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Definition: Child Abuse
Child abuse is the physical, sexual, and emotional
mistreatment or neglect of a
child.
Statistics:• Four children in the United States
die each day as a result of child abuse and neglect.
• Nearly 80% of children die as a result of abuse are younger than
five years old. • In 2008, child protective services
in the United States received 3.3 million reports of child abuse and
neglect.• Most children who suffer abuse or
neglect suffer at the hands of some one they know (parent,
guardian, or family friend)
Examples of Child Abuse
In 2003, Kaia Jackson was convicted of child abuse involving her son Jonathon over a
two-year period in Tulsa Oklahoma. In 2001, Jonathon told a forensic interviewer what
life was like in his house. According to court documents, Jonathon blamed his parents
for beating him regularly with “big boards, extension cords, belts and cable wires.”
Famous People AffectedOprah Winfrey was raped at age 9 and this continued and she became
pregnant through rape in her family at age 14. She gave birth to the child but the baby died.
Mo'nique who played the mother of 'Precious'' was raped and sexually abused by her own brother when she was a young girl over a period of
several years.Sinead O'Connor was physically abused in her childhood. Not raped
buy physically abused.Marilyn Monroe who committed suicide at age 36 in 1962 was raped
when she was 14.Faye Dunaway was raped when she was in her late teens.Michael Jackson abuse through his father. Physical abuse.
Actress Teri Hatcher of ''desperate housewives'' raped when she was a child
Queen Latifah - sexually abused by family members when she was a child.
Fran Drescher raped at gunpoint in 1985.
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