Children's Beating Deaths Expose City's Lapses.

The article reports on a series of fatalities involving children who were the subject of warnings to child welfare authorities or the police in New York City. Topics mentioned include examinations by city officials on how investigators were slow to follow up or might have closed a child abuse case too soon, the mission of the Instant Response Team to protect children from mistreatment, and appointment of a captain to supervise child abuse cases in the police Special Victims Division.