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When you suspect abuse but lack evidence to act

My caseload includes three families where I suspect but cannot prove abuse and I lie awake wondering if staying quiet makes me complicit in harm.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You suspect kids are being hurt but can't prove it, and staying silent eats at you.

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