Summary: Child Abuse Detective

The facts are that each year 160,000 children suffer severe or life-threatening injury and 1,000 to 2,000 children die as a result of abuse. Of these deaths, 80 percent involve children younger than five years of age, and 40 percent involve children younger than one year of age. One out of every 20-murder victim is a child. Murder is the fourth leading cause of death in children from one to four years of age and the third leading cause of death in children from five to fourteen years of age.

Published case reviews draw special attention on the professionals lack of knowledge and confidence when assessing risk in children coming from various religions and cultural backgrounds. A lack of understanding of these two key components, might put at significant risk the children's welfare, leading professionals to overlook certain situations and to offer inadequate support or lower standards of care (NSPCC, 2017).

This was a child abuse case where a Dodge County father and the live-in girlfriend he

It is important to remember that if the professionals involved decide to investigate the matter when a suspected case of child abuse has been reported by the practitioner; then the practitioner’s records will be vital evidence and, as such, must be accurate. It may be many months after the event has taken place when the practitioner is

Pediatricians must recognize and respond to pediatric abusive head trauma, no matter how subtle the signs may be, in order to prevent further neurological injury. The appropriate reports must be made to child welfare services and law enforcement in order to make arrangements for the future safety of the child and deal with the legal ramifications of the abuser.

Health professionals, in particular GPs and doctors in emergency departments, may examine children with injuries which they suspect may be non-accidental. They have a duty to alert children’s social care when abuse is

Found all over the world, in every social economic class, child abuse is still present even though its terms and definitions have changed over the years. Child abuse is rarely reported by the kids or parents, but by responsible adults in authority over the victim. The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke reflects the issue of child abuse, by portraying a young child’s attempt to normalize an abusive situation. Survival mechanisms used by children in abusive situations make discovery and treatment of abuse difficult. Abuse treatment demands early identification and reporting of possible victims. Education is the primary way to ensure effective, prompt reporting by required individuals. The law requires certain people to report potential abusive situations, but child abuse can and should be reported by any individual that suspects it. In order to reduce the statistic of child abuse, any person with authority over children must be educated and become proactive in reporting.

There are so many ways that children are abused in the world. Since 1980 abuse and neglect has increased 134% in America. Kingsolver portrays sexual and physical abuse the most in her story. Her character Turtle is a 2-3 year old child who experiences both the physical and sexual abuse in the first few years of her life. Taylor, Turtle’s new guardian takes Turtle to the doctor and finds out just a bit of Turtle’s past. Turtle has “healed fractures, some of them compound”(Kingsolver 165), along with “spiral fibular fractures here and excellent healing and some contraindications for physchomotor development” (Kingsolver 166). These are just a few things that are found in children who have experienced physical and sexual abuse. Emotional abuse occurs in children the most. “Unlike physical or sexual abuse, where a single incident constitutes abuse, emotional abuse is made up of a series of incidents, or a pattern of

Child Maltreatment continues to be a pressing issue throughout the United States. Over the years many children are victims of some type of maltreatment which in some cases can lead to fatalities. Maltreatment can have a negative impact on children and can leave numerous physical and psychological scars affecting the child’s adjustment not only at the time of abuse, but also into their young

about the traumas some children face, stories of victims, and doctors who have work with

The maltreatment of children with disabilities is a devastating public health issue that needs to be addressed in a deeper context. The current data on the incidence and prevalence of maltreatment in this population is greatly limited due to fluctuating definitions of disability and the lack of uniform methods of classifying maltreatment, so prevalence is likely greatly underestimated. When abused, children with disabilities have a higher likelihood of being seriously injured or the abuse could lead to a fatality. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services(HHS), in 2015, 1,670 children died from maltreatment (U.S., 2017). Including children with disabilities, the younger a child the more vulnerable they are to death as the result of child maltreatment. Having said that, seventy-five percent of all child abuse fatalities were younger than 3 years old. In 2015, according HHS, children who were less than 1 year old died from abuse at a rate of 20.91 per 100,000 children in the population of children younger than 1 year old (U.S., 2017).

In the cases of inflicted brain trauma, abuse can sometimes be difficult to diagnose because the baby may not have any external marks, other than bruises on chest and extremities from where the infant was held (Lyden, 2011). Researchers say that retinal hemorrhages in infant’s eyes should be considered as signs of abuse until proven otherwise, although they acknowledge that retinal bleeding in infants can be caused by other conditions, those conditions can be ruled out through history, physical exam, and labs (Lyden, 2011).

INTRODUCTION: “Child Abuse occurs when a parent or a care taker physically, emotionally, or sexually mistreats or neglects a child resulting in the physical, emotional, or sexual harm or imminent risk of harm or exploitation, or in extreme cases the death of a child,” child abuse is a big deal because in today’s society many children face abuse, there are many effects and reasons as to why a child may be abuse.

Many researchers believe that statistics based on official reports do not accurately reflect the prevalence of child abuse. Definitions of maltreatment vary from state to state and among agencies, making such statistics unreliable. Professionals who interact with children—such as teachers, day-care workers, pediatricians, and police officers—may fail to recognize or report abuse. In addition, acts of abuse usually occur in the privacy of a family’s home and often go unreported. Surveys of families, another way of estimating abuse, indicate that 2.3 percent of children in the United States—or about 1.5 million children—experience abusive violence each