Child abuse getting worse during pandemic.

Teachers and the usual others aren't able to report apparent child abuse, so the first people who see cases are the emergency room doctors, sometimes too late.

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Across the country, from California to Iowa to Massachusetts, child abuse reports have plummeted since the virus arrived. In the nation’s capital, hotline reports of abuse and neglect between mid-March and mid-April were 62 percent lower than in the same period last year, according to the D.C. Child and Family Services Agency. Reports to child protective services in Maryland have fallen just as far, and in Virginia, referrals from school staffers have dipped by 94 percent. The cases surfacing often involve children so severely injured they end up in the emergency room and intensive care unit. In some hospitals, they are dying at an unusually high rate.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/educa...s-coronavirus/

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