Last year, the Children’s Advocacy Center of Spartanburg opened its doors to nearly 600 sexually abused children from Spartanburg, Cherokee and Union Counties.
These children were in need of healing and hope.
Most of them were abused by the very people who should have taken care of them. Every time an abused child walks through our doors, our focus becomes clear - always put the child’s needs first in the long road of recovery.
Every...
- 11 seconds a child is reported abused or neglected
- 2 hours a child is a homicide victim
Every day in the United States…
- 3 children die from child abuse
- 13,700 children are abused
Nearly every day, I glance out my office window and catch a brief glimpse of a child being led up the sidewalk to our front steps... continued
