Philadelphia foster mother charged in 10-year-old's death has troubling past, docs say

A 10-year-old was murdered, allegedly at the hands of a woman who should have been on a restricted list because of past allegations of horrific child abuse.Caprice Williams is accused of murdering 10-year-old Malayshia Alford and leaving her body in South Jersey. Williams, a Philadelphia public school teacher, has a troubling past.In a 2021 lawsuit, Williams was accused of beating and starving a child inside her Simpson Street home so badly that the child nearly died. The suit was settled out of court in 2024.The investigators' own words, according to court documents, Williams should "never be used as a foster parent for other children in the future.""Under no circumstance was Malaysia supposed to be placed in Caprice Williams' home," Nadeem Bezar, an attorney at Kline and Specter, said.Despite an investigation revealing that Williams shouldn't be a foster parent again, a DHS subcontractor in July of 2025 sent Malayshia to live with Williams on North Simpson Street."She was placed in t