National Crime Victims’ Rights Week

April 21-April 27, 2013 is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.

A listing of landmarks in victims’ rights legislations can be found here.

Charts of Crime Rates can be found on page 81-82 of this large pdf
Page 88 of that same pdf gives Child statistics as follows:

• “In 2010, child protective services found approximately 754,000 children were victims of maltreatment (abuse and neglect). Children ages 0 to 3 years account for 34 percent of child maltreatment victims. Parents are the perpetrators of child maltreatment in 81 percent of the cases.
• During 2010, 62 percent of child maltreatment victims experienced neglect, 14 percent were physically abused, 7 percent were sexually abused, 6 percent were psychologically maltreated, and 2 percent were medically neglected. In addition, 8 percent of child victims experienced other types of maltreatment.
• In 2010, an estimated 1,560 children died as a result of maltreatment. Forty-eight percent of these children were under a year old. Seventy-nine percent of child fatalities were caused by the child’s parents, and 29 percent of fatalities were caused by the mother alone.”

24-hour Childhelp hotline: 1-800-4-A-CHILD or 1-800-422-4453.

Directory of Crime Victim Services: http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/findvictimservices/

National Human Trafficking Resource Center 24-hour Hotline at 1-888-3737-888 (remember that trafficking for adoption is not considered a crime in the US)

Do you know the warning signs of child sexual abuse and how adults can help? Find out more at www.stopitnow.org .

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