Lucas County Children Services, executive director Dean Sparks says his office has never had any contact with the family. He says CSB has seen an increase in physical abuse, so far this year they've had 883 cases.

."Children are at much more risk from people that they know and trust and ought to be able to know and trust"

Sparks says parents need to recognize the warning signs. "The kind of folk that when they say jump you're suppose to say how high. They can't delay any gratification they also then can't deal with frustration"

He says 50 percent of the cases that come across his desk the abuser is the mother's boyfriend. "I've said numerous times even more loudly each time that if you got a man in your life and he's hurting you he's probably going to hurt your kid so get him out."