The Record · NC
North Carolina
North Carolina: federal child-welfare figures and 73 pieces of KARA reporting, in full.
Federal child-welfare figures and KARA's reporting on North Carolina.
Child maltreatment victims
NCANDS, FFY2024
Entered foster care
AFCARS, FY2022
In foster care on Sept 30
AFCARS, FY2022
Sources: NCANDS Child Maltreatment 2024; AFCARS state tables. Full record — every metric, every year, gaps labeled — on KARA SIGNAL
KARA reporting on North Carolina
73 articles, newest first, republished in full.
June 26, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse Prevention In America (videos & articles)
KARA reports on the issues of at risk children by curating a wide lens on child abuse and child protection. This post pulls together recent coverage from newspapers, universities, public health departments, UNICEF, the W
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May 20, 2026 · KARA Reporting
Part 5 of 5: Crime Dollar ROI From Early Childhood Programs
ROI Early Learning programs returns include reduced crime for at risk children. The evidence is robust across decades of research, program evaluations, and cost-benefit analyses.
May 16, 2026 · KARA Reporting
State of Foster Care In America
American Fosters are struggling. These reports from around the nation indicate a great need for more help for at risk families and safe homes for children unlucky enough to be born into toxic homes.
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March 14, 2026 · KARA Reporting
America’s Child Protection Crisis: Last Week’s Most Alarming CPS Cases and Reforms
Each week, children are escaping brutal homes, being harmed in foster care, and caught in CPS systems that too often miss clear danger or punish families without proof. From multimillion‑dollar settlements and court batt
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July 28, 2025 · KARA Reporting
Free and Discounted Resources for Foster Youth
free and discounted resources for foster and adopted children and families
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November 24, 2024 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse Sad Stories (4 days in November)
37% of children overall and 44% of Black children are reported to child protection services in America by the time they turn 18. (American Journal of Public Health 1.17) 7.8 million children a year are reported to child
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May 10, 2024 · KARA Reporting
New Child Fatalities Database (thank you Safe Passage for Children of MN)
New Child Fatalities Database (thank you Safe Passage for Children of MN)
March 11, 2023 · KARA Reporting
Child & Youth Suicides Feb 2023 (find your state here)
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association have joined forces to declare a national emergency in children’s mental health, large
September 1, 2022 · KARA Reporting
Recent Child Welfare Articles & Statistics
Recent Child Welfare Articles & Statistics Summer 2022
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October 4, 2021 · KARA Reporting
October Is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Watching your mother being beat up or raped is the same trauma as being beaten or raped to a five or nine year old. Untreated trauma lasts forever and it changes a person forever. The United Nation's-Secretary General An
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October 18, 2020 · KARA Reporting
Child Suicide Reporting (3 weeks ending 10.17.20)
These articles reflect current trends in child suicide & self-harm in America today. Only a fraction of child/youth suicides are successful. The vast majority of self-inflicted harm remains invisible. Mental health servi
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September 24, 2020 · KARA Reporting
What Child Abuse Looked Like in America Last Week (a snapshot)
Those of us that know about the traumas abused children suffer need to say more if we are ever to reverse the trend of generational child abuse in America. These articles were compiled over the last week. The COVID pande
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August 27, 2020 · KARA Reporting
COVID Child Abuse Update for July - August 2020
Almost every school building in the country is closed Fewer than half of students are participating in online learning in some schools, The reporting of child abuse is dropping by as much as 70% since schools shut their
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June 10, 2020 · KARA Reporting
The Pandemic Impacting Child Abuse and Foster Care (state by state)
Because schools are closed, after-school activities are canceled and churches aren't having youth groups and community activity with trusted adults outside the home have evaporated - the chances an abused child can find
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April 13, 2020 · KARA Reporting
Violence Against Children & Covid19 – (it’s own pandemic) part II
Shelter In Place locks abused children in toxic homes With no escape to the safety of a classroom Domestic violence is rising and law enforcement & social workers are having a hard time keeping up. CLICK HERE FOR RESOURC
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March 6, 2020 · KARA Reporting
Foster Care News 2019
The first article in this series is a CASEY Foundation Q&A about recruiting American Indian Foster Parents in Oklahoma and fixing the State’s struggling child welfare system. All states are struggling to find safe homes
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December 16, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Guardian ad-Litem Blogs & News
Guardian ad litem program needs volunteers in Anderson area Anderson Independent Mail Trained volunteers in the Cass Elias McCarter Guardian ad Litem Program helped more than 10000 abused or neglected South Carolina chil
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June 4, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Recent International Child Protection News
