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Change in law doubles abuse cases

Officials: increase in number of cases hindering efforts

By Mike Cronin / The Bulletin
March 3, 2002

From 1997 to 2000, reports and confirmed cases of child abuse in Deschutes County more than doubled.

But a closer look at Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) data reveal that increase is due more to a law that went into effect July 1, 1998, which expanded the definition of what constitutes....

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