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You are here: Home / News / Texas didn’t report hundreds of child abuse, neglect deaths

Texas didn’t report hundreds of child abuse, neglect deaths

January 10, 2015

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas has not publicly reported hundreds of abuse- and neglect-related child deaths since 2010, raising questions about the accuracy of the state’s official fatality count, an Austin American-Statesman investigation into the state’s child protection system has found.

Between 2010 and 2014, the Department of Family and Protective Services did not publicly report 655 child abuse-related fatalities, even though the department confirmed that those children had been mistreated prior to their deaths. Because Child Protective Services caseworkers decided that mistreatment or abuse did not directly cause those fatalities, state law does not require the agency to publicly reveal those numbers. [Read Full Article]

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