BOSTON – Massachusetts had the highest rate of child abuse and neglect in the nation in 2014, with almost 31,900 cases reported, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The rate of abuse or neglect rose to 22.9 cases per 1,000 children in the state in 2014, the report shows. That's up from 14.5 cases per 1,000 children in 2013, when the state ranked ninth, with about 20,300 cases.
BOSTON – Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton urged attendees ahead of a panel discussion on refugee resettlement in New England to resist "denying the American dream" to those living in peril abroad, but a former State Department foreign service officer reminded listeners that the asylum vetting process isn't as thorough as it seems.
Moulton, a Democrat and Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq, delivered his remarks at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate before the Thursday night discussion, the latest entry in the institute's "Getting to the Point" series in which experts are called upon to chime in on complicated current events.
