Embattled DHS secretary López to resign amid spotlight on foster care problems

Maryland Department of Human Services Secretary Rafael J. López and other state officials were grilled last year by state legislators over the suicide death of a 16-year-old foster girl in a Baltimore hotel last month and a scathing audit that documented multiple problems with how it cared for children in their custody. (Handout)
Maryland Department of Human Services Secretary Rafael J. López and other state officials were grilled last year by state legislators over the suicide death of a 16-year-old foster girl in a Baltimore hotel last month and a scathing audit that documented multiple problems with how it cared for children in their custody. (Handout)
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Maryland Department of Human Services was rocked by the death of a 16-year-old foster girl in the Baltimore hotel where she had been living, under the watch of a worker under contract to the state

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