Trista Piccola, director of Rhode Island’s embattled Department of Children, Youth and Families, announced Wednesday that she is stepping down.

The news came almost exactly a month after release of an investigation by the state child advocate and a panel of child-care professionals that found that years of ineptitude by the state’s child welfare system led directly to the January death of a 9-year-old Warwick girl.

<p>Trista Piccola, director of Rhode Island&rsquo;s embattled Department of Children, Youth and Families, announced Wednesday that she is stepping down.</p>
<p>The news came almost exactly a month after release of an investigation by the state child advocate and a panel of child-care professionals that found that years of ineptitude by the state&rsquo;s child welfare system led directly to the January death of a 9-year-old Warwick girl.</p>

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