State launches investigation of foster care death

(WAUPUN, Wis.)- State officials are investigating whether child welfare workers were thorough enough in their background check of a foster home where two brothers were injured, one fatally.

The State Department of Health and Family Services will investigate the placement as it reviews the circumstances of the death of three-year-old Camron Gardner.

Camron and his two-year-old brother, Ethan Schwartz, suffered abdominal injuries May 5. Camron died of internal bleeding.

The foster father, Shane Marquardt, is charged with first-degree reckless homicide and first-degree reckless injury.

The Department of Health and Family Services is responsible for reviewing whether Dodge County officials followed federal and state guidelines in placing the boys with the Marquardts.