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title: Raising a SHIELD for child victims
description: Liberty University's alumni journal profiled Robert's path from law school to prosecuting child abuse cases in West Virginia and co-founding the SHIELD Tas
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# Raising a SHIELD for child victims

 Posted by Robert J. Peters on  Jun 12, 2019

Liberty University's alumni journal profiled Robert's path from law school to prosecuting child abuse cases in West Virginia and co-founding the SHIELD Task Force, whose name is also a nod to Captain America.

[Read at the Liberty Journal](https://www.liberty.edu/journal/article/raising-a-shield-for-child-victims/)

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