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Child Guidance Center Changes Name of Sexual Abuse Response Team

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The Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut (CGC) changed the name of their Sexual Abuse Response Team (SART) to the Child Advocacy Center (CAC). The CAC is overseen by CGC’s Director of Victim Services (formerly known as the SART Program Director), Setta Mushegian, MSW. The CAC is a child-friendly, neutral environment in which youth who have experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse, and/or neglect are interviewed for forensic purposes and are connected with mental health, advocacy, and medical services. ____________

— an announcement from the Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut

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The CAC oversees its Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) which is composed of local law enforcement, the State’s Attorneys Office, medical personnel, Juvenile and Adult Probation, mental health professionals, forensic interviewers, and victim advocates. The MDT meets regularly to ensure that they are working in concert so that victims receive timely support and perpetrators are held accountable.

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Darien Police Headquarters

Stolen Credit Card Numbers Used to Bilk Online Darien Toy Store

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Tegu.com, an on-line store that sells wooden blocks with magnets in them and other toys, reported to police that stolen credit cards had been used to buy items priced at a total of $55,637.73, and most of it had already been delivered. The transactions with the business, located at 5 Tokeneke Road, took place over the last few months and in each case they were delivered to various addresses in Montreal. At some point, the store’s computer program alerted the business to the same credit card numbers in transactions linked to different email addresses. The business stopped the pending transactions, but not before $38,560 had already been delivered. The police department in Montreal has been notified, and at the time of the report to Darien police, fraudulent orders were still coming into the website.