Wendy is a reporter on the investigations team, taking deep dives on a variety of topics with an eye towards shedding light on a problem and examining possible solutions.
Though overjoyed by the prestigious academic achievement, Mackenzie Fierceton said: “I would trade all of this to have been adopted and have a family."
The boy was answering a knock at the front door of the Frankford home where he lived with his grandmother and 10-year-old sister. A bullet then tore through the door into his head, police said.
The lawsuit comes after a recent Inquirer investigation detailed how staffers at the leading behavioral health nonprofit for youth abused children for years while red flags were ignored.
The reversal comes in the wake of an Inquirer investigation that detailed how the organization repeatedly failed to protect children in its care from male staffers who sexually abused them.
About 75 girls and young women participated in the Philadelphia sports league’s inaugural “Walk for Justice," remembering victims and proposing police reforms. Help came from former Gov. Ed Rendell.
“On one particularly harrowing day in the Spring of 2019, at least four staff members fell ill and two of them were taken to hospitals by ambulance," the report found.
A longtime Philadelphia judge who drew complaints from public defenders and prosecutors for not wearing a mask during in-person hearings says he suffers a respiratory condition.
