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Lance Bandley reportingThe number of children dying from abuse is not going down, so advocates are hoping to create awareness using a "Healing Field."
A West Jordan soccer complex will change from green to red, white and blue.
Renee Sorenson: "They will be posting fourteen hundred U.S. flags representing the children who lost their life through child abuse every year."
Renee Sorenson with Prevent Child Abuse says there will be 44 blue ribbon flags remembering the 44 children who have died in Utah the last 5 years.
Renee Sorenson: "They're too small to call and ask for help, quite often, they don't even know that they need it because this is all that they know. This is normal life for them."
Sorenson says last year 10 children died in Utah from abuse from their parents or a care giver.
