Child Abuse

Child Abuse

What is physical abuse?

Physical abuse is caused by punching, beating, kicking, shaking, biting, burning or throwing a child. Injuries to the child might have bruising, burns, welts or bite marks, major fractures of the long bones or skull, to its most extreme form, the death of a child.

What is child abuse?

Child abuse is when an adult smacks you or spanks you for doing the wrong thing but child abuse isn’t the right thing to do. Child abuse is just not physical abuse only you can abuse your child in different ways such as emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexually abuse

What is emotional abuse?

Emotional abuse happens when a child’s emotional, psychological or social well-being and sense of worth is continually battered.

It can include a pattern of criticising, rejecting, degrading, ignoring, isolating, corrupting, exploiting and terrorising a child. It may result from exposure to family violence or involvement in illegal or antisocial activities.

What is sexual abuse?

Sexual abuse includes acts or behaviours where an adult, older or more powerful person uses a child for a sexual purpose. While it may involve a stranger, most sexual abuse is perpetrated by someone the child knows and trusts.

It includes, any touching for sexual purpose, fondling of breasts, buttocks, genitals, oral sex, sexual intercourse, an adult exposing themselves to the child, or seeking to have a child touch them for a sexual purpose. It also includes voyeurism, photographing children inappropriately, involving the child in pornographic activities or prostitution or using the internet and phone to initiate sexual conversations with children.