MN Child Fatalities Rise for Fifth Year (thank you Safe Passage for Children)
In 2023, at least 32 children died from maltreatment in Minnesota – the fifth year in a row of increases. That’s almost three children per month who spent their final hours in crisis; their deaths were entirely preventable. State agencies received over 82,000 reports about possible neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse and other forms of child maltreatment in 2023 – an increase of 4 percent from