Beyonce Walton
English 1102
Final research paper rough draft
Dr. Navare
April 18th, 2020
Abuse and Covid-19
Abuse is to treat a person or animal with cruelty or violence, especially regularly or repeatedly. Abuse is something that happens on a regular basis and when the abuser starts going it is hard for them to stop because now this is how they get their anger out, putting their hands on someone beating them badly. The four main types of abuse are Physical abuse, Sexual child abuse, Neglect, and Emotional abuse. In the United States annually there are 700 thousand cases who are abused on a day to day basis. In 2015 approximately 1,670 kids died from abuse and or neglect in the United states. More than 50% are kids of the age of 18 and older. 90% of alleged abusers are related in some way to the victim.
When most people go through abuse they don’t tell anyone to try to get help. They just let it keep going and praying and hoping that it will get better and eventually stop. In the United states only 2.9 million cases are reported but yet not many get to go to court and get the abuser off the street. In this case for kids who are being abused physically there get away from it is school, and when it gets brought to the teachers attention that the child is coming to school with very traumatic bruises they have to file a dcfs report for someone to go into that home to see what’s really going on and also how long have this been going on. Send a social worker out and have the exam the bruises and see how they can help this child, either they need to get them out of the home and put them into foster care or have them go stay with another relative.
