CIFS Executive Director Kate Judson discusses the important factors that need to come into consideration before accusing parents of child abuse. Other causes need to be ruled out through testing and consulting with experts before potentially dangerous reporting is made. This story covers the accusations towards a Mount Horeb couple after taking their 9-month-old son to the hospital with a 103-degree fever. The head of the American Family Children’s Hospital’s Child Protection Program reported the parents because of tiny bruises on his body.

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