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Abuse and Neglect
ABUSE: Abuse includes:
- Physical Injury other than accidental means
- Beatings
- Cutting
- Burns
- Broken Bones
- Multiple Bruises
- Injury In Areas where Children are not normally harmed
- Neck
- Back
- Back of the legs
- Face / head
- Mental Injury
- Constant verbal abuse
- Humiliating acts
- Deprecating acts
- Emotional injury
- Constant verbal abuse
- Humiliating acts
- Deprecating acts
- Physical dependency on an addictive drug at birth
- Any sexual act against another person either by force, or by threat of force or bodily injury, or against the person's will. This includes:
- A sexual act against another person who is incapable of giving consent either because of her/his temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity.
- Because he/she is a minor.
- Such crimes as constitute a sexual assault:
- Indecent assault
- Battery,
- Rape,
- Rape with force,
- Rape and abuse,
- Assault with intent to rape
- Unnatural and lascivious acts
Indecent assault and battery includes, but is not limited to, inappropriate and unwanted touching of private body parts. A person under the age of 14 is legally unable to consent to this type of sexual activity.
NEGLECT:
Neglect is deemed to exist when the person or persons responsible for a child's care, although financially able to do so, fail to provide the child with:
- Adequate food
- Clothing
- Shelter
- Education
- Medical care
- Emotional Stability
- Proper supervision and/or guardianship
- The child is unsupervised
- The child is left with siblings not of the proper age to supervise
Child Injury / Child Abuse in Massachusetts
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