Victoria’s Abuse Stats Alarming
On January - 20 - 2012
CHILD abuse appears to have reached alarming new levels in Victoria.
In 2010-11, 1000 more children were identified as victims than in the previous year. Protection services have seen a 15 per cent rise in children reported to them, while cases of abuse and neglect have hit the highest level in six years. Victoria has bucked a national trend of a 13 per cent drop in notifications, and stable numbers of substantiated cases, according to the latest Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report. 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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