Massachusetts Department of Children and Families

A 3-year-old girl survived a fall from a roof in Avon, Massachusetts, on Friday, officials said. A passing driver spotted the girl sitting on a second-story roof of a building on W. Main Street near Johnson Road and called police about 11:19 a.m., according to Avon’s police and fire departments. When the agencies got to the building, they learned...

There are more than 3,000 children in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families who have been in the system for two years or longer — difficult cases that must balance parental rights with what’s in the best interest of children. The NBC10 Boston Investigators looked into the troubling case of a foster child we’ll call Rose….