A man, charged with capital murder after a violent outburst leads to the death of a four-year-old boy. Another man, accused of sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s seven-year-old daughter.
These are just two of the horrific cases of child abuse we’ve reported in the past month – and the impact reaches far beyond the families involved.
Roy Maas Youth Alternatives runs emergency shelters for kids who were removed from dangerous homes. Counselors are on hand 24 hours a day, and years of stomach-dropping stories of abuse and neglect take their toll.
"It was a court document,” Renee Garvens with Roy Maas offers an example. “She had written the story of her father sexually abusing for many years. I read the entire piece, and then afterward I just sat and I just cried because I felt so sad for this little person that was just treated so horribly."
She can’t help but carry the emotions home.
[For more of this story, written by Emily Baucum, go to http://news4sanantonio.com/new...mpact-of-child-abuse]
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