Deadly toll of child abuse

Published: Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at 2:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 28, 2011 at 7:02 p.m.
Herald-Tribune

The annual report compiled by the Florida Child Abuse Death Review Committee is always grim reading. But the information is important.

....Preventive strategies are less expensive than after-the-fact treatment, the committee said. "Florida's taxpayers pay an estimated $64,377 a year to care for an abused or neglected child, while Healthy Families Florida prevents the costs of child abuse and neglect for only $1,671 a year per child," according to the report. FULL STORY