INDIANAPOLIS The family of 5-year-old Kinsleigh Welty has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Indiana Department of Child Services, claiming their failures led to the child's death in April.

Brian Welty, Kinsleigh's paternal grandfather, filed the complaint in Marion County Superior Court. The lawsuit targets DCS, 11 individual DCS employees, and three family members charged in Kinsleigh's death.

The complaint alleges DCS workers repeatedly failed to investigate reports of abuse and neglect against Kinsleigh's mother, Toni McClure, despite her prior felony conviction and multiple substantiated abuse cases.

DCS reportedly received five separate reports of abuse and neglect between November 2023 and January 2024.

WRTV previously reported that Kinsleigh's paternal grandparent

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