The Region - News from May 30, 1985

U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) announced that he will introduce legislation “to breathe new life” into the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect and help police crack down on child molesters. His National Anti-Child Abuse Network Act would require the center to suggest effective ways of investigating and prosecuting child sexual abuse cases without further traumatizing the victim and to develop training materials for police, judges and other professionals involved in the system; require the FBI to include statistics on child abuse in its uniform crime report, and mandate federal drug treatment program workers to report suspected child abuse (which confidentiality rules now forbid). Cranston appeared at a joint press conference in Los Angeles with state Atty. Gen. John Van de Kamp.