Source D
Ford, Raymond. Assaulting Innocence. Penguin: Anchorage, 2010. Print.
Ford, Raymond. Assaulting Innocence. Penguin: Anchorage, 2010. Print.
The
following paragraph is from a book about crimes with children as their target.
During 2003, 60.9
percent of victims experienced neglect, 28.8 percent were physically abused,
4.9 percent were emotionally or psychologically maltreated, and 2.3 percent
were medically neglected.4 In addition,
16.9 percent of victims experienced such "other" types of
maltreatment as "abandonment," "threats of harm to the
child," and "congenital drug addiction." States may code any
maltreatment type that does not fall into one of the main categories—physical
abuse, neglect, medical neglect, sexual abuse, and psychological or emotional maltreatment—as
"other." These maltreatment type percentages total more than 100
percent because children who were victims of more than one type of maltreatment
were counted for each maltreatment.