One year ago, just as New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez was beginning his investigation of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, I wrote a column for Source NM published under the headline “Torrez’s CYFD investigation will fail if it leaves people out.”
He left people out. The investigation failed.
The result is a report that is likely to worsen problems it highlights; it may even trigger events that lead to more children dying. …