In a report to the Box Elder County Commission earlier this month, Box Elder County Victim Services Director Cheryl Burgan said case numbers handled by her office have been dramatically increasing. In the first quarter of 2022, Burgan reported that her office aided 261 victims of crimes, with 97 of those cases being new. This year, over the same time, there were 429 victims that her office helped, with 154 of those being new cases, an increase of 60% in caseload work and 62% in new crimes. That trend continued through the second quarter, with 281 total victims in 2021,...

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