Kentucky ranks near the bottom when it comes to child abuse. For three years in a row, Kentucky had the highest rate of child maltreatment from 2017-2019. Dr. Christina Howard is the chief of the division of pediatric forensic medicine at Kentucky Children’s Hospital. She said a new children maltreatment report was released with numbers from 2020.
“So in 2020 in Kentucky there was over 67-thousand reports of abuse or neglect made to child protective services. That is a decrease of 10-thousand reports to them.”
