Lawmaker blasts gov on Oliver case

Lawmaker blasts gov on Oliver case | Boston Herald:

Gov. Deval Patrick’s insistence that it was individual failures — “not systemic” ones — that allowed a now-missing 5-year-boy to fall through the cracks of the state child welfare system was panned as a hasty assessment that smacks of the administration’s quick-to-downplay reputation, according to one top lawmaker.