Court of Appeals of Washington February 20, 2003, No. 19517-1-III (Dalton v. State)

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Schultheis, J. —

In 1994, four-year-old Dirk Dalton was brutally beaten and killed by the foster father with whom he was temporarily residing while his mother was in a drug rehabilitation program. In the week prior to his death, Dirk’s foster parents had brought him first to the office of pediatrician Dr.