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Ma’Khia Bryant was charging at two young women with a knife, police body camera video footage shows, when an officer arrived and fatally shot her outside the foster home she had been living in for about two months.
Ma’Khia’s foster mother Angela Moore, who wasn’t home at the time, said the dispute stemmed from an argument over a messy house and an unmade bed between Ma’Khia and some of Moore’s former foster children who had come to the house to throw Moore a birthday party. At least two of the women involved in the altercation were adults ages 20 and 22, according to a police report.
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April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and Focus on the Family is raising awareness through its “Prevention with a Purpose” campaign.
With this month’s campaign, Focus on the Family is honing in on prevention as a key element that can save lives. People in any role in a child’s life play a part in preventing child abuse by actively looking and listening for signs of abuse or neglect.
“Our Prevention with Purpose campaign is about helping everyone to know that their eyes and ears matter in the life of a child,” Sharen Ford, director of foster care and adoption for Focus on the Family, said. “If you see something that is suspicious, please call and report it. If you hear something that concerns you a conversation that young children are having or older children and it sounds suspicious, please pick up the phone and report it.”
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. Kentucky comes in first in the nation for the highest rate of child abuse, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Children’s Bureau.
This April, during Child Abuse Prevention Month, doctors and police say their experiences support that unfortunate state ranking.
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Kentucky ranks first in the country for child abuse, and doctors and detectives confirm their workloads have increased to support the unfortunate ranking
One Norton Children s doctor says January and February of 2021 saw a 50% increase in cases, compared to last year
An LMPD detective says internet crimes against children are also on the rise