Child-safety agency is facing the budget ax - San Antonio Express-News
As lawmakers grappling with a budget crisis consider possible deep cuts to Child Protective Services, the safety net aimed at catching abused and neglected children in Texas, a new report shows child deaths from such maltreatment reached 17 in Bexar County in 2010 — one death shy of the record set in 2005.
Agency spokesman Patrick Crimmins said child fatalities from abuse and neglect tend to fluctuate from year to year, often for “inexplicable” reasons. He and others note that statewide, such deaths were down in the last fiscal year from 280 to 227, a sign of improvement.
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In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
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