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Boy's Suicide Reveals Flaws in Child Welfare System

By Margie Menzel

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Tallahassee, Fl – The state's review of the apparent suicide of seven-year-old Gabriel Myers is exposing serious shortcomings in the child welfare system. But as Margie Menzel reports, the child's shocking death may also have created a will for change.