Preventing Child Abuse

Why is Child Abuse not acceptable? They form a mental barrier which they find hard to overcome. They find it difficult to place their trust on anyone. They are left with wounds that will never heal. They find it hard to fit in with other people.

What can you do? Take part in fundraising events for charities. Communicate with children who suffer abuse or have suffered it. Always be there for them. Make them meet new people and to make friends.

Severely tortured toddlers mom and her boyfriend arrested The mother of a 17 month old toddler severely burned and beaten was arrested today on one count of child neglect. Marlita S. Stokes, 23, was at work when her boyfriend Darlanne Toussaint, 24, used his fist to smash the 17-month-old’s chest and back, and a blow dryer to burn the child’s skin. The boy who suffered second-degree burns on his genitals, back, chest and head, is in stable condition at Florida Hospital Orlando this morning. Toussaint was baby-sitting girlfriend Marlita Stokes’ two children at the couple’s home in the 1900 block of Nicole Lee Circle when the incident occurred Thursday morning the other child was not hurt.

Statistics A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds More than four children die every day as a result of child abuse. It is estimated that between 50-60% of child fatalities due to maltreatment are not recorded as such on death certificates. Approximately 80% of children that die from abuse are under the age of 4. More than 90% of juvenile sexual abuse victims know their perpetrator in some way. Child abuse occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all religions and at all levels of education. About 30% of abused and neglected children will later abuse their own children, continuing the horrible cycle of abuse. About 80% of 21 year olds that were abused as children met criteria for at least one psychological disorder. The estimated annual cost of child abuse and neglect in the United States for 2008 is $124 billion.

Statistics Police recorded over 23,000 sex offences against children aged under 18 years in England and Wales between April 2012 and March 2013. More than one in three children, 34%, who experienced contact sexual abuse by an adult did not tell anyone else about it. Four out of five children, 82.7%, who experienced contact sexual abuse from a peer did not tell anyone else about it. On average, every week in the UK at least one child is killed at the hands of another person. Neglect is the most common reason for a child to be the subject of a child protection plan or on a child protection register in the UK. Neglect was a factor in 60 per cent of the 139 serious case reviews (where a child died or was seriously injured) published in England between 2009 and 2011. Children under one are more at risk of being killed at the hands of another person than any other age group in England and Wales. Between 2010/11 and 2011/12 nearly 26 million child abuse images were confiscated by the police.

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