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Profiling A Supervisor Accused In Young Girl's Death

September 16, 2011
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Michele Norris interviews Jennifer Gonnerman, author of the article "The Knock at the Door" in the Sept. 19 issue of New York Magazine. The piece is about a caseworker supervisor being prosecuted for negligent homicide for the beating death of a 4 year old. The child was only 18 pounds when she was allegedly beaten to death by her mother in 2010. Gonnerman says the case has implications for overworked caseworkers everywhere.

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