Advocacy Center aids child abuse victims

  • Anna Register, Program Director (left), and Denise Merriman, Executive Director, of the Shelby County Children’s Advocacy Center, lead a team of professionals that address child abuse issues in Shelby and San Augustine counties. David Danley | Light and Champion
    Anna Register, Program Director (left), and Denise Merriman, Executive Director, of the Shelby County Children’s Advocacy Center, lead a team of professionals that address child abuse issues in Shelby and San Augustine counties. David Danley | Light and Champion
    This is the first in a series of stories that deal with child abuse and children’s advocacy centers’ role in investigating child abuse cases.When the unthinkable presents itself, oftentimes the default reaction is to make excuses that it didn’t happen or doesn’t exist, no matter how much it contradicts the evidence.Unfortunately, that self-preserving avoidance can sometime...

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