I find it rather disturbing the claim that children in foster care are six times more likely to face abuse of some sort then in custody of their parents. What happened to this child is as tragic as the death of three infants in my surrounding area in the last six months at the hands of their parents. Looking at the article about the scalding case there were more articles attributing death/injury at the hands of parents in that same locality then at the hands of foster parents. One article highlight that 80 percent of deaths of children in Arizona come at that the hands of neglect by parents. I often see articles posted coming from out of Arizona concerning foster care, I tend to believe that they have problems. Considering it's a warm state where a lot of transients congregate to, a high rate of illegal immigration and dealing with the opiate crisis has dealt Arizona more than it can handle but I don't think necessarily that what's going on there is highly reflective of the system overall across the US. From what I often see here in my state is that children are more likely to die at the hands of their parents then at the hands of the foster care system.

https://tucson.com/news/local/crime/th-person-arrested-in-infant-s-death-facing-abuse-murder/article_e5231f24-0cc8-11e7-833d-9b00a96a4de5.html

https://tucson.com/news/local/crime/tucson-woman-convicted-of-murder-in-beating-death-of-son/article_f4aa584c-0e5b-11e7-8b3f-cf1d0a186bd9.html

Rimsza cautions that the slight improvement in that category doesn’t mean anything significant yet. There will need to be some fundamental changes in Arizona before there’s significant improvement in those areas, she said, especially when it comes to child neglect, which was noted as a direct cause or contributing factor in 80 percent of the maltreatment deaths.

Neglect will continue “until we address the poverty and substance use in our state,” she said. Child deaths related to maltreatment increased 16 percent between 2011 and 2015, she said.

Parents lacking access to child care and other resources contributes to those high rates, she said.

Of the deaths that were related to substance use, marijuana was identified as a factor in 30 percent of the deaths, alcohol in 25 percent and opiates in 10 percent, the report shows. Methamphetamine was found in 12 percent.

“Many of these deaths were due to neglect problems and the substance use was a contributing factor,” she said. “Many times people were using multiple drugs.”

https://tucson.com/news/local/report-of-child-deaths-in-arizona-last-year-were-preventable/article_4a865335-c9c9-5203-9af8-9b7fc319959d.html

How about when parents and relatives lie to authorities and it leads to death:

https://tucson.com/news/who-failed-baby-adam/article_bebb8b04-e1d5-53ae-acb6-e7af09ed4e6a.html