Step-mother pleads guilty to child abuse
On June - 24 - 2010
A Catawba woman was sentenced to a year in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to child abuse charges relating to her stepdaughter, officials said.
Meagan Rhea Shelley, 22, pleaded guilty Wednesday to unlawful neglect of a child in connection with a toddler who was taken to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte in March with a skull fracture and internal injuries, said 16th Circuit Asst. Solicitor Jennifer Colton.
---------------------------------------------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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