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Massachusetts to Pay $10M After DCF Sent Boy, 14, Back to Father Who Starved Him
November 2, 2026
Massachusetts will pay $10 million to settle claims that DCF returned a 14-year-old Fall River boy to a father a court had found unfit, where he starved to death.
















