“Shaffer spoke to the Appeal from the Tulsa County jail, but she was transferred soon after to a state prison to serve out her 18-month sentence. Her crime? Permitting child abuse. Oklahoma, like many states, has a “failure to protect” law that allows the prosecution of a caregiver who ‘knows or reasonably should know that the child will be placed at risk of abuse’.“

The Appeal

December 18, 2018