OK Lied About Abuse Stats?
On January - 11 - 2011
Children’s Rights group skeptical of improved Oklahoma child welfare statistics
Attorneys assisting a national children’s rights organization say they are investigating whether officials with the state Department of Human Services are endangering Oklahoma children by cutting back on child abuse investigations to make the state’s child welfare statistics look better. “We’re concerned that instead of fixing the underlying problems in the system, DHS may be manipulating numbers and dangerously restricting the number of children coming into state custody,” said Tulsa attorney Paul DeMuro. DeMuro is one of the Oklahoma lawyers who have joined New York-based Children’s Rights in suing DHS officials in a class-action federal court lawsuit over the treatment of children in state custody.
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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