PA Abuse Hot Line Missed Calls
PA CHILD ABUSE HOT LINE MISSED TOO MANY CALLS
It is outrageous and unacceptable that Pennsylvania has a child abuse hot line that routinely “misses” calls from people trying to report neglected, beaten or sexually abused children.Nearly 10 percent of callers to the statewide hot line last year failed to deliver their tips to officials who might have intervened and saved a life or a lifetime of psychological turmoil. Through November of this year, according to the state Department of Public Welfare, 10,805 calls to the phone number did not get through.
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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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