supervisor Chereece Bell after the 4-year-old girl they were assigned to monitor, Marchella Pierce, was found dead, weighing a mere 18 pounds and with adult-level sleep medication in her system. The indictments were thought to be the first to charge ACS workers with homicide for job-related actions.
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