Florida's child welfare agency recently settled a lawsuit filed by six foster children who were physically and sexually abused by their adoptive parents. The lawsuit alleged that workers with the Department of Children & Families wrongly placed the siblings with Frank and Jackie Lynch, who had a history of child abuse. According to the suit, the Lynches videotaped the children being abused and then forced them to drink cough syrup to make them sleep. Plaintiff attorneys argued that it took the department nearly two years to send a caseworker to the parents' residence for a routine evaluation of the living conditions. The agency is already facing heated criticism for its role in the now well-known case of Rilya Wilson, the 5-year-old foster child who was missing for over a year before department officials became aware she was gone.