Illinois: Courthouse event draws attention to child abuse -- and need for volunteers to help victims

Courthouse event draws attention to child abuse -- and need for volunteers to help victims

More than 50 people stood on the lawn of the Kane County Courthouse in downtown Geneva at noon Thursday, with their heads bowed, clasping blue-and-silver pinwheel toys. They were remembering, in a moment of silence, the victims of child abuse and neglect -- "especially those that are still hiding," said Gloria Kelley, executive director of Court-Appointed Special Advocates of Kane County. CASA's annual "Hands Around the Courthouse" ceremony closed out observation of National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The color of the pinwheels hearkens to the blue ribbon a Virginia grandmother placed on her car's radio antenna in 1989, to memorialize ...

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