L.A. Child Welfare System Under Scrutiny
On September - 8 - 2010
Secrecy About Abuse Deaths Stirs a Storm
The department that investigates child abuse for Los Angeles County is under attack for allegedly hiding information about children who died under its watch – highlighting a perpetual and sensitive issue for public child protection agencies around the country.
As some of those agencies have found over the years, withholding information about the death of a child sometimes fuels its own controversy.
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http://www.youthtoday.org/publication/article.cfm?article_id=4284
---------------------------------------------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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