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Updated: 10:16 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2008 | Posted: 9:36 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Room For Abused Children Opens In Blair County

ALTOONA, Pa. —

One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18. It happens across Pennsylvania and in the Alleghenies. However, in Blair County there is finally a safe place for victims of sexual and domestic abuse to go.

The new Meghan Blair Memorial Room has opened at Family Services in Altoona. It is full of bright colors and crafts to help children and teens relax and open up, to talk to counselors about their emotions. And because children often blame themselves for abuse, there are games to help build self-esteem on new laptop computers.

Seventeen victims of abuse are already enrolled in the kids' group that meets in the room and 11 victims are in the teen group.

The room has been dedicated to Meghan Blair, who died in a swimming pool in 2003. She was 2 years old. Her grandmother, Judy Blair, said she wasn't a victim of domestic or sexual violence but now their memories of her will be helping other kids.

The Ronald McDonald House and the Blair family donated more than $10,000 to the room.

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