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Some attribute child abuse spike to recession
The stream of abused children into Nassau University Medical Center is relentless and growing.
But what's more disturbing, says the East Meadow hospital's child abuse specialist, Dr. Bella Silecchia, is a shift in their problems: long-untreated broken bones, severe malnourishment and children who "are homeless and out stealing and begging."
"I have no hard proof, but my feeling is this...
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