Father Convicted of Neglect
On March - 18 - 2013
A Wisconsin man accused of starving and torturing his teenage daughter was convicted of child neglect late Friday, but the jury deadlocked on several other charges in what one juror described as ‘a very tough case for all of us to even sit through.’ Prosecutors said the man denied food to his daughter, who weighed just 68 pounds when she fled her family’s home in Madison last year, and subjected her to years of physical abuse. Defense attorneys said the now 16-year-old girl suffered from mental illness and that her father had tried get her treatment. READ MORE HERE
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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