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Editor’s note • The state abuse and neglect hotline is answered 24 hours a day at 855-323-3237. Kids who have a smartphone can use the SafeUT app, which is anonymous. Parents can contact for assistance, including family support centers and crisis nurseries.
Early in the pandemic, when people stayed home during lockdowns, it was “very, very, very quiet” at the clinics in Utah, where Dr. Antoinette Laskey and other professionals usually see children coming in for help after being abused.
That “was frightening to us, because we know that child abuse doesn’t just go away,” said Laskey, who is the division chief of child protection and family health at the University of Utah Health, as well as the medical director for Primary Children’s Hospital’s Center for Safe and Healthy Families.