CHARLOTTE — Local leaders are in Raleigh on Thursday to answer questions from the House Oversight Committee after the death of six-year-old Dominique Moody.
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In December 2025, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Moody was found dead inside an east Charlotte home covered in scars and showing clear signs of long-term abuse.
Dominique’s three caretakers remain in jail without bond. They are all charged with murder.
State investigators launched a review of Mecklenburg County’s DSS system.
UNC Chapel Hill professor Emily Putnam-Hornstein talked about a model some states use to flag the risk of child abuse.
“I want to be clear that these tools do not require perfect data,” she said Thursday morning. “As I mentioned, Allegheny’s model integrated cross-system information. In Los Angeles, they’re only using child welfare records. And I will say we’re using a system that’s been built in 1998.”
Channel 9’s Glenn Counts is at the hearing on Thursday and will have live reports online and on Eyewitness News starting at 5 p.m. about the allegations against Meck County DSS.