Hannah Ross is urging Kentucky lawmakers to criminalize grooming and strengthen protections for minors after surviving decades-long abuse by a trusted adult.
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“I don’t think they are properly qualified to adopt kids,” the 18-year-old said about the recently divorced Bevins, who adopted Jonah and a group of three siblings from Ethiopia in 2012, when he was five.
45% of Kentucky women and 35% of Kentucky men experience intimate partner physical violence and/or rape in their lifetimes.
The awareness effort officially kicks off Monday. Data shows about a dozen children out of every thousand experience maltreatment in Kentucky.
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For years, the founder of Kentucky Link Coalition, Joye Keeley, has studied the connection between animal abuse and human violence.
The Louisville Collaboration to Prevent Child Abuse, Youth and Family Violence was awarded a $2 million federal appropriations grant.
A state commission has awarded nearly $14 million in the latest round of funding to groups serving “in the trenches.”
Most abuse victims in Kentuckiana are less than a year old.
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Coulter suffers from dementia and family were originally looking for a facility that would keep her safe.
Critics say the current law is too vague.