Home for abused children to open

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - Child advocates are preparing to open a new home where children can go for help after they are sexually assaulted or physically abused.

The 5,000-square-foot house set to open in Foxborough in October is one of 11 child advocacy centers in Massachusetts and about 700 across the country.

The treatment centers are places where police, medical and mental health professionals meet to try to ease the emotional stress for abused children. Instead of having to go through five or six different interviews, children are interviewed once in a homelike setting.

The Norfolk Advocates for Children home is overseen by Norfolk County District Attorney William Keating, who has been working to put all the services under one child-friendly roof since 1999.