Deshaunsay Sykes-Crowder?s short life does not appear to have been a happy one. But it might be a profitable one ? for others, at least. Last month, Deshaunsay?s estate and her mother filed a civil rights suit in U.S. District Court in Madison against Dane and Cuyahoga (Ohio) counties and the 6-year-old?s aunt, Lynda Sykes, who was also her foster mother.
Quoted: Susan Michaud, a former child welfare worker who now runs the public child welfare training program at UW-Madison