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A father, a mother, a baby and reams of redacted documents from Santa Clara County’s Department of Family and Children’s Services tell the story of the tragic decisions that preceded the fentanyl death of 3-month-old Phoenix Castro, leaving her father David Castro in jail and her mother Emily De La Cerda to also succumb to a fentanyl overdose four months later. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
A father, a mother, a baby and reams of redacted documents from Santa Clara County’s Department of Family and Children’s Services tell the story of the tragic decisions that preceded the fentanyl death of 3-month-old Phoenix Castro, leaving her father David Castro in jail and her mother Emily De La Cerda to also succumb to a fentanyl overdose four months later. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
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Since the Bay Area News Group broke the story a year ago, some of Santa Clara County's youngest children are safer now, advocates say, but a lack of accountability from leaders about what contributed to baby Phoenix’s death has been a morale-crusher for staff now tasked with implementing sweeping changes.

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