Flawed child abuse registries hamper national effort
On April - 26 - 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — Fighting child abuse is a cause with universal support. Yet a push to create a national database of abusers, as authorized by Congress in 2006, is barely progressing as serious flaws come to light in the state registries that would be the basis for a national list.
In North Carolina, a court ruled last month that its registry is unconstitutional because alleged abusers had no chance to defend themselves before being listed.
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---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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