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Letter: ‘Brighter Childhoods’

Editor, Gazette-Journal:

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and the Gloucester Department of Social Services is partnering with Prevent Child Abuse Virginia and the Virginia Coalition for Child Abuse Prevention, to spread the message that everyone can help great childhoods happen in their community.  

This year’s theme: “Building Brighter Childhoods,” promotes the idea that everyone has a role to play in helping to prevent child abuse and neglect in their community and the Commonwealth. In Virginia, a child dies as a result of abuse and neglect every 9.6 days. Every 76 minutes, a child in Virginia is abused or neglected.

During the last year, Gloucester County Department of Social Services received 887 reports of child abuse and neglect within our county alone.  Of these reports, 434 of these cases had involvement with child protective services. Two hundred and forty six children were victims of abuse or neglect in  the Gloucester community l...

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