The Oswego County Department of Social Services needs to be held accountable for its failure to protect a vulnerable adult.

At least seven times since January, people called DSS to report ill treatment of Danielle Killmore, a person with developmental disabilities. No one ever came to investigate the squalid conditions Killmore was enduring in her town of Hastings home: trash, rodents, no running water.

They wouldn’t even come when a state trooper called in July to report finding Killmore near death in a sweltering shed, with flies coming out of her mouth and a bucket for a toilet.

When the county workers responsible for protecting vulnerable adults wouldn’t act, State Police Sgt. Aaron Eastwood did. He gathered the evidence and the legal paperwork necessary to get the county named as

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