The Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested a former child welfare caseworker for falsifying records.
The Orlando Regional of FDLE arrested Jonathan Irizarry, 27, for faking home visit records.
Irizarry worked for the Children’s Home Society of Central Florida, Inc. as a dependency case manager.
He was assigned to supervise Rachel Fryer’s three children.
Irizarry documented that he checked on the children on Jan. 23 and Feb. 6.
He noted the children were free from bruises on one occasion, although a picture taken on Jan. 19 of Fryer’s daughter showed her with a bruised and swollen eye with an arm in a sling.
Postmortem exams showed Fryer’s daughter was healing from several injuries, including cuts, bruises, cigarette burns and bite marks.
Fryer is charged with murder after her daughter was found buried in a shallow grave in Crescent, Florida on Feb 11.
Irizarry was arrested on Friday, Aug. 22, and booked on two counts of falsifying official records that contribute to the bodily harm or death of an individual in the care and custody of a state agency.
He being held at the John E. Polk Correctional facility in Seminole County on $10,000 bond.
WJAX
