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Speaker 1: Tell you what, I'm not feeling terribly hopeful over the

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Speaker 1: bashing of kids in this country after reading the coroner's

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Speaker 1: recommendations following the death of Malachi Shubash. Now you will

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Speaker 1: remember the case of Malachi Shubash. I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: go through the details. I'm not going to traverse it again,

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Speaker 1: sufficient to say it happened about five years ago, four

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Speaker 1: and a half years ago. Fired up public anger because

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Speaker 1: of the number of times that has wider. Family tried

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Speaker 1: to warn authorities that something was going to happen and

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Speaker 1: then they failed to protect them. Now, one of the

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Speaker 1: recommendations the coroner has made today in her report is

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Speaker 1: that ot or Ang automatik Aka Siffs run a public

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Speaker 1: awareness campaign to help anyone identify possible signs of abuse

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Speaker 1: and how to take action. Now, to be fair to her,

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Speaker 1: that's not her idea originally, it actually came from an

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Speaker 1: earlier review. She's only pointing out that it still hasn't

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Speaker 1: happened and then reiterated that there should be a public campaign.

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Speaker 1: But really, is that what we need in this country?

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Speaker 1: We need a public campaign to tell us what child

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Speaker 1: abuse looks like. I think we all know what child

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Speaker 1: abuse looks looks like. I mean, I struggle to believe

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Speaker 1: that there are people out there who do not know

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Speaker 1: that breaking a child's bone isn't child abuse, in which

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Speaker 1: case isn't. It's just the kind of thing that well

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Speaker 1: meaning people do to make themselves feel like they're doing

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Speaker 1: something when really they're doing nothing, because maybe there is

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Speaker 1: very little that you actually can do. The problem with

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Speaker 1: Malachi's case was not that people didn't know what child

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Speaker 1: abuse looked like. People did see the child abuse and

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Speaker 1: they absolutely knew it was child abuse, and they went

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Speaker 1: to OT and they said, hey, Malachi is being abused,

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Speaker 1: here's the proof. And they did that, by my account,

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Speaker 1: about five times, if not more, and OT didn't stop it.

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Speaker 1: That's the problem, and it is the problem for so

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Speaker 1: many children in this country. When they die, we find

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Speaker 1: out afterwards OT already knew the family, and yet the

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Speaker 1: kids ended up dead. Anyway. The problem isn't that we

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Speaker 1: you and I don't know what child abuse looks like.

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Speaker 1: Yes we do. The problem is that the agency supposed

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Speaker 1: to stop it from supposed to stop the children from dying,

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Speaker 1: apparently doesn't know what child abuse looks like. Never mind

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Speaker 1: a campaign. I think you fix that. You fixed that

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