Editor’s note: This article contains descriptions of child abuse. If you suspect a child is being abused or neglected, call the Indiana Department of Child Services' Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline at 1-800-800-5556. The hotline is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Every day, the grandfather of 5-year-old Kinsleigh Welty questions how the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) could have failed on multiple occasions to notice the abuse happening to his granddaughter.

The signs of abuse were obvious, Brian Welty said; she was "mostly skin and bone" by the time the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department found her inside a closet in her mother's southwest side home near death on April 9, 2024. Kinsleigh was forced to live in the closet with little food and wa

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