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Orphans with tics and dwarfs without lips or teeth ( Jack Maggs and The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith ), 10-year-old parricides and sexually abused teen-agers ( Illywhacker and The Tax Inspector )--Carey documents their stories in exhaustive, loving detail.
"It's going to be hugely beneficial for our clients," said Candace Waldron, executive director of Help for Abused Women and their Children.
The last time Sedlak conducted an incidence study, it had to be revised and reissued almost three years later because technical problems in the analysis inflated the estimated number of abused and neglected children by 11 percent.
For that you have to turn to the Washington Post and New York Times headlines, which make it plain: lied (both papers), obstructed justice (the Post ) and abused power (the NYT ).
Attributing its facts to a report by the country's High Audit Commission, the paper said that 43,000 state officials had been found to have abused their positions for illegal financial gain.