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The Nittany Nightmare

Just one week ago I used this space to note a BBC report on the epi­demic of child abuse in Amer­ica which stressed the fact that only vig­i­lance and report­ing by the pub­lic can help stop the cycle of vio­lence against chil­dren. Our child pro­tec­tion ser­vices case­work­ers and police inves­ti­ga­tors do a spec­tac­u­lar job of inves­ti­gat­ing abuse after it has occurred but we per­pet­u­ate that abuse if we see the signs of it and fail to report it.

A major epidemic

You know that you have a sub­stan­tial domes­tic prob­lem when news agen­cies an ocean away take note of it. It caught my atten­tion, there­fore, when the British Broad­cast­ing Cor­po­ra­tion recently com­pleted a report titled, “Major Epi­demic: The Untold Story of Child Abuse in the U.S.”

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