Oklahoma has 7th worst child death rate

 
BY RANDY ELLIS | Modified: October 21, 2009 at 10:19 am | Published: October 21, 2009   

Oklahoma had the seventh worst child death rate from abuse and neglect in the nation during 2007, a setback from the previous year.

Thirty-one Oklahoma children died from abuse and neglect in 2007, leaving the state with a death rate of 3.48 per 100,000 children, according to a report by the Every Child Matters Education Fund, a Washington-based nonprofit group that works to make children, youth and families a national priority.

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The group’s researchers used 2007 data because that is the most recent available from the federal government, said Patrick Stevenson, spokesman for the organization.

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