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Oklahoma child abuse law disproportionately penalizes women

An Oklahoma law stipulates that any parent or guardian who knows a child is being abused and does nothing to stop it can be charged with a felony. But a 60 Minutes investigation found that fifteen women who were never found to have abused their children have received harsher punishments than the man who did. Sharyn Alfonsi reports.
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