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barbaraann

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6. CA Gov. Deukmejian enabled this child molester and MANY OTHERS.
Thu Aug 31, 2023, 02:30 PM
Aug 2023

He cut funding for a very effective child abuse prevention program. This is all I can find on the internet and I cannot get past the paywall:

Child Protection Funds Running Out as Abuse of ...
Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-1990-06-1...
Jun 14, 1990 — The money for the 4 1/2-year-old program runs out at the end of this month, and Gov. George Deukmejian has stricken any future funding from his ...

I lived in California at that time and knew a woman who gave child abuse presentations to young children through this program. She told me that usually after each presentation a child would come up to her and reveal that he/she was being molested. Gov. Duekmejian probably enabled the molestation of THOUSANDS of children and I will never get over my anger at him and the Republicans who supported him.

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