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Show Ourinc reont ycir, 3,3r.7 cases writ-in writ-in VI all, and HO piM'ci'iit of then) inVolwd ncclci-t of tin' children, 10 percent wiv cases of physical abuse. The State Department of Social Services suys that "probably the hardest aspect as-pect of controlling child abuse and neglect is the problem of detection." You can get information on what you can do to prevent pre-vent child neglect and abuse from your school. We in Utah hold our children chil-dren In high esteem. We owe it to them, as well as ourselves, to know the laws and to help enforce them. The tremendous physical, mental and emotional problems prob-lems which battered and forgotten for-gotten children encounter affect af-fect them throughout their lives. Child abuse is too important impor-tant to ignore. Schoolers, and fVA Home J Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Executive Secretary Utah Education Association Young Marvin, breathless and wide, eyes ran into his house and began gasping a horror story worse than anything any-thing he'd seen on TV in weeks. He'd seen his friend Tim, at the playground with a black eye and purple marks covering his body. Tim said his Dad had beaten him. Marvin's Mom saw Tim, and sure enough, there are the bruises. Under the circumstances, what should Marvin's mother do? The laws of Utah say that anyone who knows or reason -ably suspects that a child is |