(Wayne County, IN)--Although the numbers don’t likely reflect the impact of Covid-19 either positively or negatively, the cases of substantiated Wayne County child abuse are up for the first quarter of this year. Through the end of March, there had been 95 substantiated cases of child abuse or neglect locally. That’s an average of more than one new case per day, and it represents a 16% increase over the same time period last year.