An estimated 80 percent of children who have been sexually abused never tell anyone about it, the chairman of a new South Dakota task force said Tuesday at the panel’s first meeting.
“We absolutely don’t know what to do and because of that the conversation has never been opened up,” state Sen. Deb Soholt said. “This is not something where there are winners and losers. There are only losers.”
The lawmakers also learned Tuesday that prosecutors dismissed 379 child sex offense charges in fiscal 2014.
[For more of this story, written by Bob Mercer http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/many-children-don-t-report-sex-abuse-task-force-told/article_fff2bbe2-9ac1-5390-83a4-016159257ed5.html]
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