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DCF contractor arrested for failing to report child abuse of Paisley Brown's siblings

Marcus Chen
Managing Editor · Friday, November 6, 2026 at 9:34 PM · 1 min read
DCF contractor arrested for failing to report child abuse of Paisley Brown's siblings — Winter Garden Community news

A woman working as a contractor for the Department of Children and Families (DCF) has been arrested in Marion County for allegedly failing to report child abuse involving the siblings of a 3-year-old girl who was beaten to death earlier this year.Cristina Feliz, who worked out of Kids Central in Ocala, was assigned to the case involving the siblings of Paisley Brown — the 3-year-old killed in Citra in February. Paisley’s siblings were later placed in foster care with Vanessa Pawlicki, who was arrested in September and is accused of abusing a 9-year-old boy by hitting him in the head and pushing him into the ground.What Feliz knew — and didn’t doAccording to Feliz’s arrest report, someone told her they had video of one of the children in Pawlicki’s care being abused. Rather than report it, Feliz told that person to report it themselves. She said she “did not want to get in the middle of it” because the information came from a “third party.”Florida state law requires anyone with knowledg

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