Often, we look to the government to provide support in order to protect our children; however, the following news stories point to a disturbing trend of a lack of state action in preventing or even intervening in child w
Alabama · Arkansas · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · North Carolina · South Carolina
January 2, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Recent Child Suicide Reports & Statistics (part I)
Most child suicide is underreported & obfuscated self-harming behaviors remain almost unknown except to those involved… find your state here;
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January 1, 2019 · KARA Reporting
Recent Infant Abuse Death Reports & Statistics
KARA (Kids At Risk Action) tracks news about at risk children - Find your state here…
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October 24, 2018 · KARA Reporting
September 2018 Child Sex Abuse & Trafficking (I)
KARA (Kids At Risk Action) tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. Human trafficking is rapidly growing crime across Tennessee In Tenne
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September 27, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse Death & Suicide August/September 2018 page 1 (sad stories)
Child and teen death rate by race and ethnicity Kids Count Data Center Definitions: Deaths to children between ages 1 and 19, from all causes, per 100,000 children in this age range by race and ethnicity. The data are …
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August 8, 2018 · KARA Reporting
July 2018 Child Abuse / Child Protection (part 3)
KARA (Kids At Risk Action) tracks current news about at risk children bringing transparency and attention to our youngest and most vulnerable citizens. This reporting is only sampling of what should be reported – the gre
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July 20, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Articles, Stories & Statistics About Adoption and Foster Care for June 2018
Group home caters to LGBT foster children Cronkite News Redmond said she wanted to provide a real home for LGBT foster children and her group home was immediately at capacity. They usually go on … Flag as irrelevant Adop
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July 12, 2018 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian ad Litem News for Summer 2018
Speak for a child in child protection as a CASA guardian ad litem (children need to be heard)
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July 9, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse & Child Protection for June 2018
Fairfield father charged with lewd acts in addition to child abuse involving his 10 children KTVU San Francisco FAIRFIELD, Calif. (BCN) - The Solano County District Attorney's Office today charged a Fairfield father of 1
June 4, 2018 · KARA Reporting
KARA Coastal Daybreak Radio Show (8 minutes)
Mike Tikkanen's interview with Ben Ball at North Carolina's Coastal Daybreak WTKF radio - a powerful discussion of child abuse, trauma and child protection in our nation today;
April 5, 2018 · KARA Reporting
Child Well Being & Abandonment March 2018 (III)
Opinion | Home visits a key to trauma-informed care for kids The Commercial Appeal As evidence of the impact of childhood trauma continues to permeate child-serving institutions, teachers, social workers, pediatricians a
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January 11, 2018 · KARA Reporting
MN At Risk Children's News July - September 2017 (II)
KARA gathers news about Minnesota’s abused children to provide a snapshot of Child Protection and how our state values its children. Only a fraction of serious child abuse stories, statistics and facts we should be aware
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October 7, 2017 · KARA Reporting
September Sad Stories 2017 Part II
OH: Greene County in need of additional foster families Xenia Daily Gazette - August 31, 2017 Greene County Children's Services has seen a 22 percent increase in new children services cases from 2015 through 2016 in addi
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September 20, 2017 · KARA Reporting
August Sad Stories Part I
American states are struggling to find answers for saving at risk children and reversing the explosive growth of child abuse and neglect. Today, many state ward children are the 4th and 5th generation of abused children
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August 10, 2017 · KARA Reporting
Your Tax Dollars At Work (why profit driven schools fail our children)
If you look hard and long at who is hurt the most by the Globes and Trumps of the world, it is almost always poor people that don't have the education, the background or the ability to know when they are being scammed. T
June 16, 2017 · KARA Reporting
CASA guardian ad-Litem News Feb thru May 2017 Part II (be a voice for children)
FIND YOUR CASA here – CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Find out what the other 975 CASA’s from around the nation are up to. Last year, more than 76,000 CASA and guar
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April 1, 2017 · KARA Reporting
Sad Stories March 2017 Part IV (child protection news from around the nation)
Dad jailed in Gentilly infant's death accused of mentioning crack use, accidental fall before arrest The Advocate Under questioning after his infant son's death last week, Jeffery Edward Coleman said that he had used cra
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March 12, 2017 · KARA Reporting
March 2017 Sad Stories Part I
Baby Justice Rees' father responds to charges in infant's death KCRA Sacramento The father of Baby Justice Rees, who found dead two years ago in a Yolo County slough, faces an involuntary manslaughter charge in connectio
February 4, 2017 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation December 2016 -January 2017
