Few Facts on Child Abuse

Few Facts on Child Abuse

• 77 cases of child abuse are made each hour.¹
• 679,000 child victims of abuse and neglect found each year.¹
  (At the rate of 9.1 victims per 1,000 children in the U.S.)
• Four children approximately die every day as a result of child abuse.²
• Per year 1,520 children die of abuse and neglect in the U.S. ¹
  (2.04 children per 100,000 approximately die of abuse and neglect per year.)
• Three-quarters (73.9%) of all child fatalities were younger than 3 years.¹
• Near about 50-60% of child fatalities due to maltreatment never got recorded as such on death certificates. ⁴
• It is shocking that the highest rates of child abuse occur under the age of one (23.1 per 1,000 children).¹
• Approximately one-quarter (27.3%) of victims were under the age of 3 years. ¹
• Approximately 70% of children that are victims of child abuse are under the age of four.²
• Above  90% of juvenile sexual abuse victims know their perpetrator.⁵
• It is shocking that child abuse occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all religions and at all levels of education.¹
• Approximately 80% of victims were neglected.¹
• Approximately 18% suffered physical abuse.¹
• Approximately 9% faced sexual abuse.¹
• Approximately 8.7% were psychologically maltreated.¹

References & Sources:

[1]          http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/cm2013.pdf

[2]          http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/research-data-technology/statistics-research/child-maltreatment

[4]          http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/fatality.pdf

[5]          http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/saycrle.pdf