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Why child welfare experts fear a spike of abuse during COVID-19

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Written by PBS News Hour on April 6, 2020

Over the course of five consecutive days last month, Dr. Jamye Coffman saw seven children and infants who had been abused so severely that they required hospitalization at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas.

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