Abuse and neglect not being reported

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says his office is investigating whether schools in the state have broken laws requiring the reporting of child abuse and neglect to authorities.

Blumenthal says the investigation is an expansion of one that began three years ago into whether Southington school officials delayed reporting abuse allegations against a girls' middle school basketball coach for more than a year.

The attorney general declined to identify the other schools now under investigation. He says he expects the probe to end in a few months with recommendations on how to improve schools' reporting of abuse and neglect.

The Southington coach, James McCoy, was sentenced to 60 days in prison in 2005 for misdemeanor sexual assault.