Andrea Gallo
Baton Rouge Advocate
Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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Grand jury brings tougher charges against juvenile defendant in LSU student rape case
A grand jury has charged a 17-year-old as an adult for the assault of Madison Brooks in the hours before the LSU student's death last month, indicting him on first-degree → Read More
Suspect in Madison Brooks case faces another arrest for a third rape, documents say
After being arrested in two separate rape cases including the case of LSU student Madison Brooks and a juvenile victim in Livingston Parish, 18-year-old Kaivon Washington now faces charges in → Read More
Madison Brooks isn't alive to testify in her rape case. Here's how that affects prosecuting it.
In the coming months, prosecutors are expected to argue that LSU student Madison Brooks was raped by two men as two more looked on after she left Tigerland on a → Read More
Lawyers for Madison Brooks rape suspects claim consent, but some see 'wackadoodle defense'
Attorneys for the young men accused of raping an LSU student before she was fatally struck by a car sought Friday to cast doubt on physical evidence in the case → Read More
For survivors, Madison Brooks case shows dark side of LSU, Tigerland: 'continuing to happen'
As Samantha Brennan pored over the details of Madison Brooks’ recent rape and death after a night in Tigerland, she was struck by the similarities between her own case from → Read More
For LSU sexual assault survivors, Madison Brooks' rape has eerie parallels
As Samantha Brennan pored over the details of Madison Brooks’ recent rape and death after a night in Tigerland, she was struck by the similarities between her own case from → Read More
How Bob Dean raided nursing home bank accounts while residents suffered after Hurricane Ida
For Bob Dean, 2021 was the year to cash in. → Read More
Warehouse where nursing home patients died charged $1M rent. Bob Dean pocketed it, feds say.
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint Thursday against embattled Louisiana nursing home magnate Bob Dean, alleging that Dean misspent and misallocated $4 million from his nursing homes, lining → Read More
Child abuse, neglect cases remain high as Louisiana aims to fill hundreds of caseworker jobs
Child welfare officials removed more than 50 endangered children in Baton Rouge and New Orleans from their homes last month, they said Wednesday, even as they struggled to stabilize a → Read More
How do other states protect children? Louisiana is an outlier without ombudsman, transparency
Louisiana’s child welfare system has been rocked by the deaths of multiple children this year, leading to legislative hearings, the resignation of the agency's leader and questions about what could → Read More
Amid turmoil in state's child welfare system, acting secretary promoted to permanent job
Gov. John Bel Edwards announced late Wednesday that Terri Porche Ricks will be Louisiana's next secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services after she started the job last → Read More
Les Miles and LSU were asked to pay $2.15 million after student’s sexual harassment case
Newly surfaced documents in a lawsuit against LSU show that a former student who accused former LSU football coach Les Miles of sexual harassment in 2013 requested that he and → Read More
Top deputy at Louisiana's child welfare department to retire amid agency crisis
A top deputy at the state Department of Children and Family Services has announced her retirement, a week after the agency's leader announced her own departure amid a public firestorm → Read More
Governor says baby's fentanyl death was 'absolute failure' from child welfare officials
Gov. John Bel Edwards broke his silence Wednesday on the recent death of baby Jahrei Paul, who died from fentanyl one week after state child welfare officials received an urgent → Read More
Baby's fentanyl death after missed warnings comes amid 13% increase in child fatalities
Amid outrage over the recent fentanyl deaths of two Baton Rouge children despite warnings to child welfare workers, Department of Children and Family Services Secretary Marketa Garner Walters said Monday → Read More
After 'gut-wrenching' death of baby, some lawmakers call for child welfare leadership change
Lawmakers and a civil rights lawyer said Friday that they are furious — and need more answers — about a 20-month-old’s fentanyl death in Baton Rouge one week after child → Read More
Baby died from fentanyl 10 days after Louisiana social workers were warned about family
10 days after the Louisiana Department of Child and Family Services received a call warning about a family's drug addiction, 1-year-old Jahrei Paul died of a fentanyl overdose. → Read More
Louisiana has lower bar for validating child abuse claims than many states, new audit finds
Louisiana uses a lower standard of evidence to determine that an allegation of child abuse is valid when compared to more than a dozen other states, according to an audit → Read More
Louisiana is flush with cash. Why is child welfare still 'woefully underfunded'?
A 4-year-old forced to chug a bottle of whiskey. → Read More
Huge caseloads, high stakes: The dire situation Louisiana’s child welfare workers face
Fourteen hours after his work day began, Devance Ball’s phone rang. → Read More