Judge Erik Pitchal’s warped mindset led to baby Ella Vitalis’ death

Ella Vitalis was only three weeks old when her parents brought her to the hospital with two broken ankles, a fractured skull and a brain hemorrhage.

The Administration for Children’s Services took Ella and her brother, who was a year older , into foster care because they were at “substantial risk of death” That risk didn’t seem to matter to Judge Erik Pitchal , who decided to reunite these children with their family.

Pitchal proudly reports that the judge “thanked me for my integrity” Pitchal's idea of family preservation is complete nonsense.

Judge Pitchal thinks he is expressing humility when he talks about how “I was a twenty -something white man and did not think I was in much of a position to say what was best’ for most of my clients, he says.

Pitchal’s privileged upbringing means he probably can’t imagine what it's like to be a child trapped in a home with abusive drug addicts, for example.