Remembrance day for dead children
Every April, the tombstones come out, blue wooden markers for boys and pink for girls.
That is because it is Child Abuse Prevention Month. The tombstones that mark local children killed by abuse or neglect go with Operation Breakthrough’s ...
Midtown program accredited for child abuse prevention
Cornerstones of Care has been accredited as a provider of high quality home visitation services, which a national organization says helps to prevent child abuse.
Midtown nonprofit Cornerstones of Care’s home visitation program is the first ...
“Shot, beaten, burned:” Prosecutor calls child victim rate alarming
For whatever reasons, many children have been recent victims of violence in the metropolitan area.
On Friday, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker noted the grim trend in a media release.
Our children have been shot, beaten, burned and ...
Who’s talking