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Chapter 20 - THE OTHER CHILDRENThe blue folder named twelve children.

Investigators contacted their families.

Seven agreed to speak.

One mother described her diabetic son returning from Harrington care with dangerously high glucose.

Staff claimed he refused insulin.

He said staff withheld it after he tried to call home.

Another father said his daughter with epilepsy had a seizure after missing medication.

Harrington used the seizure to request extended placement.

A third family found restraint marks.

They complained.

County records classified the allegations as:

UNSUBSTANTIATED.

Approved by Malcolm Pierce.

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The case was no longer about Emma.

It was about a system that learned medically fragile children were profitable when adults controlled the paperwork.

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