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• Release nears for foster mother blamed for starving child

  March 9, 2010 in City on Page A1 Carole DeLeon, the foster mother blamed for starving Tyler DeLeon to death, gets out of prison Wednesday after serving about half of the sentence she received in a 2007 plea … 7

• Guest opinion: Child welfare files still hazy

  January 24, 2010 in Opinion on Page B9 This month marks the fifth anniversary of the death of 7-year-old Tyler DeLeon, who lived and died in Washington’s child welfare system. It didn’t have to happen. 2

• DSHS settles in abuse case

  November 20, 2008 in City on Page B1 The state of Washington will pay more than $6 million to former foster children of Carole DeLeon, including the estate of the 7-year-old boy who died of starvation in her …

• Boy’s doctor missed abuse

  July 28, 2007 in City on Page A1 The family doctor who treated Tyler DeLeon didn’t recognize or report the pattern of abuse that killed him, according to a state investigation released last month. Child Protective Services investigators …

• DeLeon gets the maximum

  July 21, 2007 in City on Page A1 COLVILLE – The judge sentencing Carole Ann DeLeon faced a courtroom Friday divided between community outrage over the death of a little boy and an adoptive mother described by her …

• DeLeon detective content with plea deal

  July 20, 2007 in City on Page B2 While few, if any, of the families connected to the Carole DeLeon criminal case seem pleased by her plea agreement, the Stevens County sheriff’s detective who labored to bring justice …

• Birth mother decries plea deal

  July 17, 2007 in City on Page B3 Tyler DeLeon’s biological mother said she wasn’t consulted last week when prosecutors agreed to a plea agreement allowing the boy’s adoptive mother to avoid a possible lifelong prison term. Kenda …

• Deal lets DeLeon avoid trial

  July 14, 2007 in City on Page A1 The tiny little boy whose death shook the foundations of the state’s child welfare system and inspired the governor and others to seek reform will not get his case heard …

• Deleon timeline

  July 14, 2007 in City on Page A7 DeLeon timeline Here are summaries of some of the injuries and reports documenting Tyler DeLeon’s troubled life.

• DeLeon legal claims mount

  June 27, 2007 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – As Carole Ann DeLeon sits in jail, charged with killing her adopted son by depriving him of water, several of her foster children are filing millions of dollars …

• Files gone, histories erased

  September 16, 2006 in City on Page A1 It’s an open secret. Each year the state’s Department of Social and Health Services destroys thousands of private records about the children once in its care. Preserving the voluminous files …

• DeLeon pleads innocent to murder

  July 26, 2006 in City on Page A1 COLVILLE – Deer Park-area resident Carole Ann DeLeon pleaded innocent Tuesday to a second-degree murder charge in the death of her 7-year-old adopted son. She is accused of depriving Tyler …

• Ex-foster mother charged

  May 2, 2006 in City on Page A1 The Stevens County prosecutor has charged a former foster mother with criminal mistreatment of a young boy in her care but did not announce whether she would be charged in …

• Foster mother admits children reliant on state

  March 28, 2006 in City on Page B3 COLVILLE – A foster mother under criminal investigation for the death of her 7-year-old son acknowledged Monday in a civil proceeding that the state has enough evidence that a court …

• Why did Tyler DeLeon die?

  November 13, 2005 in City on Page A1 At the time of his autopsy last January, tiny Tyler DeLeon weighed precisely as much as he had three years earlier: 28 pounds. For months at a time, the 7-year-old …

• Allegations riddle mother’s past

  April 10, 2005 in City on Page A1 On the day before his death in January, a skinny 6-year-old named Tyler Joseph DeLeon made a hole in the screen window of a home in southern Stevens County to …

• CPS was warned about caregiver

  April 5, 2005 in City on Page A1 Last spring, a state worker cut short his investigation at a rural Stevens County foster home after a caregiver approached him with a chisel, according to internal Child Protective Services …

• Records of abuse tossed by state

  April 2, 2005 in City on Page A1 Craig Baird remembers the bruises on the girl’s body. In 1988, he and his wife called Stevens County law enforcement, worried that the girl they were baby-sitting was being abused …

• Boy’s death suspicious

  April 1, 2005 in City on Page A1 On his seventh birthday, a helicopter rushed Tyler DeLeon from southern Stevens County to a Spokane hospital, where he died under circumstances that are now part of a homicide investigation …