Killing of Logan Marr

Logan Lynn Marr was born October 14, 1995, and died January 31, 2001, at age five while in foster care in Maine. Her mother, Christy M. Baker (also known as Christy Marr, Christy Reposa, and Christy Darling), was a teenager when Logan was born. In 1996, Baker's mother, Kathy Baker, reported her daughter to Maine's Child Protective Services (CPS), part of the state's Department of Human Services (DHS), arguing that Christy Baker lacked the maturity to raise a child. CPS first removed Logan from her mother's care in August 1998, and the girl subsequently lived with three different foster families. Logan was moved in and out of CPS custody over time. DHS had required Baker to cease association with her mother and to have any boyfriends cleared with the agency, conditions with which Baker complied. Baker herself was never accused of directly abusing her daughter.

Sally Ann Schofield, a Maine CPS caseworker from Chelsea, Maine, took Logan Marr into her home as a foster child, along with Logan's sister, Bailey. This arrangement occurred despite DHS's general request that caseworkers not serve as foster parents themselves; Schofield had specifically wished to foster a female child. Schofield left the agency in January 2001.

On January 31, 2001, Logan Marr was found dead in Schofield's home. Schofield initially told authorities that Logan had died from a traumatic accident. Investigators, however, determined that Logan had been bound with duct tape and had died of suffocation. Schofield was subsequently charged and, in 2002, convicted of manslaughter. The presiding judge found that the death had not been willful. Schofield was sentenced to twenty years in prison and was incarcerated at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham, Maine, with an anticipated release on probation date of April 25, 2017. Following Logan's death, custody of her sister Bailey was returned to their mother, Christy Baker.

Logan Marr's death had a significant effect on child welfare policy in Maine. The state's foster care system moved to directly reduce non-family placements, prioritizing the placement of children with relatives when the state determines that a child's immediate family is unable to provide care. The National Coalition for Child Protection Reform has described Marr's death as a pivotal factor driving reform of foster care systems in Maine and in other U.S. states.