unsubstantiated claims

Child Protective Services case summaries released Wednesday discussing the agency's involvement with three slain Tucson children raise new questions, in at least one case, about its actions to keep the children safe. In March 2006, the mother of Ariana and Tyler Payne sought help from police in getting her children back from their father, Christopher Matthew Payne. Police and CPS refused to enforce her court custody order after CPS said the mother, Jamie Hallam, was being investigated for neglect. When the allegation was proved unsubstantiated in April 2006, CPS did not retrieve the children, and Hallam's family members say they were never notified.