FIND YOUR CASA here – CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you Sai Yang and Century College for your research and writing on this page. These CASA guardian ad-Lite
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February 2, 2017 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation October/November 2016
FIND YOUR CASA here - CASA's around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you Sai Yang and Century College for your research and writing on this page. These CASA guardian ad-Lite
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December 14, 2016 · KARA Reporting
December 2016 Sad Stories Part 1
MD: Youth homelessness in Baltimore higher than previously thought The Baltimore Sun - November 30, 2016 More than 1,400 young people under the age of 25 were unaccompanied by a parent or guardian, without a safe, stable
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August 13, 2016 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian ad Litem News From Around the Nation July 2016
FIND YOUR CASA here – This page tells the stories of CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you KARA volunteers for your research and writing on this page. All Adult
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July 1, 2016 · KARA Reporting
June 2016 Sad Stories (part 2)
This page is a compilation of child protection news from around the nation (with some international reporting) for the month of June (through June 25) If you would like to help KARA gather and report news from your commu
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June 25, 2016 · KARA Reporting
CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around the Nation for June 2016
FIND YOUR CASA here - This page tells the stories of CASA's around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you Sai Yang and Century College for your research and writing on this pa
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May 28, 2016 · KARA Reporting
May 2016 Sad Stories
This page is a compilation of child protection/child abuse news from around the nation (with some international reporting) for the month of May. All Adults Are the Protectors of All Children Sign Up Here For KARA's Free
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April 12, 2016 · KARA Reporting
Child Sex, Child Mortality, Education, Prozac & Guns (how we value children)
America’s long running fight against sex education has brought our nation the low honors of having the highest STD rate in the world and the highest teen pregnancy rates in the world. We have lots of 13 year old moms wit
April 7, 2016 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian ad-Litem News Through March 2016
These CASA guardian ad-Litem articles have been gathered from around the nation for the month of March. If you are an aspiring journalist and would like to help Kids At Risk Action increase the quality and quantity of CA
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February 14, 2016 · KARA Reporting
CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around The Nation 1.1.16-2.13.16
FIND YOUR CASA here – This page tells the stories of CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you Sai Yang and Century College for your research and writing on this pa
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February 13, 2016 · KARA Reporting
CASA guardian ad-Litem News Around The Nation 10.1.15 Through 12.31.15
FIND YOUR CASA here – This page tells the stories of CASA’s around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. Thank you Sai Yang and Century College for your research and writing on this pa
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August 2, 2015 · KARA Reporting
CASA guardian ad-Litem News (find your state here) August 2015
A baby is born addicted to opiates, a young child wakes up to find their parent unresponsive with a needle in their arm, siblings sit in the back seat of a car parked on a country road as their parents are shooting up he
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June 10, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Child Welfare News Through June 9, 2015 - Sad Stories - Glad Stories (15 days)
ND: Child Abuse and Neglect on the Rise KFYR-TV - May 21, 2015 More than 12,000 incidents of child abuse and neglect were reported to the Department of Human Services in 2014. MO: & KS: EDITORIAL: Volunteers needed to he
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May 31, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Child Protection News Gathered Nationally (find your state here)
ALL ADULTS ARE THE PROTECTORS OF ALL CHILDREN Most of our news for this page (300 + articles) is gathered from; Child Welfare in the News is distributed at no charge by Child Welfare Information Gateway (www.childwelfare
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May 6, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Child Protection Stories Around the Nation (find your state here)
Child abuse reports gathered from around the nation from January through May 4th (find your state here). Post comments here about how your state is protecting children. All adults are the protectors of all children (pass
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May 6, 2015 · KARA Reporting
KARA Child Abuse Reporting This Spring (March, April, May)
Recent child abuse reporting from around the nation (find your state here)
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April 17, 2015 · KARA Reporting
CASA News Around the Nation for April (what do guardian ad-Litems do?)
The following is a compilation of Court Appointed Special Advocate - guardian ad-litem news in April from around the nation (find your state here). Send KARA your announcements & news articles (short form with links & in
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March 5, 2015 · KARA Reporting
CASA guardian ad litem News Around The Nation (find your state here)
This post compiles CASA stories from around the nation.
