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Table 4-6: Fatalities by Prior Contact with CPS, 1999 SDC

States Child Victims Who Died as a Result of Maltreatment Child Victims Who Died from Maltreatment and Whose Families Received Family Preservation Services in the Past 5 Years Child Victims Who Died from Maltreatment and Had Been Reunited With Their Families in the Past 5 Years

Alabama

29

5

1

Alaska

4

3

0

Arizona

8

0

0

Arkansas

9

   

California

33

   

Colorado

32

2

2

Connecticut

3

   

Delaware

3

0

0

District of Columbia

5

0

0

Florida

57

13

1

Georgia

42

   

Hawaii

5

5

 

Idaho

4

1

0

Illinois

80

   

Indiana

41

   

Iowa

11

0

1

Kansas

6

1

0

Kentucky

5

0

1

Louisiana

21

1

0

Maine

3

 

0

Maryland

     

Massachusetts

     

Michigan

48

12

3

Minnesota

28

   

Mississippi

7

0

0

Missouri

36

1

0

Montana

4

0

0

Nebraska

     

Nevada

7

   

New Hampshire

3

0

0

New Jersey

29

0

3

New Mexico

7

0

 

New York

79

   

North Carolina

21

0

0

North Dakota

0

0

0

Ohio

54

18

0

Oklahoma

47

5

1

Oregon

18

2

3

Pennsylvania

50

   

Rhode Island

4

0

0

South Carolina

13

0

0

South Dakota

3

3

 

Tennessee

16

   

Texas

143

8

1

Utah

7

0

0

Vermont

4

0

0

Virginia

36

   

Washington

6

 

0

West Virginia

1

0

0

Wisconsin

9

   

Wyoming

1

   

Total

1082

80

17

Percent of Fatalities

 

12.5%

2.7%

Number

48

32

31

Note. Percentage of victims for each of the two types of prior contact is based only on the fatalities in States that reported prior family preservation services (n=639) or prior reunification (n=633), respectively.