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Suspects in ChildNet identity theft were hired despite extensive criminal records

By Brian Haas and Bill Hirschman


South Florida Sun-Sentinel


Posted
04/13/07

ChildNet officials acknowledged Thursday that two employees fired after several thefts at the agency had been hired despite background checks that showed the pair were longtime felons and one had been convicted of manslaughter. Fort Lauderdale police say one of the men, Brady Grant, 35, of Fort Lauderdale, is a suspect in the theft of a laptop containing personal information on 12,000 Broward County applicants to ChildNet programs, most of them applying to be foster or adoptive parents. He and Steven R. Williams, 47, of Coral Springs, are suspects in an earlier theft of thousands of dollars worth of gift cards that were supposed to go to foster families, police said. More