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Article: Boy's doctor missed abuse: Child Protective Services report faults DeLeon family physician.
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- The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2007
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Byline: Thomas Clouse
Jul. 28--The family doctor who treated Tyler DeLeon didn't recognize or report the pattern of abuse that killed him, according to a state investigation released last month.
Child Protective Services investigators concluded that Dr. David Fregeau -- in addition to Tyler's adoptive mother, Carole DeLeon, and the state itself -- failed to protect the boy as he starved.
Carole DeLeon, 52, recently was sentenced to six years in prison after entering an Alford plea to criminally mistreating Tyler and another boy in her care, Steven Miller.
Fregeau's role became public last month with the release of the findings of CPS ...