This a part of the transcript of the audio story that aired on NPR on Tuesday:
JENNIFER RODRIGUEZ [commissioner on the child abuse panel]: I was actually born into a family that probably had every risk factor that we're going to be talking talk about. My mother was seriously mentally ill - paranoid schizophrenic - my father was incarcerated, generational poverty. And my case was identified to the child welfare system immediately.
[PAM] FESSLER [NPR reporter]: But it took 10 years before she was removed from her home, even though her mother was repeatedly hospitalized and arrested. Rodriquez, who now runs the Youth Law Center in California, says many agencies were involved with her family.
RODRIGUEZ: But because of confidentiality and lack of information-sharing, there wasn't really any action taken.
FESSLER: And that's just the kind of coordination problem the new commission hopes to fix. The 12-member panel was appointed last year by President Obama and congressional leaders, to recommend ways to eliminate deaths due to child abuse and neglect. An ambitious goal, indeed.
http://www.npr.org/2014/02/25/282359501/panel-charged-with-eliminating-child-abuse-deaths
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