More than a year after Sophia Mason’s death, new records released by Hayward police show that officers picked up on the dangers she faced — dangers that Alameda County social workers ha…
Newly-obtained documents in the killing of Sophia Mason show that Hayward police – after getting a missing person’s report about the 8-year-old in March 2022 – swiftly determined what Alameda County social workers had failed to see for more than a year: The girl was in danger and needed immediate help.
The revelations also underscore emerging concerns about systemic issues within Alameda County’s child welfare agency, which compares poorly to its peers across California in meeting state requirements for timely action to protect the vulnerable children under its charge. Samantha Johnson at a court appearance in the Merced County Courthouse on Monday, March 27 in Merced. Johnson is accused of child abuse and murder in the death of her 8 year old daughter Sophia Mason.
“If a parent is receiving multiple allegations of abuse that are being called into a CPS hotline from various different sources — as we see in this case — that should be a red flag — a huge red flag,” said Carly Sanchez, an attorney who is representing Sophia’s grandmother in a suit against the county.
Another concern for Hayward police officers was DCFS’s response to a visit Sophia and Samantha made to a Kaiser Permanente hospital in San Leandro on Sept. 30, 2021. Clinicians at the hospital noted that the girl had suspicious bruising across her back, buttocks, hip and thigh, as well as apparent cigarette burns on her arms. None of those injuries looked like they could have come from a car crash or from falling off monkey bars, as Sophia’s mother claimed.
According to its own records, DCFS also waited six days to inform police in San Leandro, where Sophia then lived, of the clinicians’ concerns — a violation of state law that requires county child protective services to report abuse allegations to local law enforcement within 36 hours. But San Leandro police say they have no record of any reports regarding Sophia.
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