On June 4, in Indianapolis, Crystal Martin admitted before a court to giving her 3-year-old son, Johnathan Johnson, two 100mg pills of Zoloft, an antidepressant drug, before leaving him unsupervised to play near a creek, where he was found face down in 4 feet of water. Three Heritage Ranch residents were recently charged by San […]
RON CUFF
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A hidden disease
The awareness month may be over, but it’s never too late to break dangerous cycles of abuse
April was Child Abuse Prevention Month. If the appearance last spring of 400 suspected cases of swine flu in the entire United States constituted a potential “pandemic,” what do you call something that impacted more than 2,347 children in San Luis Obispo, Ventura, and Santa Barbara County last year? That “something” is called child abuse […]