Grandmother Michele Jonchuck holds a photo of Phoebe Jonchuck during a press conference after the funeral for Phoebe. The girl died after being dropped from a bridge in January. JAY CONNER/STAFF
TALLAHASSEE — Barely three months after 5-year-old Phoebe Jonchuck’s father dropped her 60 feet from a bridge into Tampa Bay, lawmakers could soon vote on new legislation aimed at preventing deaths like hers.
What will be considered on the House floor is not a major reform, however, but a fine-tuning of a bill passed last year, also intended to prevent child deaths.
Lawmakers at the time approved a measure to hire an extra 270 child protective investigators and form “Critical Incident Rapid Response Teams” to look into child abuse deaths. [Read Full Article]
