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Child abuse reaches new highs on Long Island

Suffolk County broke a record in March, but not the kind it wants to brag about - for the first time, more than 1,000 cases of child abuse or neglect were reported in a month. "We knew it was going to happen sooner or later. It finally happened," said Dennis Nowak, a spokesman for the Suffolk County Department of Social Services. The increase to 1,015 cases "was a big jump and this month is going...

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