Experts are concerned that the U.S. will see an alarming spike in the overall number of children being abused.
This is thought to be partially due to the development associated with their age , but it also stems from a lack of outward advocacy and intervention that places like schools, churches, and extracurricular activities provide.
“People are waiting until these children have stopped breathing or something extremely serious before they’re coming into the emergency departments,” Leigh Vinocur, a spokeswoman for the American College of Emergency Physicians, tells“When there’s more reporting, we can pick up injuries that are more minor. Now we’re relying on parents who have injured their child to bring them in.”
This is expected with all forms of abuse, but sexual abuse is thought to be one of the more inescapable forms for children during this pandemic. With roughlybeing sexually abused before the age of 18, and most of their abusers being someone in the family or close to the family, we could see an increase in sexual abuse cases later on, particularly if the abuser is the breadwinner of the family and currently without a job.
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