September 2, 2010
Team effort key in child-abuse prosecution system
By Karen Middleton
karen@athensnews-courier.com
— An African proverb says, “It takes a village to raise a child,” but it takes a multidisciplinary team of law enforcement and social agencies to treat childhood victims of sex abuse and to prosecute pedophiles.
The National Child Advocacy Center and its regional offices, such as the one in Athens, were set up to streamline a system that can sometimes subject a young sex-abuse victim to as many as 15 separate interviews.
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