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A child welfare worker was stabbed to death while visiting a home in downstate Illinois Tuesday, and a man who had been living there is facing murder charges.

Deidre Silas, 36, was attacked around 4 p.m. as she was checking on six children, ages 1 to 7 , in a home in Thayer, a small town about 20 miles south of Springfield, according to the Sangamon County sheriff’s office.

Benjamin H. Reed, 32, was arrested just before 6:30 p.m. and was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, the Sangamon County sheriff’s office said.Silas had just begun working for DCFS last August after spending more than seven years with the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice, according to the union that represents state workers.

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