{
  "id": 218876,
  "title": "Social services face hard questions over missed red flags in boy’s starvation death",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/06/social-services-face-hard-questions-over-missed-red-flags-in-boys",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-06T12:30:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3363182/social-services-face-hard-questions-over-missed-red-flags-boys-starvation-death"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The fate of a five-year-old boy starved to death by his mother, who had a history of drug abuse, could have been different had social workers noticed he was “just skin and bones”, a Hong Kong judge lamented in her ruling. Just three months before the boy died in September 2022, a worker from the Social Welfare Department handling the case visited the 37-year-old mother at home and reported…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}