The Brief

PHOENIX - 400 kids a month come into Childhelp’s advocacy center in Phoenix to look for help after reports of abuse in their home, and the center says they are hoping to help more children.

"We’re talking about children who are starved, children who are beaten, children that are emotionally distressed," said Childhelp Chief Operating Officer (COO) Michael Medoro. "We just had some situations here in Arizona. We had a story with Rebecca Baptiste , where more than a dozen phone calls were made to [Department of Child Safety] from her school, letting them know ‘hey, this child is in danger,’ but little action was taken to investigate that nature."

The backstory:

Childhelp is completely funded through donations. They help about 400,000 kids across the nation every year, and

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