(HARRISBURG, Pa.) – Picture a bustling classroom full of kids, 33 of them to be exact. Next, picture that classroom emptied – all that young life, all of those 33 futures, gone.
That’s how many children died in Pennsylvania in 2012 from child abuse – beaten, shaken, attacked, neglected.
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, when the Pennsylvania Family Support Alliance (PFSA), the state’s lead organization in helping families prevent abuse and in training people to recognize and report abuse, will be working to put a spotlight on the issue.