11.   Bexar County officials are investigating one other child abuse case based on statements McQuay made while in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

12.   Boyfriends and other men unrelated to a child often are the earliest suspects in abuse cases, particularly if the children were last in their care, Armijo said.

13.   A former San Francisco police chief and a Los Angeles police detective specializing in child sex abuse cases suggested some of the actions of Ribera and Philpott were inappropriate.

14.   A lot of child abuse cases end up in tragedy.

15.   A drug abuse case has touched off a similar debate in South Carolina.

16.   A recent study shows San Francisco judges use this method to settle domestic abuse cases vastly more often than any other major county in the state.

17.   A state investigator might lose sleep over a horrid abuse case.

18.   Across town at Roice-Hurst Humane Society, abuse cases have steadily trickled through the doors.

19.   But abuse cases, in which children suffer physical injuries, are actually very rare.