Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
The numbers are sobering. Between 2008 and 2015, more than 850 kids in California were abused so badly that their cases were deemed near fatalities.
During those same years, nearly a thousand more did die from abuse, this according to the California Department of Social Services.
The question being debated now is how much information should be available to the public in severe cases of child abuse. It's one that Laurel Rosenhall is writing about in Cal Matters. She joined the show to discuss the issue.
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