PHOENIX — State Sen. Carine Werner’s child safety task force held a stakeholder meeting on Wednesday to institute reforms at the Department of Child Safety after the deaths of three children in recent months.

Emily Pike (14), Rebekah Baptiste (10) and Zariah Dodd (16) were all under the care and supervision of DCS before they died, and many are asking questions about why the agency was not able to find safe situations for the children.

Werner’s task force is zeroing in on some of those answers, particularly for Baptiste who was found severely beaten in Holbrook on July 27.

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