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Fund set up to help injured Salem children

By Kathy McCabe

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 25, 2012

The Salem Children’s Charity has established a special fund to help Jamaal and Erica Goodwin, whose mother is accused of slashing their throats and dousing them with lighter fluid before setting their apartment on fire on March 18. The childen, ages 8 and 3, are recovering from their wounds at Children’s Hospital Boston. Jamaal, a first-grader at Witchcraft Heights Elementary School, is still in critical condition, Principal Mark Higgins said, but Erica is alert and talking.

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