Listening to Bill Hayes, a retired social worker and children's advocate, are, from left, county Rep. Andrew Stammel, D-Oneonta; Deputy Board Clerk Jenna Utter, Board Clerk Carol McGovern, county Board Chair Kathy Clark, R-Otego, and county Reps. Len Carson, R-Oneonta, and Keith McCarty, R-East Springfield. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
COOPERSTOWN – Bill Hayes, retired Bassett Hospital social worker and local coordinator of National Child Abuse Prevention Month in Otsego County, told the county board at its monthly meeting this morning that 41 more cases of child abuse were reported locally in the first quarter of 2016 compared to the first quarter last year.
Most of the cases are not life-threatening; they involve unnecessary physical abuse, neglect and poor judgment, he said.
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