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'Years of suspicion' - What a frightening phrase. For years, many in our area have suspected that abuse to children and elders occurs daily in the inner city. Most everyone is aware of it. No one gets together a swat team and pulls out the children. Is it that when one group is targeted, (esp. a group we have suspicions about) we all have to 'save the children'? We don't know what we will do with the children, but we will make a splash. Probably some of the children in the compound have been abused, but probably less than are abused everyday in the inner cities. Abuse, anytime and to anyone, is wrong. But the trauma to the people involved in this 'rescue' is probably worse than any they suffered before. I do not wish to anger anyone, I just think it is easy to quote aritcles and unintentionally harm more than help. Maybe these charges could have been handled differently. Maybe the children not being abused could have avoided the trauma of this upheaval.
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