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What
is Child Abuse?
Physical-Sexual-Emotional
A 1996 national survey reported that physical abuse represented 60%
neglect, 23% of confirmed cases, 9% sexual abuse, , 4% emotional abuse
and other forms of maltreatment accounted for 5% of confirmed cases.
This breakdown translates similarly in Wyoming.
Each year in this country more than
three million children are reported as suspected victims of abuse or
neglect. More than 7,500 of them live in Wyoming. That's one in every 15
Wyoming children.
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Child
abuse is injury to a child for which there is no "reasonable" answer.
It can be a one-time occurrence, but more often child abuse is a
pattern of behavior involving nonaccidental physical injury, neglect,
sexual molestation and emotional abuse. Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA)
defines child abuse as a nonaccidental injury or pattern of injuries
to a child.
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A 1996
national survey reported that physical abuse represented 23%
of confirmed cases, 9% sexual abuse, 60% neglect, 4% emotional
abuse and other forms of maltreatment accounted for 5% of
confirmed cases. This breakdown translates similarly in
Wyoming.
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Each year in
this country more than three million children are reported as
suspected victims of abuse or neglect. More than 1,000 of them
live in Wyoming. That's one in every 85 Wyoming children.
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It is
estimated that a minimum of 1,200 children die in this country
each year due to physical abuse or neglect. That's three
children each day! 45% of these deaths occur as a result of
neglect, 52% from physical abuse and 3% from a combination of
neglectful and physically abusive parenting.
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Between 1984
and 2000 an average of three Wyoming children died each year
as a result of child abuse or neglect. In 1997, Wyoming lost
seven children to abuse or neglect.
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77% of all
child abuse and neglect deaths occur in children under the age
of 5 and 45% of all deaths are children under one year old.
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