CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR, SOCIAL SERVICES, AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY H.R. 15779 and H.R. 15918 CHILD ABUSE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 40-331 WASHINGTON : 1974 SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR, SOCIAL SERVICES, AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ROMANO L. MAZZOLI, Kentucky, Chairman DONALD M. FRASER, Minnesota GILBERT GUDE, Maryland HENRY P. SMITH III, New York ROBIN L. BEARD, Tennessee KAREN E. FLEISCHER, Subcommittee Staf Consultant (\) CONTENTS H.R. 15779, by Messrs. Stark, Stuckey, and Fraser (to establish an agency for the prevention of child abuse in the District of Columbia, and for Section-by-Section Analysis of H.R. 15779_ H.R. 15918, by Mr. Fraser (to establish an agency for the prevention of child abuse in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes) - Children's Hospital National Medical Center: Heiser, Annette, M.D.- 32, 45 43, 45 15, 19 Galdi, Ms. Martha, Representative, Community Task Force on Child Wel- Law Center, Juvenile Justice Clinic: Georgetown University Mylniec, Wallace, Co-Director. Government of the District of Columbia : Gill, Vernon, General Counsel, Metropolitan Police Department----- 61 Huhn, Ms. Nan, Assistant Corporation Counsel. Yeldell, Joseph P., Director, Department of Human Resources.. Lunsford, William G., Director, Washington Office, Child Welfare League National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Ne- glect, Brian Fraser, staff attorney --- Riley, Ms. E. Anne, president, Metropolitan Washington Chapter, National Association of Social Workers -- Stein, Ms. Mary Ann, attorney, For Love of Children, Inc.- Stuckey, Hon. W. S. Stuckey, Jr-- 29 61 MATERIAL SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD 25 145 140 "Adoption-Parental Rights," opinion by Judge Ketcham, Daily Wash- ington Law Reporter-- letter to Subcommittee on Business, Commerce, and Taxation, dated Au- gust 12, 1974.--- letter to Congressman Mazzoli, dated August 9, 1974.-- Draft Bill—To Establish an Agency for the Prevention of Child Abuse in the District of Columbia, and for Other Purposes. Examples of Children in Jeopardy Known to Washington Travelers Aid FitzGerald, Joan E., Children's Defense Fund of the Washington Research Project, Inc., letter to Chairman Mazzoli, dated July 22, 1974.- Green, Frederick C., M.D., associate director, Children's Hospital, National Medical Center, letter to subcommittee, dated September 6, 1974.. Page 144 152 133 151 127 Greene, Hon. Harold H., Chief Judge, District of Columbia Superoir Court, Gruver, Clifton R., M.D., president, The Medical Society of the District of Columbia, statement- from "Toward Prevention of Child Abuse," by Marion G. Morris, Robert W. Gould, and Patricia J. Matthews--- Society of Washington, D.C., letter to Chairman Mazzoli, dated July 24, 1974 Abuse Team, Children's Hospital, National Medical Center, supple- mental statement- Gaughan, Dennis M., Social Services Institute--- politan Washington, D.C.---- letter to Chairman Mazzoli, dated September 13, 1974.-- Lundsford, William G., director, Washington office, Child Welfare League Schroeder, Hon. Patricia, letter submitted by Congressman Stark.. Simons, William H., president, Washington Teachers' Union, Local No. 6, AFT, letter to Subcommittee, dated August 14, 1974.- Aid Society of Washington, D.C., Inc., letter to Chairman Mazzoli, dated August 28, 1974.- ington, D.C., letter to Chairman Mazzoli, dated July 22, 1974.-- and Welfare, letter to Chairman Mazzoli, dated September 19, 1974---- 127 150 146 147 134 153 SUMMARY OF TESTIMONY Child Welfare League of America---- Center for Prevention and Treatment--- Comprehensive child abuse plan. 125 120 78 54 67 54 |