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1994 SESSION

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HJ 284 Sexual abuse.

Introduced by: Linda T. Puller | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Sexual abuse. Requests the Department of Social Services to develop a plan to require that all reports of suspected child sexual abuse perpetrated by a person who is not a caretaker of the child received by a local department of social services or the State Department of Social Services through its child abuse and neglect hotline be referred to a local law-enforcement agency. Local departments of social services are responsible for investigating child abuse and neglect only if the perpetrator is the child's parent or other person responsible for his care.


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