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January 19, 2015 · KARA Reporting
Falling Through the Cracks (NYTimes) 786 Children Die While in Child Protective Services
This article in yesterday's NY Times, (from AP) shows how at least 786 children died awful deaths while in full view of child protection authorities. The numbers are most likely much higher
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November 17, 2014 · KARA Reporting
We’re Number One (America leads the world in the wrong things)
We are now number one in child homelessness; one in thirty kids – 2.5 million American children, experienced homelessness last year. Many states don’t offer children insurance, daycare, prenatal care, or healthcare and p
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November 10, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Child Abuse Stories Across the Nation
MN: Lessons from child abuse deaths go unheeded in Minnesota (Opinion) Minneapolis Star Tribune - November 09, 2014 A Star Tribune examination of state and county records shows little evidence that the mortality reviews
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August 28, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Guardian ad-Litem News
These are CASA guardian ad-Litem stories KARA has gathered from around the nation;
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August 14, 2014 · KARA Reporting
This Week's Child Death Reporting
DFCS child death cases spike in 2013MyAJC.comThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution published a series of stories in 2013 and 2014 cataloging Georgia's failure to protect children from abuse and neglect …
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June 22, 2014 · KARA Reporting
CASA Guardian ad-Litem News (updates from around the nation)
Lawyers to become 'eyes and ears' of judges in new Family Law Guardian ad Litem pilot program Bradenton Herald More than two dozen lawyers from the Icard Merrill law firm have signed up to be guardians ad litem as part o
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May 27, 2014 · KARA Reporting
Kilah's Law
In May of 2012, at the tender age of 3, Kilah Davenport was cruelly beat by her stepfather. She had to have emergency brain surgery that involved removing a portion of her skull to relieve swelling on her brain but was s
April 22, 2014 · KARA Reporting
This Week's News For At Risk Children
VA: State finds Richmond DSS not at fault in two child deaths WTVR - April 18, 2014 A review conducted by Virginia's Department of Social Services determined Richmond's Department of Social Services (RDSS) did not contri
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December 3, 2013 · KARA Reporting
Bad Day In The News For Children In Need Of Protection
Z: Senate president rejects request for more CPS funding Your West Valley - December 02, 2013 The president of the state Senate is blasting a request for more money for Child Protective Services, saying the agency may ha
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September 16, 2013 · KARA Reporting
Zero Kids Waiting September Newsletter
Zero Kids Waiting is the monthly eNewsletter of Minnesota Adoption Resource Network, a 33-year old organization that creates and supports lifelong nurturing families for children needing permanency. As an email subscribe
June 12, 2013 · KARA Reporting
Connect To CASA's (Court Appointed Special Advocate's) Around The Nation (300)
This page is a compilation of the hundreds of CASA's around the U.S. If you are not listed, send me your info and we will include it. See what other CASA volunteers are doing - send us your stories and blogs (we are buil
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June 6, 2013 · KARA Reporting
CASA guardian ad-Litem News From Around The Nation
Without court appointed CASA volunteers, America's abused and neglected children have no voice in the homes they are raised in or the homes they live in foster care. States like Virginia are now forcing children back int
February 8, 2013 · KARA Reporting
Tracking America's Most At Risk Children (Compiled)
New documents obtained by KCAL9 detail previous allegation of abuse in the case of a now- deceased 8-year-old Palmdale boy who investigators say was tortured and beaten to death. Gabrieal Frenandez suffered a skull fract
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July 17, 2012 · KARA Reporting
The Holocaust of Innocence Tour and Documentary
The National Holocaust of Innocence Tour and Documentary/Research Project August 1, 2012, we will be kicking off from Shreveport, Louisiana and will end after May 25, 2013 Washington D.C. two day Rally and Million Surviv
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April 28, 2012 · KARA Reporting
Guardian Ad-Litem News From Around The Nation
AskTheGAL: A new weekly column for your questions about helping abused, neglected children Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/04/18/4003160/askthegal-a-new-weekly-column.html#storylink=cpy
April 19, 2012 · KARA Reporting
From Child Welfare In The News
AZ: Money for foster care in Arizona could be cut by more than half ABC15.com April 18, 2012 The Chandler couple doesn’t understand why state lawmakers would even consider a 60 percent cut to Child Protective Services. U
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April 18, 2010 · KARA Reporting
This Weeks Important At Risk Youth News
This is a compilation of recent news that reflects the conditions of youth and youth policy in the U.S. this past few weeks. Thank you Jamie Wilt and Century College for your hard work and good programs.
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February 26, 2010 · KARA Reporting
Acting Like A Responsible Adult
America's aging population is retreating into retirement with its pensions and savings and leaving young families with failing schools, health systems, and communities.
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February 9, 2010 · KARA Reporting
Keeping At-Risk Students In High School
Today, many states are increasing their percentage of spending on juvenile justice and criminal justice while maintaining or reducing spending on education. New York and California have been spending about $250,000 per y
California · Minnesota · New York · North Carolina · Texas
January 8, 2010 · KARA Reporting
Growing Up In America
One of my guardian ad-Litem youth walked home for many hours on a below zero Minnesota night without a coat because of the abuse he received at a juvenile detention center. He had had enough troubles for a lifetime befor
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