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Pandemic lockdowns and restrictions kept many people home from jobs and kids home from school for about a year. Regulations were meant to protect people from the deadly COVID-19 virus. Isolation, however, created ripe environments for abuse, especially among children. But that doesn t mean more cases were reported.
The number of total reports to Hamilton County Children s Services last year was 11,216, down from 12,583 reports in 2019, according to Alex Patsfall, intake screening and after-hours response section chief at Hamilton County Children s Services. I d say about (last) March, our numbers plummeted in terms of the number of people that were calling in reports of abuse and neglect, she said. And really, that is likely because all of our mandated reporters are no longer having contact with children, So our teachers, our daycare providers; people were scared to take their children to doctors, pediatricians.
Attention, parents: In case you need more worry for your children now, check out those coin-shaped batteries all over your house and the sets of small, extremely powerful magnets sold as desk toys.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has found that in just six months last year, the number of children treated in emergency departments for swallowing batteries rose 93%.
Meanwhile, researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus reported this month that in 2018 and 2019, the average number of calls to poison control centers for children exposed to the small magnets increased 444%. The study found a 355% increase in the number of cases that required hospital care.