Victims of Child Abuse

How Many Children Die Each Year From Child Abuse or Neglect?

The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) reported an estimated 1,530 child fatalities in 2006 (the latest year when numbers are available). This translates to a rate of 2.04 children per 100,000 children in the general population. Or, think of it another way -- that's 4 kids that die each and every day.

NCANDS defines "child fatality" as the death of a child caused by an injury resulting from abuse or neglect, or where abuse or neglect was a contributing factor -- that's too many!

In the first two years of the Iraq War, we lost 1,500 soldiers!

The rate of child abuse and neglect fatalities reported by NCANDS has varied slightly during the last several years beginning with a rate of 1.96 per 100,000 in 2001, increasing to 1.98 in 2002, 2.00 in 2003, 2.03 in 2004, decreasing back to 1.96 in 2005, and increasing to 2.04 in 2006.

Many researchers and practitioners believe child fatalities due to abuse and neglect are still underreported. Studies in Colorado and North Carolina have estimated that as many as 50 to 60 percent of child deaths resulting from abuse or neglect are not recorded as such.

How many more have to go before we wake up?

Help us help them ... we're taking donations (in any amount) to provide legal fees for children in abusive situations to "get them out of harms way".

Now taking donations to help cover legal fees for children that are in harms way at:
http://www.standinginthegapresources.com/