Commitment To Children
As DA, Rubio in 1995 created the Children's Coalition, which led to the establishment of a permanent Lamar Bruni Vergara Child Advocacy Center. Prior to that time, little was done in regard to child-abuse reports received by local law enforcement officials. According to Sylvia Bruni, a former Laredo Independent School District superintendent who heads the advocacy center, there had been no organized approach to investigating and prosecuting such cases.
Rubio explained the purpose of the center: "It reduces trauma to the child. . . . Instead of having the child bouncing between the police department and the hospital, they can go to one place" to receive counseling and be interviewed by police and prosecutors. Bruni said that Rubio "recognized the need and did something about it. A lot of us saw a problem but didn't act. Rubio did."
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