The Lebanon County district attorney’s criminal investigation into whether the county’s Children and Youth Services agency failed to protect children in its care could be limited by an anticipated Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling in a similar case from Lackawanna County.

District Attorney Pier Hess Graf announced on Oct. 29, less than a week before she will stand for reelection, that she was looking into allegations that CYS, through inaction and neglect, failed in multiple cases to protect children entrusted to its care.

While Graf gave no hint as to what specific criminal offenses she suspects CYS caseworkers may have committed, similar cases involving child protective agencies in other Pennsylvania counties have involved prosecutions for endangering the welfare of children, a felony

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