Abuse Is Underreported
On March - 19 - 2011
The Las Lomas junior was a seventh grader at Walnut Creek Intermediate when her father beat her savagely. “He whipped me with a belt,” she said. She asked that her name not be used. “My foot got tangled in an extension cord so he whipped me with that. It started to get stuck into my leg and my arms and my back and I still have marks from it. I was mostly screaming the whole time, so I couldn’t really cry. I told him I was bleeding and he was like, ‘You’ll live.’ It lasted for a very long time.”
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---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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Misty Barker Says:
I really think that this is wrong why would you have brought a baby in this world and then you abuse them.. It’s not right, why dont you treat your baby’s the way you want to be treated..
Posted on March 24th, 2011 at 2:05 pm