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Special to the Chronicle
Sunshine Arnold, team coordinator with the UF Child Protection Team at Jessie’s Place, demonstrates a device used at the center. The child was not a crime victim.
In uptick of child sexual abuse, a silver lining

For the past several years, the number of violent crimes reported across the nation — rape among them — has declined.

And while Citrus County’s crime numbers mostly mirror the national trend, in one subcategory — sexual crimes against children — reports have been mostly trending upward.

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