A spokesman for a state agency estimated that “hundreds of thousands” of people have been added to a central registry of child abuse and maltreatment since 1995, but could not readily provide a count of how many are on that list.
The registry “isn’t driven by that sort of list-keeping but rather as a means of preventing abuse and maltreatment,” said Craig Smith of the state Office of Children and Family Services. “Names are kept on record but not a running tally.”
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