🔗: https://l.mlive.com/8TQJqW Timothy Ferguson, a 15-year-old with special needs, died in July 2022 after suffering unimaginable torture and abuse. He was 15 and weighed just 69 pounds. Two family members have been convicted in his death, but questions remain. MLive/Muskegon Chronicle spent months sifting through thousands of documents, police reports and social services records to see how holes in the child welfare system and the failures of Timothy's parents let this happen. | The Muskegon Ch

The tragic death of Timothy Ferguson shocked Michigan in July 2022. Timothy, a 15-year-old boy with autism and significant speech and motor impairments, was starved and exposed to extreme cold by his mother, Shanda Vander Ark, and older brother, Paul Ferguson. He weighed just 69 pounds when he died, having been denied proper care and subjected to severe neglect and abuse. In early 2024, his mother was convicted of murder and child abuse and given life in prison without parole plus a long additio