Now that a jury has awarded the estate of Connre Dixon the 11-year-old killed by her foster father, Paul Efaw $600,000 in a wrongful death lawsuit, residents have to ask themselves: Is it over, or is this the calm before yet another storm?
The Huron County Department of Job and Family Services (HCDJFS) should be synonymous with positive words and phrases like "hope," "rebuilding" and "making a difference." Unfortunately, because of the very public disasters of the Gravelle and Efaw cases, the words most associated with the agency are "disgraced," "embattled" and "beleaguered."