State Auditor Could Re-Examine Child Abuse Hotline Operations

Reports that a father claims he called the state’s child abuse hotline 40 times before his children were taken away from their mother and her boyfriend prompt State Auditor Claire McCaskill to examine hot line operations for the second time in three years. The man, from Jackson County, says he thinks the mother and boyfriend were abusing his two daughters. McCaskill says she’s frustrated that the system is not making the major improvements it needs to make.