{"id":8211,"date":"2020-03-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/spike-in-child-abuse-during-pandemic\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T09:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T09:19:57","slug":"spike-in-child-abuse-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/spike-in-child-abuse-during-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike In Child Abuse During Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/unnamed-file.jpg\" alt=\"cook children's medical center\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctors at Cook Children\u2019s Hospital say they believe the stresses from the coronavirus pandemic are linked to six cases of severe child abuse seen at the hospital just this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is usually what\u00a0Cook Children\u2019s says it sees\u00a0over the course of a month.\u00a0All of the children admitted this week are under 4 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe knew an increase in abuse was going to occur, but this happened faster than we ever imagined,\u201d said Christi Thornhill, director of the\u00a0Trauma Program, the Care Team and\u00a0Fostering Health at Cook Children\u2019s.\u00a0\u201cI mean this happened in a week and these are really bad abuse cases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/2020\/03\/20\/texas-hospital-spike-severe-child-abuse-cases-coronavirus\/?fbclid=IwAR2d9hMQ4Exa2LYnBAm25XxLHzdgVEr3HluWv1GPujCA2hDSZhY6pdvl9o0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full article and watch the segment here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/book-an-appointment\/\">SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT WITH A CHILD THERAPIST HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors at Cook Children\u2019s Hospital say they believe the stresses from the coronavirus pandemic are linked to six cases of severe child abuse seen at the hospital just this week. This is usually what\u00a0Cook Children\u2019s says it sees\u00a0over the course of a month.\u00a0All of the children admitted this week are under 4 years old. \u201cWe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-addiction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8213,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions\/8213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gocuris.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}