Article: Should police investigate child abuse?

ROY G. PERHAM
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
01-26-2004

Should police investigate child abuse?
By ROY G. PERHAM
Date: 01-26-2004, Monday
Section: OPINION
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THE SETTLEMENT of the lawsuit against DYFS brought by Children's Rights, Inc., provides an opportunity to try to improve DYFS or to explore a different approach. From the public's perspective, DYFS workers lose track of cases, as in the Faheem Williams case in Newark, and miss abuse that would have been obvious to a layperson, as in the Jackson case in Collingswood. From the workers' perspective, they are trying to do an overwhelming job without the information, equipment, or supervision they ...

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