"For weeks afterward, his mother struggled to get him to eat or sleep and exchanged text messages with his foster mother, who offered advice on how he liked to

"For weeks afterward, his mother struggled to get him to eat or sleep and exchanged text messages with his foster mother, who offered advice on how he liked to be cuddled and fed." He seems to be developmentally delayed. He is late to walk on his own and late to speak. What happened in this case was state-inflicted child abuse.