Wince of the Week, January 20-26, 2013. The EHRP team was outraged when we read this- excerpted from the Children’s Defense Fund’s The State of America’s Children 2012 Handbook:
A child is abused or neglected every 47 seconds. Of all child maltreatment victims:
• 78.6 percent are victims of neglect
• 17.5 percent are victims of physical abuse
• 9.3 percent are victims of sexual abuse
• 7.5 percent are victims of psychological maltreatment
• 2.3 percent are victims of medical neglect
• 10.5 percent are victims of other or unknown types of maltreatment (see Table 28)
*Infants and toddlers are the most likely age group to be victims of maltreatment.45
* Nearly 40 percent of child maltreatment victims receive no services after the investigation-excerpted from The State of America’s Children 2012 Handbook p.43
