Oklahoma DHS officials re-evaluate use of children's shelters
“Babies should not be in children's shelters.”
National experts say it; state DHS workers agree.
But walk into the Oklahoma City 's state-run Pauline E. Mayer Children's Shelter for abused and neglected children and there they are.
Six babies were being cared for at the shelter one day last month when reporters from The Oklahoman visited.
One of the babies had been there 66 days, incl...
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