Mayor releases phone call tapes in Banita Jacks case

Mayor Adrian Fenty Monday released tapes of two phone calls from last April, one to the Child and Family Services hotline and a second to 311 nonemergency communications, which demonstrate the failures of CFSA to take the case of Banita Jacks seriously.

Jacks was charged last week with the murders of her four daughters. The woman who made both calls, a social worker at daughter Brittany’s charter school, urged CFSA to take action immediately, citing Banita Jacks’ apparent mental illness and the possibility she was holding her children hostage.