BOSTON - A third employee of Massachusetts’ social services agency has been fired for her involvement in the case of a 5-year-old boy who has not been seen for months and is feared dead.
The commissioner of the state Department of Children & Families said Monday that an area program manager was fired after an investigation found she failed to ensure any follow-up was done after multiple reports of abuse and neglect in Jeremiah Oliver’s Fitchburg home.
A social worker and supervisor were fired earlier this month. Commissioner Olga Roche said another manager was given a three-day suspension without pay and demoted.
The boy disappeared in September, but police didn’t learn that until earlier this month. They are treating the case as a possible homicide.
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