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Vigil Honors Westchester County Social Worker Maria Coto
Westchester County social workers gathered Thursday to honor one of their own who was beaten to death on the job.
Westchester County social workers gathered Thursday to honor one of their own who was beaten to death on the job.
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Maria Coto died June 19th, weeks after being beaten by a man after she mistakenly knocked on his door while trying to visit a Department of Social Services client. Her death at age 56 came as a devastating shock to everyone at DSS.
"We don't want to think about what happened to Maria. We want to focus on the Maria that her friends knew, her colleagues knew, as well as her CSEA family," Hattie Adams, president of CSEA Unit 9200, said.
