Preliminary data shows reports of child abuse around the U.S. have plunged during the pandemic. Experts fear the amount of abuse has actually risen.
Two days later, Amari became the fourth child to die of abuse in Fort Worth this year, a city that police say sees an average of two such cases in a year. The hospital that treated him said nine children were admitted for abuse-related injuries between March 17 and the days following Amari’s death.
Amari’s death was ruled a homicide, but his case is still under investigation and no arrests have been made. His grandmother, Kiceshi Iaymon, blames his foster parents for Amari’s death, but they deny harming him. Deondrick Foley, one of his caregivers, said he doesn’t know how Amari was injured. Foley said he saw the injuries after picking Amari up from daycare, and then took him to the hospital.
Investigations into maltreatment can take months, meaning agencies don’t yet have complete data on how many substantiated cases of abuse occurred this spring, even for cases that were reported.The lack of information surrounding abuse and neglect during the pandemic adds urgency to what experts called a ‘paradigm shift’ happening in the child welfare field: shifting resources away from intervention and more toward prevention.
Implementation of the Family First legislation is still in its early phases, and not all prevention programs are With the pandemic putting agencies at risk of tightening their budgets, line items that are not reimbursable by the federal government are usually the first to go, Olender said, which is why it’s so important for federal funds to be available for prevention programs.
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