A Call for Help: A look into Riverside County’s child abuse response system
The Perris Prison home was an anomaly, one would hope. The conditions that David and Louise Turpin kept their children in appeared cruel to anyone, let alone to children.
Questions circulated, ranging from ‘how could this go unnoticed for so long?’ to ‘what can be done to stop this abuse in the future?’ The former question is tough to answer, but the latter is a little more clearcut.
Each month, the Riverside County Child Abuse Hotline (1-800-442-4918) receives over 5,000 calls. The key resource is in-demand in the county, and, ideally, aims to make cases like the Perris Prison Home a thing of the past.
“Child abuse is real. and there are children in our communities that are abused every day,” says Teri Badia, the Deputy Director of the Child Services Division of the Riverside County Department of Public Social Services.
To report an instance of child abuse, call the Riverside County Child Abuse Hotline at 1-800-442-4918.
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