Post by Logan on Mar 7, 2016 5:28:09 GMT -6
A Missouri law to protect children from abuse by children spurs hundreds of hotline calls
Last year, after testifying before Missouri legislators about her daughter’s alleged sexual abuse by another child, Becky Wekenborg’s Facebook page began to ping with messages from strangers asking for help.
She knew then, well before the bill expanding the scope of the Children’s Division was passed into law, that the state might be tackling something bigger than policymakers projected.
“Until people started contacting me, I didn’t realize that there was such a big problem,” she said. “I was just amazed at all these people who reached out to me who wanted advice and knew my name because of what my daughter had been through.”
In August, the new state law went into effect mandating that the Children’s Division perform family assessments when it receives child abuse hotline calls alleging inappropriate sexual behavior perpetrated by children on other children.
Read more: www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-missouri-law-to-protect-children-from-abuse-by-children/article_46785ea3-dc45-5640-84f3-8843b04a812f.html
Last year, after testifying before Missouri legislators about her daughter’s alleged sexual abuse by another child, Becky Wekenborg’s Facebook page began to ping with messages from strangers asking for help.
She knew then, well before the bill expanding the scope of the Children’s Division was passed into law, that the state might be tackling something bigger than policymakers projected.
“Until people started contacting me, I didn’t realize that there was such a big problem,” she said. “I was just amazed at all these people who reached out to me who wanted advice and knew my name because of what my daughter had been through.”
In August, the new state law went into effect mandating that the Children’s Division perform family assessments when it receives child abuse hotline calls alleging inappropriate sexual behavior perpetrated by children on other children.
Read more: www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/a-missouri-law-to-protect-children-from-abuse-by-children/article_46785ea3-dc45-5640-84f3-8843b04a812f.html