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Child
Fatalities: Did you know?
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Head trauma and shaken baby syndrome are the two most
common causes of child abuse and neglect deaths.
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Children at highest risk are infants age one and
under.
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A child fatality typically is the only or youngest
child.
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Child abuse death rates are similar in urban and
rural settings.
Children also die
from intentional gunshot wounds, drowning and suffocation.
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