Fleet spearheads the children's advocacy center program for the two-county area.
Children abused by non-caregivers, like a neighbor or visiting relative, account for about half of the abused children in the area every year, according to Fleet. The two-county area has an average of 2,000 child abuse cases a year. Of those 2,000, only half get reported, and of the 1,000 cases only 30 arrests are made on the average, Fleet said. Fleet blamed the low arrest rate on decentralized care the CAC intends to eliminate. Adult offices, like police departments where there are cops and criminals and handcuffs hanging on the wall, is not a place for abused children.