Jill Lepore, Baby Doe: Why Can’t We Stop Child Abuse? The New Yorker, 1 February 2016. “Last June [2015], a woman walking her dog on Deer Island, in Boston Harbor, came across a black plastic garbage bag on the beach. Inside was a very little girl, dead. The woman called for help and collapsed in tears. Police searched the island; divers searched the water; a medical examiner collected the body. The little girl had dark eyes and pale skin and long brown hair. She weighed thirty pounds. She was wearing white-and-black polka-dot pants. She was wrapped in a zebra-striped fleece blanket. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said that no child matching her description had been reported missing. “Someone has to know who this child is,” an official there said. But for a very long time no one did.”
February 1, 2016
Baby Doe: Why Can’t We Stop Child Abuse?
February 1, 2016 Filed Under: Children, Criminal Justice, Income inequality/Class exploitation, Politics, Poverty, Racism Tagged With: "the battered child syndrome" by c. henry kempe, 1974 child abuse prevention and treatment act, 2008 act protecting children in the care of the commonwealth, adverse childhood experiences (ace), centers for disease control, charles dickens's "oliver twist", citizens for juvenile justice, jill lepore, journal of the american medical association, kaiser permanente, massachusetts department of children and families (d.c.f.), massachusetts office of the child advocate (o.c.a.), minding the baby (program run jointly by the yale child study center and yale's school of nursing, new england center for investigative reporting (n.e.c.i.r.), walter mondale