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The number of abuse reports decreased at the height of the pandemic, but incidents did not
By Sahar Chmais
Numbers can be deceiving. The Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center (HCWC) observed this bitter truth during the heights of the pandemic that silenced the voice of many abuse victims.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, the number of people seeking housing and other help from the HCWC went down and the number of reported child-abuse cases decreased.That is not because sexual, physical and mental abuse was dissolving, rather, people were no longer reaching out for help because...