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Report it!
The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) is reminding citizens that reporting child abuse is a legal mandate, even while warning that the rates of violence against children in Jamaica remain alarmingly high. “Any person who has information which causes that person to suspect that a child has been, is being, or is likely to be abandoned, neglected, or physically or sexually ill-treated, or is otherwise in need of care and protection, shall make a report to the registry [National Children’s Registry],” said legal officer at the CPFSA Kimberly Blackwood-Martin, while referencing the Child Care and Protection Act
