November 17, 2008
TALLAHASSEE - Florida's cash crunch hit home for Glen Casel during the summer, when he cut supervised parental visits for Seminole County's abused children to save scarce state dollars.
Now, two or three families at a time are allowed to visit their abused children inside the Salvation Army center in Sanford, with just one social-services worker keeping watch over them all, he said.
It was that, Casel says, or cut back on caseworkers visiting homes where abuse might be occurring.
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