Sheriff’s Child Protection Unit Fills Backpacks for Abused, Neglected Kids
The 200 backpacks, filled with everything a child needs for school, will go to abused and neglected children across the county.
More than 200 abused or neglected children will have a full backpack when they start school next week, thanks to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. Child Protective Investigations Division staffers filled backpacks with pens, notebooks and pencils Tuesday, Aug. 16, at the sheriff’s office headquarters on Falkenburg Road. The backpacks will be distributed to elementary and middle school-age children of families that child protection investigators work with. “We see a lot of domestic violence and drug abuse in the cases we investigate — those are the No. 1 and No. 2 complaints that come into our agency — and obviously those issues impact the home life of children where school may not be a priority,” said Maj. Robert Bullara, commander…
